Antwerp’s museum of local transport is located in a tram shed of 1912, which was registered as an historical monument in 1996 and ceased to be used the following year. The museum opened in 2001 and has [...] uniforms, tickets and other artefacts relating to tramways and urban buses. Historic trams from the museum run from time to time on the streets of Antwerp, and can be hired for special occasions.

centre of the town. All aspects of the town’s history are illustrated in the museum 'De Waag', and there is also a small museum of everyday life at the Hotel De Leeuw, which prides itself on its Hanseatic

making of shoes in favour of the manufacture of leather garments. The museum, which is managed by the Pirkanmaa Provincial Museum, opened in 1985 in a workshop formerly used for making heels. The collection [...] The Whitewater Museum at Korkeakiski, north-east of Tampere, is situated in the Juupajoki Korkeakiski leather factory, one of the enterprises set up in response to the opening of the Tampere-Haapamäki

The Finnish railway museum has been located at Hyvinkää since 1974, when some of its collections were moved to a station and a locomotive depot that includes a roundhouse. The exhibition hall that accommodates [...] accommodates most of the rolling stock was built in 1987. The museum encompasses several homes of railway workers. There are 25 steam locomotives, the earliest built in Manchester and Glasgow, with subsequent

The workers’ housing museum, part of the Helsinki City Museum, is situated in one of four wooden apartment houses built in Kirstinkuja in 1909 for some of the city’s own employees. Designed by the architect [...] been restored to tell the carefully-researched stories of nine families between 1909 and 1985. The museum is currently closed for renovation but will re-open in 2008.

includes 20 support vehicles including rail grinders and snow sweepers. The museum is a branch of the Helsinki City Museum. [...] Tramways form an essential and popular part of the city’s present-day public transport system. The museum is situated at the rear of the brick-built Toolo Hall depot, which dates from 1900. A representative

is a museum established in 1985 in the former headquarters building of Nestle International in Vevey on the shore of Lake Geneva. For over 30 years already, the world's first-ever food-themed museum has

working. The sites of three blast furnaces and 30 forges have been identified in the region. The museum shows how iron was worked in the Canton of Vaud from prehistoric times. It is located on the site

worked at Lousal between 1906 and 1988. The project to conserve some of the workings as part of a museum dates from 1996 when proposals were made by the Frédéric Velge Foundation as part of a programme [...] Industrial Archaeology, and the centre was opened in its present form in 2010. The indoor part of the museum is located in the power station of 1934 that supplied the pyrites mines. Visitors can see other surface

was persuaded to leave some land for the building of a museum. The historic collection was formally made over to the municipality and in 2000 a museum was opened in a striking modern building. The history

Portugal’s Museum of Electricity is located in the former Tejo (Tagus) power station, begun in 1908, with additions made up to 1951. Parts are in the Art Nouveau style. It is situated on land reclaimed [...] reclaimed from the river in the late nineteenth century. The museum, opened in 1990 and extensively renovated in 2006, is concerned both with industrial archaeology and with science, and particularly with questions [...] permanent exhibition ‘Faces of the Tejo’ commemorating those who worked at the power station. The museum also displays an extensive collection of electricity generating equipment from the 1930s to the 1950s

The Museum of Communications in Lisbon is operated by the Portuguese Communications Foundation, which is a collaboration between the National Communications Authority, the Portuguese Postal Services and [...] earliest parts of the collections date back to 1878 and have been continuously expanded. The present museum opened in 1997. The artefacts range from the sixteenth century to the present. The postal collections

monastic brewery. This museum, like most of its kind, provides samples of beer for its visitors, but this is perhaps the only one to invite them to drink as they study the exhibits. The museum takes pride in the [...] The Museu da Cerveja (Museum of Beer) in Lisbon has displays relating to the beer brewed in all the Portuguese-speaking countries, Angola, Brazil, Mozambique, Cape Verde and San Tomé & Prince, as well [...] well as Portugal itself. The museum tells the story of beer from the first century BC to the present with particular emphasis of the development of industrial-scale breweries in the nineteenth century. The

horizons of mineralisation, and specimens from the Panasqueira mine are displayed in geological museums throughout the world. The landscape is dominated by large-scale modern plant, but conservation work [...] patterns on the mountain side. There are displays relating to the industry in the archaeological museum at Fundao.

Corredore de Cobra, the reconstruction of a traditional salt warehouse, and the establishment of a salt museum.

Cima is a small town near Castelo Branco in central Portugal, on the border with Spain. MUTEX is a museum in the factory of the Corga wool carding and spinning company, now owned by the local authority. [...] There is also a display about workers and entrepreneurs in the industry. In the other building, the museum preserves the wool carding and spinning equipment of the factory, a wooden hand loom and large weaving

Coffee is enjoyed throughout Europe, but what is perhaps the only European coffee museum is at Campo Maior in central Portugal, 20 km north-west of Badajoz. Established by the Nova Delta company in 1994

one of Portugal’s principal sources of gunpowder and the former black powder mills now comprise a museum. Visitors can see how water-power was used to blend charcoal with sulphur and saltpetre and there

Joao Texeira. The workings were abandoned in the late nineteenth century but re-started in 1930. The museum park includes open cast workings for malachite (copper ore), the remains of smelting furnaces, and

cast-iron in Europe. The region is celebrated for its fine red and white wines, and the National Museum of Wine was established in 1968 under the patronage of the Portuguese Institute of Vineyards and