e (miners’ slide) on which miners traditionally rode on leather aprons. A further display at the museum is the Terra Humoristika, a collection of humorous porcelain figures relating to mining. The traditions

(1755-1826), was built in the mid-19th century but following practices of the 18th century. It became a museum in 1961, and visitors are able to see most of the equipment in motion. The forges were powered by

The ironworking museum in Jesenice in northern Slovenia is situated in the Ruardowa graščina (the Bucelleni-Ruard Manor House), one of four ‘ironworks castles’ that were formerly the homes of the families [...] until 1871, after which the house was adapted to accommodate ironworks clerks and their families. The museum, established in 1954, illustrates the iron and steel industry of the region around Jesenice, including [...] furnace, as well as the social and cultural life of the ironworkers. Other sections display the museum’s collections of local fossils and minerals.

been restored. The Maritime Museum originated as early as 1872. From 1949 it was managed by the Yugoslav Academy of Arts and Sciences (JAZU), but became part of the city’s museum service from 1987. It occupies

large collection of small boats, and it is also responsible for the management of the Naval Museum and the Vasa Museum. [...] The maritime museum portrays the role of merchant shipping, naval defence and shipbuilding in the history of Sweden. Its collections includes 1,500 models of ships of all kinds of all periods from the [...] times, and amongst its displays are several highly-detailed ships’ interiors of the 18th century. The museum building, opened in 1938, stands close to the centre of the city overlooking the Djurgardsbrunnsviken

The Maritime Museum is a division of the National Museum in the Baltic port of Szczecin (formerly Stettin) in Western Pomerania, and is accommodated in an exhibition building designed by the architect [...] architect Wilhelm Meyer Schwartau and built between 1908 and 1913. The present museum was founded by the Ministry for Seafaring in 1946. Its exhibitions show the role of the sea in the economy and social life of

The maritime museum at the Hanseatic port of Rostock was founded in 1968 and has the best collection of 20th century merchant ships in Europe. The vessel now called the “Frieden” (in full “Traditionschiff [...] hiff Typ Frieden”) is the centrepiece of the museum, and has been moored on the bank of the River Warnow opposite the port of Rostock since 1970. She is a freighter of 10,000 tons, commissioned by the

The maritime museum in Goteborg was founded in 1913 by the city’s Nautical Society, and presents detailed pictures of many aspects of the relationships between the city and the sea from the seventeenth [...] h century to the present. The history of shipbuilding is described in some detailed. The museum is located in an area where wooden ships were constructed until 1893 when the last of the yards, Varfret [...] role of the fishing industry on the west coast of Sweden. The principal architectural feature of the museum, the Maritime Tower, commemorates the 690 Swedish sailors who lost their lives when 98 of the no

Blanzy is a mining village a short distance south of Le Creusot. The mining museum forms part of the Creusot-Montceau Ecomusée. The St Claude Mine opened between 1857 and 1881. Its shaft was no more than

socialist politician Jean Jaurès (1859-1914), who is commemorated by a statue in the town. The mining museum at Cagnac les Mines, 10 km south of Carmaux, with a show mine in which visitors can go 350 m underground [...] colossal machines used in open-cast mining in the late 20th century are displayed. There is also a glass museum at Carmaux (Musée du Verre) in a building called the ‘Orangerie’, not an appendage of an aristocratic

Fohnsdorf in Styria is the centre of an area where brown coal (lignite) was mined from the late seventeenth century. It was extracted on a larger scale from the 1840s when it was used at ironworks in

status of a town in 1954. In recent decades most coal has been extracted by open cast methods. The museum occupies a modernist group of pit-head buildings of reinforced concrete and glass at the XX (i.e

is a mining town at the centre of an extensive ironmaking region in eastern Slovakia. Its mining museum, whose earliest collections date from 1902, has extensive displays, including some located underground

machinery was operated by electric power. The site is dominating by a lofty steel headframe. The museum offers a demonstration gallery on the surface, some 350 m long, where visitors, after passing through

The national ceramics museum in Valencia, one of three in Spain, has occupied since 1947 the palace of the Marques de Dos Aguas, whose earliest parts date from the fifteenth century, although it is primarily

of the city centre which grew up around a station on the railway to Mulhouse, opened in 1841. The museum of chocolate, sometimes called Les secrets du Chocolat musée, is situated close to a factory producing [...] markets. In 1973 the trademark was taken over by the Burrus family, makers of chocolate since 1911. The museum provides a botanical and historical overview of the manufacture of chocolate from the growing of [...] children are able to make chocolate for themselves. There are, naturally, opportunities for tasting. The museum belongs to La Route du chocolate et des Douceurs d’Alsace, established in 2007, which links together

Pelletier", named after the 1828 born scissor maker Nicolas Pierre Pelletier, opened in 1991 as a museum of the cutlery industry (Musée de la Coutellerie), displaying an excellent collection of typical

many local cutlery shops. A newly established information centre, "La Cité des Couteliers", provides museum-like information about today's cutlery industry. The Musée de la Coutellerie with its branches, founded

black gold’. Extraction ceased in 1966, but from the 1980s public pressure grew for the creation of a museum, particularly after some former miners were inspired by a visit to the conserved salt mines at Wieliczka [...] underground, safety devices and a locomotive supplied by Siemens to work in the mine in 1925. The museum headquarters is in a former mine office near to the underground galleries.

The technology museum in Speyer was set up in 1991, originally as an offshoot of the museum of motor cars and technology in Sinsheim which had no further space for expansion. It occupies an exhibition [...] to see films in an IMAX cinema. The Wilhelmsbau Museum in the grounds (for which entrance is free to visitors who have tickets for the technology museum) displays an astonishing variety of mechanical means [...] Speyer, which was one of the largest in Germany during the First World War. The ample space that the museum enjoys enables it to display some very large exhibits, including a Boeing 747 Jumbo jet airliner