The Gueuze museum provides an unusual opportunity to see beer brewed in a traditional way on an industrial scale. The museum is a fully-operational brewery, worked by the Van Roy-Cantillon family whose

The enterprise closed in 1847 but was revived in 1992 by Tiiu and Jüri Valdma and their family. The museum, in a limestone building of 1841 that was originally the hay barn of Vaernla manor, displays a range

second largest city, the seat of an ancient university and the location of the country’s agricultural museum which is based in the outbuildings of a substantial mansion called Ülenume Manor. Displays reflect [...] while another shows red ware pottery from Muhu island. A blacksmith demonstrates his craft in the museum and there is a working windmill. There are collections of steam traction and portable engines, and

freight wagons, is reckoned to be one of the largest in Europe. Visitors can travel on a museum train and the museum has established a modest presence in the city of Parnu where a locomotive and other vehicles [...] km. The narrow gauge lines were closed and dismantled under Soviet rule in 1959-75, but in 1987 a museum was established at a former peat railway depot of 1922 at Lavassaare, 17 km north-west of Parnu.

Dairy Museum was founded in 1976, when Estonia was still part of the USSR, but it was not opened until 2001. It is located in a dairy established by Joint Dairy Society of Estonia in 1938. The museum receives

The principal importance of the car museum, founded by Peeter Kalli, is its comprehensive collection of cars used in Estonia in the Soviet era, relics of the huge car industry of the USSR that has either

services ceased in 1995, but the remarkable railway station is the setting for the national railway museum. It was built in 1907 for an intended visit of the Tsar that never actually took place. The cream [...] to be the longest in Europe, and its red-painted canopy is ornamented with gilded carvings. The museum’s collection consists of a variety of diesel and steam locomotives, one of them a twin-domed 2-6-2

Typorama is a museum of the printing industry managed by the Typorama Foundation established in 2011 and largely run by volunteers. The hand-setting of type is demonstrated, and the museum houses a collection

construction in 2019. It also contains the Planet Swatch museum. The Omega museum begins with the watchmaker’s bench where Louis Brandt started his business in 1848. It shows important watches in the brand’s [...] The museum of Omega watches is part of the Cité du Temps, which is the main building of the Swatch Group. The building was designed by the Japanese architect Shigeru Ban using curvaceous timber construction [...] posters and signs shown alonside films and interactive displays. Originally created in 1983, the museum is the oldest dedicated to the history of a single watch brand. In the new building it has been

The Communications Museum has wide-ranging displays that illustrate most of the ways in which people have exchanged ideas, from body language to the Internet, with the emphasis on people’s experiences [...] Swiss radio and television broadcasts are available on a database and can be heard or viewed in the museum. The impact of computers is illustrated in a gallery called ‘As Time goes Byte’.

in Basle was converted to make paper in 1453, continued to do so until 1955, and was adapted as a museum in the 1970s. Its displays provide a comprehensive picture of the development of paper making and [...] g machines used from the late 19th century until the end of hot metal printing in the 1980s. The museum holds the Swiss Historical Paper Collection made by Dr W F Tschudin, author of the standard work

Baden has been famous for its hot springs since Roman times. Baden Historical Museum is in a modern building beside the river Limmat. The exhibitions show the importance of the baths as a place where people

tapes, fire engines and military vehicles. The museum holds documentary records of Sauber vehicles and has links with other industrial and transport museums around the shores of the Bodensee.

coal from the late 18th century, and of uranium after the Second World War. The principal mining museum in the Czech republic is centred round the Vojtech mine of 1779, which in 1875 reached a depth of

produced here and in 1835 the first enamelled tableware factory in Europe was founded. The ironworks museum was founded in 1986 to mark the 300th anniversary of the Thale ironworks. It shows the development

The museum established in 1981 is the only such institution in Poland with an extensive collection related to the history of mining, mining technology and culture. Rich educational offer, a typical Silesian

The Silesian Museum complex, located in the former “Katowice Coal Mine”, together with other institutions established here, forms the Cultural Zone - a new cultural centre for the city. The "Katowice" [...] and Gothic style. Especially these sites have been used for the new headquarters of the Silesian Museum.

Częstochowa in southern Poland was the centre of the country’s iron ore mining industry. A museum was established in 1968 with displays illustrating mining techniques, and collections of winding equipment [...] lighting and ventilation systems, locomotives used underground and mining maps. Subsequently the museum was re-located to tunnels excavated in 1974-76 linking exhibition pavilions in the Stanislaw Staszic

channel to be loaded. Visitors can see, hear, feel, and smell all of this. The various different museum collections, including a workshop with transmission-driven tool machines, offer visitors a great

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