buildings erected for the telegraph service in 1861 remain, together with a 70 m radio mast. The museum was opened in 1996, and has displays relating to every aspect of the developments in telegraphs and

The Railway Museum in Kościerzyna has a large and growing collection of rail vehicles with historic locomotive sheds, workshops and a 1930s office building. The original locomotive depot was built when [...] important route connecting the growing industrial region of Silesia with the port of Gdańsk. The museum was begun in 1992 and is continuing to develop. Its collection of vehicles includes around twelve

the Pomorie Saltwork and Solari 98, continue to manufacture salt by traditional methods, and a salt museum, in two restored buildings near a traditional salina, was opened in 2002.

Natural Park of Salinas, where salt water has been evaporated for centuries to make salt. The small museum that shows with original equipment and displays the process of extraction of salt in the past and

Dordogne in a mansion built for a wealthy bourgeois family in the seventeenth century. The large museum explores the production and use of tobacco in different civilizations around the world over the past

Many tobacco companies came to Kavala in the nineteenth century. The museum explains this history with objects and images about tobacco cultivation, production, processing and products. It includes equipment [...] social history of the region and the relationships between the labour force and the employers. The museum also holds an important archive and library about tobacco in Greece. It is temporarily in the ground

The Union Brewery in Ljubljana dates from 1864, and the museum, founded in 1986 by the company with the enthusiastic support of its employees, portrays its history and many other aspects of the manufacture [...] manufacture and consumption of beer in Slovenia. The museum has won several awards for the quality of its interpretation, and for the way in which it reflects the lives and interests of the brewery workers.

it was celebrated throughout Europe for its Virginia cigars. The museum developed from an exhibition organised in 1991 by the City Museum service in collaboration with the tobacco company, and is now located

of the University of St Kliment Ohridski at Bitola, and is responsible for the management of the museum, which is located in a building originally intended for fermenting tobacco. It includes displays

books and in calendars and greetings cards. A museum was established in the mill in 1987 displaying a collection that originated in the National Technical Museum in the 1950s. It shows the classic methods

Prague’s museum of public transport occupies the Střešovice depot, constructed in 1909 to accommodate electric tramcars which had been operating in the city since 1896. The depot remained in use until [...] until 1992 and was designated an historical landmark in 1991. The museum, sponsored by the city transport authority, was opened in 1993. The collection consists of more than 40 tramcars and motor buses, ranging [...] from the city centre. It is also possible for groups to charter historic trams on journeys from the museum to other sections of the city’s network.

Agricultural Museum date from the World Fair (or Jubilee Exhibition) held in Prague in 1891. After the exhibition closed they were part of a museum of ethnography but the agricultural museum became a separate [...] displayed in various locations until a magnificent museum building was constructed in 1937-39 in the Letná area of Prague, close to the National Technical Museum. It was designed in the Modernist style by the [...] including portable engines, tractors and threshing machines. The museum has four branches in other parts of the Czech Republic. The Museum of the Czech Countryside at Kačina shows the evolution of agricultural

to the museum in 2009. Another locomotive of outstanding interests is a Class 434, designed for working freight trains, which was the first produced by the Škoda Plzeň works in 1920. The museum also holds [...] hour’s journey west of Prague on the railway to Chomutov, has since 1997 been the location of the museum of the Czech Railways. It is located, adjacent to the passenger station, in a former locomotive depot [...] still in situ. Several of the most important exhibits are held on loan from the National Technical Museum in Prague. The collection includes more than 30 standard gauge steam locomotives. One of the oldest

the town of Beroum in the forest region 26 km south-west of Prague near to which are two important museums of the extractive industries that once flourished in the karst (limestone) region of Bohemia. To [...] some of the workings that remain accessible. A short distance south-west of Lodĕnice is an open air museum centred on the Parymple limestone quarries opened in 1916-18 to supply the chemical works at Neštemice

area was important in the early modern period for innovations in mining techniques. Visitors to the museum, which traces its origins from 1877, are able to take a 250 m tour of a medieval mine, and the social

The Mining Museum at Krásno in the Slavkov Forest in the north-western part of the Czech Republic is a branch of the regional museum at Sokolov. It is based around the Vilém tin mine, which worked from [...] World War until 1991, although displays also illustrate the history of coal-mining in the area. The museum is centred on the former tin ore-processing plant that was reconstructed in 1994-98. Other structures

four undershot waterwheels. The machinery that has been restored dates from the 19th century. The museum based in the building has displays on the development of milling in Moravia, and also includes a

historic town built around a former imperial fortress guarding a crossing of the River Elbe. The railway museum was founded in 1996 by a non-profit organisation, and occupies an eight-bay semi-roundhouse locomotive

sections of the waterway were used in the 20th century, although much of its course remained.The museum at Chvalšiny, 22 km south-west of Český Budĕjovice displays ancient documents, engravings, photographs [...] history of the navigation and the woodmen of the Šumava forests who provided it with its trade. The museum is located in the former town hall a few doors away from the birthplace of Josef Rosenauer, who is

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