The museum grew from the Heinrich Weiss collection of cylinder music boxes, disc music players, musical timepieces and mechanical automatons – one of the largest in the world. Switzerland has a 200-year

meadow’ where the factory was built. The logo of an hourglass with wings was created in 1889. The museum in the factory was refurbished in 2012 and presents modern and elegant displays of watches, models

moving to New York, but subsequently returned to settle in Riggisberg. The foundation opened a textile museum in 1967. The collection ranges from the fourth century BC to circa 1800 and includes fabrics from [...] library. The former home of Werner Abegg and his American wife, Margaret, was adapted as part of the museum complex in 2000.

The museum at Ballenberg lies 6 km east of the town of Brienz with which it is linked by a regular bus service. It is a typical open air museum following the pattern set by Artur Hazelius at Skansen, Stockholm [...] animals live in the museum, including examples of all the native Swiss farm animals, and indigenous plants are carefully tended in the gardens. Visitors can view the outer parts of the museum from a horse-drawn [...] eighteen buildings in 1978, and now extends over 66 ha with 100 buildings and other structures. The museum’s objective is to include rural buildings from all parts of Switzerland but in practice most come

Roberto Niedereeer (1928-88), and now employs about 100 workers. Integrated with the glassworks is the ‘museum formed by fire’, which has sophisticated multi-media displays illustrating the history of glassmaking

Its collection of historically important objects began in 1972 and an exhibition opened 1978. The museum is located on Dübendorf air force base and has expanded and developed over 40 years. Its main building

include miners’ tools, maps and surveys and a notable collection of minerals. On ‘museum nights’, in which all the museums in Davos are involved, visitors are able to extract concentrate from iron ore by [...] Grisons in the nineteenth century, and the history of mining in the region is commemorated in the museum at Schmelzboden, 4 km south-west of Davos, which is situated in the early nineteenth century headquarters

30 km north of Oporto, where cotton manufacture was important from the mid-nineteenth century. The museum, established in 1989, is located in a nineteenth-century textile warehouse, tells the story of the [...] and twentieth centuries includes examples from England, France, Spain and the United States. The museum also organises visits to local textile enterprises that are still operating.

eighteenth century blast furnace at Chapa Cunha were excavated in 1983, and two years later the iron museum was established in a new building by the ironworking company Ferrominas EP. It illustrates the history [...] including several large pairs of bellows, and by the display of works of art featuring ironmaking. The museum also serves as the starting point for trails guiding visitors to the archaeological remains of ironworks

Municipal Ecomuseum, but that at Corroios which dates from the fifteenth century has been open as a museum since 1986. The displays illustrate the principles of operation of a tide mill, the operations of

traditional wooden vessels used on the Tagus, and trips on the river are amongst the museum’s activities. The museum is a member of European Maritime Heritage, which promotes the operation of traditional [...] The maritime museum at Seixal keeps alive Portugal’s ancient traditions of wooden ship-building. Seixal is the centre of a heavily industrialised region at the mouth of the River Tagus, 14 km south of [...] industries, the monuments of several of which are preserved by the Municipal Ecomuseum. The maritime museum practices and teaches the techniques used in building and repairing wooden ships, with a particular

commemorate the whaling industry in a museum in the 1960s and a temporary museum was opened in 1979. The history of the museum is now covered in two museums. The Museum of the Whaling Industry in the village [...] the exterior of the building is a sculptor of a whaler with a harpoon in a small boat. The Whaler’s Museum (Rua de Baleeiros 13; 9930-143 Lajes de Pico) in the village of Lajes is located in a set of three

The historical importance of this museum derives as much from its building as its exhibits. The Alfâmdega building dates from 1860, and was the customs house for Oporto, situated alongside the River Douro

substituted, and only short sections employing not more than four tramcars remain in use. The tramcar museum opened in 1915 in a former company power station. The collection of more than 20 tramcars includes

The museum was created in 1968 and opened in its new location on the military airfield of Granja do Marquês in 2009. It has 42 aeroplanes and helicopters. The visitor journey leads through four historic [...] shows the company TAP (Portuguese Air Transport) since its foundation in 1945. Something rare in air museums is the display about airports, which includes the original model of Lisbon airport from 1942 and

The Lagar de Varas do Fojo, a building where oil was extracted and processed, has been adapted as a museum. The building, of stone and brick construction, with particularly notable tiled floors, dates from

was operating in four continents and had 15 of its own brands. The Ramirez 1853 Centre includes a museum that provides a comprehensive picture of the Portuguese fish canning industry. Its larger exhibits

La Fonderie is the Museum of Industry and Labour for Brussels as a leading industrial city. It is in the Molenbeek area, known as ‘the Belgian Manchester’. The museum uses the foundry buildings of the [...] manufacturing and hat making. They look at technology, business, working conditions and trade. The museum provides guided tours of the industrial heritage of Brussels on foot and by boat on the Willebroek

The Autoworld museum displays about 200 hundred historic motor cars in one of the Cinquantenaire exhibition halls built for the exhibition of 1880 that commemorated the 50th anniversary of the establishment

have long been celebrated for the quality of their products, and their skills are celebrated in this museum in the centre of Bruges. It is located in the Maison de Croon, a four-storey brick building of 1480 [...] Philippines. Particular emphasis is placed on the development of the chocolate industry in Belgium. The museum’s methods of interpretation include documentary films, demonstrations and tastings, and there is also