region. The industry contracted in the 20th century, and the last mine to work in the area is now a museum, where visitors, after donning protective clothing and boots and putting on helmets with lamps, are

celebrated for its castings, particularly cannon, and its pattern shop (Kamenak) has been restored as a museum of ironmaking. In 1877 the company ceased to make iron and became purely an engineering concern,

present, which include a space odyssey, blacksmithing and the operation of a virtual hammer. From the museum visitors can follow a trail, ‘The Mile of Forges’ which includes important monuments of ironmaking

The museum at the edge of the airport at Wiener Neustadt is managed by a private association, and occupies an exhibition hall of 400 square metres. The displays are based on collections made by Toni Kahibacher [...] 1993, and was supported by the city of Wiener Neustadt and Diamond Aircraft Industries GmbH. The museum building was opened in 1999. Its outstanding exhibit is a Messerschmitt Me-109 of the Second World

viaducts. Where it crosses the Präbichl pass it is 1,204 metres above sea level. The railway has its own museum in the Vordernberg station. It includes models, the cab of a steam locomotive, pictures and documents

of traffic, in 1990. The museum was closed at the end of the 2012 season in order to allow restoration of historic buildings but re-opened from 13 September 2014. The museum is concerned with Vienna’s [...] Railways, or VEF) was formed in 1969, and formally organised from 1972. The association opened a Museum of the Vienna Tramways at Ottakring station in 1972 after six years of collecting, but space was

complex is a crenellated 36-bay engineering shop. Part of the site is occupied by the Austrian Military Museum whose displays illustrate the military history of the Habsburg Empire from c. 1600 until 1918, and

end of the 1970s. Today it belongs to the open-air museum that was set up in the valley in 1988. Furthermore, the museum includes the ethnographic museum in Wegscheid, located in a 16th century forge and

trading city in the southern Peleponnese, and the seat of a bishopric and a university. The railway museum, opened in 1986, occupies the buildings of a former station, which are incorporated in a 54 ha public [...] ‘Krieglok’ 2-10-0s, employed on standard gauge lines in Greece during and after the Second World War. The museum also includes eight carriages, some railcars and a collection of freight wagons.

twentieth century, but manufacturing has declined in recent decades. The municipality has developed a museum, opened in 2000, that tells the story of the close relationship between the town and the waters that

The Cyprus Classic Motorcycle Museum was established by Andreas Nicolaou, and has a collection of more than 150 vehicles, the earliest of 1914, the latest of 1983. They are predominantly British, with

The home-museum of the narrow-gauge Septemvri - Dobrinishte is railway is run by volunteers. It is located at Tsepina Station in the Chepinska River Gorge, 8 km from Varvara. The small, elegant station

The Retro Museum is a collection of beautifully maintained consumer objects from the era of state socialism in Bulgaria, from 1944 to 1989. It is located in a big gallery in a shopping mall in the middle

and the modern harbour was constructed 1906. The Varna Museum illustrates many aspects of the growth of the city, while the National Maritime Museum, established in 1923, has exhibits relating to many aspects

Romania led to the diversion of the line that served it. A museum was soon established in the old station, and was acknowledged as the National Museum of Transport and Communication in 1996. The collection [...] The city of Ruse is on the banks of the River Danube in northern Bulgaria. The National Museum of Transport and Communications is principally concerned with railways and is located in Bulgaria’s first [...] Visitors can enjoy rides in hand-propelled carts once used for the maintenance of the permanent way. The museum also includes a small display relating to the Danube navigation.

The aviation museum at Plovdiv is a branch of the National Military and Historical Museum and is located near to an active military base and to Plovdiv’s airport. The collection consists of more than sixty [...] and the landing capsule from the SOYUX 33 mission of 1979. Displays in the indoor section of the museum describe the history of aviation in Bulgaria, and, in particularly, the career of Asen Hristov Yordanov

illustrated at Etar, an open air museum 8 km south of the city, opened in 1963 on the basis of collecting begun in 1949 by its first director, Lazar Donkov (1908-76). The museum occupies a deep wooded valley [...] situ and some removed from their original sites, are powered by water from the River Sivek. The museum’s objective is to show the way of life of the Gabrovo region between 1750 and 1900. Buildings that [...] shop for spinning and weaving goats’ hair. Further aspects of the city’s past are illustrated in the Museum of History.

2010. A museum of carpets and other applied arts was opened within a fifteenth century mosque while Azerbaijan was part of the USSR in 1967, and the displays were later moved to the Lenin Museum. A new [...] Kuba, Baku, Shirvan, Karabagh and Tabris. There are demonstrations of carpet weaving techniques. The museum also includes displays of jewellery, copper goods, shoes and traditional clothes.

in white marble, was designed by the architect Guisseppe Momo. Part of it now houses the Vatican museum of numismatics and philately, and another part is a duty-free shop. The railway is principally used

still flourish on the ground, whereas salt-loving people prefer to pay a visit to the local Salt Museum. Everything is tasteless without salt. Even the mighty demanded this precious mineral. It is therefore [...] with seven bastions of soldiers until a part of the site was razed to the ground in 1870. The Salt Museum in Marsal comprises both military and technical history. In the "Porte de France", the oldest town [...] "briquetagen" (coarse ceramic vessels) show visitors how salt cakes were dried out in clay pots. The museum follows the path of salt from its discovery to its final disappearance through the tiny hole of a