standing derelict. The local authority sanctioned the development of a museum that was opened in the restored buildings in 1995. The museum presents a wide-ranging panorama of the technologies used at all stages [...] stages of textile manufacture, and many of the machines on display are demonstrated. The museum holds a substantial archive of documents and photographs relating to textile manufactures in the area.

century specialised in the production of cotton, but one of the principal themes of its textile museum, opened in 1992, is the production of garments. There are displays of sewing machines and other materials

1995 has been the home of the large exhibits, chiefly artillery pieces, from the Royal Armouries Museum, formerly held in the Tower of London. The collection of 350 artillery pieces includes guns from [...] Armouries holds databases on cannon made in Great Britain and held in castles, fortified sites and museums in many parts of the world.

and armour, and is generally regarded as England’s oldest museum. A large part of the collection has been transferred to a purpose-built museum designed by Derek Walker and Buro Appold at Clarence Dock [...] weapons of the 17th and 19th centuries, with a display of mortars and cannon on the ground floor. The museum’s galleries illustrate all aspects of war from the middle ages to the 19th century. There are copious [...] firearms, and another on the ways in which nations have turned away from warfare towards peace. The museum is able to stage tournaments and jousting contests.

The seaside town of Weston-super-Mare near Bristol is home to the largest museum in the world dedicated to helicopters. The collection was started privately by the aviation writer Elfan ap Rees in 1958 [...] in 1978. It continued to build its collection, often saving helicopters from being scrapped. The museum is now a charity that aims to preserve an authoritative collection of helicopters for the long term [...] autogyros in its collection, from Britain, the United States, Russia and other European countries. The museum also has 50 helicopter engines. Nearly all the British aircraft were built by Westland, the other

the museum’s collection includes some pioneering turbines of the 1950s. Other displays feature the development of telecommunications. Above all the Elmuseet is a place of discovery, a ‘living museum where [...] north-east of the town of Tange, which itself lies 25 km south-east of Viborg. Energimuseet is a museum and an interactive scientific discovery station situated close to Tangevaerket, Denmark’s largest

established in 1900. It now incorporates a museum. Visitors are greeted with an explanatory video before a tour of the working brewery, including the malt house. The museum, located in the brewery cellars includes

the citadel which dates from 1609-15 was adapted as a malthouse in 1879 and now accommodates the museum of beer. The malt kiln remains at one end of the three-storey building which was purchased by a group [...] caps, pens, posters and other marketing materials. This is claimed to be one of the largest brewery museums in Europe.

The aviation museum is part of the Slovak technical museum and occupies five hangers at Košice international airport. It displays 18 aeroplanes and helicopters , mainly warplanes including a MIG-15, MIG-21

The majority of the industrialist donated Rahmi Koç Museum is an excellent example of how historic industrial buildings a new use can feed. In the former anchor foundry of the Arsenal House (the shipyards) [...] shipyards) on the Golden Horn, the Koç-Foundation has set up an industrial museum, that gathered beside the railway, aviation and shipping also developments in communications technology and astronomy. Walkable [...] Walkable captain bridges, a real submarine at the jetty and beautiful miniature railways make the museum interesting for children.

The Istanbul Railway Museum is small in scale but testifies to an important aspect of European history. It was established in 2005 in part of the Sirkeci railway station of 1888-90, once the terminus of

Proposals for an air museum were first made after the First World War, when it was suggests that aircraft in left in Turkey by German forces should be put on display. The present museum dates from initiatives [...] completed in 1983.The museum is dominated by rows of Phantoms, Sabres and other fast jets, but the collection also includes a Douglas DC3 or C47, of the kind found in many other air museums, a Douglas DC6 or [...] The Istanbul Aviation Museum, 6 km from Istanbul Ataturk airport, principally displays planes used by the Turkish airforce, but it also holds substantial number of civilian aircraft, some of considerable

demonstrated, and the museum also arranges temporary exhibitions on topical themes. There is close co-operation with parallel projects on the Czech side of the border, and the museum at Gross-Siegharts is [...] led companies to shift production to areas in the east where wages were lower. The Living Textile Museum, established in 1989, is located in a four-storey former factory. Its displays illustrate the textile [...] is part of the Waldviertal Textilstrasse (textile road) which also includes museums at Veitra and Waidhofen and some of the remaining working textile factories.

town in the mountains of central Austria with a long history of iron mining. The Post and Telegraph Museum is located in the Kammerhof, a medieval building where mining in the region was administered and [...] a hunting lodge for Emperor Franz Josef. In 2016 the three-storey building opened as a specialist museum of post, telegraph and telephone communications in cooperation with the Austrian postal service. [...] postal vehicles: a beautiful mail coach, a motorbike and even sledges for deliveries in snow. The museum also displays postal uniforms, post office equipment, telephone switchboards, a tickertape machine

particularly strong beers in which a small proportion of wheat was incorporated in the mash. The museum is located in a building alongside the brewery, and uses interactive displays to tell the story of

year. A programme of conservation commenced the following year, and the building was opened as a museum in 1991. The complex includes six water wheels powering hammers and other machinery, and the forge

the mountain called the Pfander, is one of many in the Alps. Its unique feature is that there is a museum at the lower station which explains the technology used, and shows how the cable car system fits [...] . The cars, of modern construction, were built in Vienna, and can carry up to 80 passengers. The museum is located in a range of new buildings at the lower station constructed in 1994-95.

unprofitable, but from the 1950s parts of the mine have been developed for therapeutic purposes. The museum, whose establishment owes much to Peter Sika (1916-92) includes displays of water powered machinery [...] able to try to find fragments of gold by washing ore. There is also a section on salt working. The museum is open between May and September each year.

are displayed in the Keltenmuseum (Celtic Museum) which occupies the former administrative building of the saltworks dating from 1754, facing the river. The museum includes a section on the saltworks but

Dacian king. Elsewhere are underground football and handball pitches, a running track and a small museum. Two chambers, 210 m below the surface, are used as an in-patient sanitorium for the treatment of [...] Bucharest. Both mines were damaged by flooding in 1994, but were drained and re-opened in 1998. The museum illustrating the history of salt mining and processing and of the spa, opened in May 2003 in an early