The Romanian Railway Museum is located next to Bucharest North station. The museum project was launched in 1934 but it was not opened until 1969. Its centrepiece is a very large diorama of a working railway [...] distinguished Romanian civil engineers Anghel Saligny (1854-1925) and Elie Radu (1853-1931). The museum also owns several steam locomotives including 43 Calugareni which was built for the opening in 1869

Albert at the entrance that it is a private collection that visitors are welcome to see, but not a museum. It includes examples of high quality motor cars from every decade of the 20th century, including

1973. By 1979 the building had been adapted as the Electrical Museum of Kosovo, with exhibition rooms, a restaurant and a bar. The museum ceased to open during the wares of the 1990s, but was restored

The Çamlik Outdoor Railway Museum is located 12 km from Selçuk near Ephesus, on the oldest main line in Turkey, built in 1866. The tracks in the area were re-aligned from 1991 which provided an opportunity [...] opportunity for the creation of a museum in a garden setting which opened in 1997. More than 30 steam locomotives are displayed, including examples built by Robert Stephenson & Co, Beyer Peacock and North British

dent’s house. The museum run by the Porth Curno Trust, established in 1997, has its offices, gallery and shop in the station buildings of 1909. The highlight of a visit to the museum is to enter the two

A visit to Weaver Hall Museum and Workhouse begins on the ground floor with a short introductory film in ‘The Regalette’ mini-cinema. You then walk through the Special Exhibitions Gallery to two other

is so historically-important it´s been declared a Scheduled Monument and carefully managed by the Museum and English heritage. There are two stories to tell at Langford, one of fresh water and one of power [...] Hanningfield reservoir. Surrounding the Lilleshall engine at Langford are power sources of all types. The Museum of Power was set up to exhibit and demonstrate working examples of power sources of all types and [...] history. Nothing can be achieved without the use of power in one form or another. The work of the Museum is divided into two broad areas. The first is to provide an ´educational´ environment which explores

and more than 40 stations on the underground system are now listed buildings. The London Transport Museum has been located since 1980 in a former flower market building of 1871 in Covent Garden. It was re-opened [...] trolleybus of 1931. Frank Pick had a sophisticated approach to marketing and public relations, and the museum holds a collection of more than 5,000 posters that advertised transport services in London. One display [...] London' virtual tours of disused tube stations and other secret spaces on the London Underground The museum has a very large annex close to Acton Town underground station in West London where some 370,000

painted maroon, and examples of the heavy lorries that were adapted for the use of showmen. The indoor museum includes a gallery of fairground art, a feature of which is ‘Salome and the Dance of the Seven Veils’

The principal objective of the museum at Cosford is to educate present and future generations about the Royal Air Force. The principal displays are of the aircraft flown since 1939 by the RAF, its allies [...] enemies, and an exhibition about the Cold War housed in an innovative building opened in 2007. The museum is important in several respects in the wider context of European industrial history. The ‘Test Flight’ [...] for the last time in 1964, its endurance time having been proved to be no more than 25 minutes. The museum displays several aircraft of the types used by civilian airlines in the years between the end of

Bolton, a huge spinning mill complex, where there were once 400,000 spindles and 2,000 employees. A museum displaying re-constructed engines to the public, was opened in 1983. The future of the collection [...] accommodated 7,000 bales of cotton. All the engines had to be dismantled, moved and re-erected, but the museum was re-opened from 2006. Some 29 engines are currently displayed. One of the most notable is the

14 April 1912 with the loss of the lives of 1500 of the 2200 people on board, is commemorated in museums in several countries. She sailed from Southampton and called at Cherbourg and Cobh en route for the

plan largely goes back to James Ramsden, an industrialist and co-owner of the Furness Railway. The museum, which originated in 1907, tells the story of the industrial and urban growth of Barrow, and of the

Andorra’s national car museum occupies several floors of a building in the centre of Encamp, and portrays the evolution of powered road vehicles from a Pinnette steam car of 1885 to the 1970s. The collection [...] cars are wholly unrestored and remain as they were when their Andorran owners donated them to the museum. The collection of cars is supported by displays of posters, accessories and memorabilia.

Fondacion Centro Nacional del Vidrio (National Glass Foundation) was established in 1982 and the present museum was opened in 1991. Its most important exhibits are the buildings of the late eighteenth century

century. It still has many traditional manufacturers and produces goods for the Playmobil brand. The museum is in one of the fine houses of Onil. It displays the history of doll manufacturing around the world [...] including Antonio Juan, Mariquita Pérez, Así, Berjuan, Famosa, Falca, Rauber and Nines d'Onil. The museum arranges visits to some of the local doll factories.

least around Valencia where it forms the basis of the paellas for which the region is famous. The museum is based in the Molino de Serra, a five-storey factory of the early twentieth century, and displays [...] used in modern factories, and the role of rice in the cuisine of the area is well-portrayed. The museum includes many up-to-date models and interactive displays.

also workings for tin ore. The Parque Minero de la Unión (Mining Park at La Unión) is an open air museum commemorating the mining industry whose principal feature is the mine called the Mina Agrupa Vincenta [...] generations of coal miners in Murcia, and can learn something of other mines in the vicinity. The museum stages an annual festival of music and flamenco dancing called the Cante de las Minas. >>> Currently

reloading point for a seemingly inexhaustible supply of iron ore from Kiruna in neighboring Sweden. Museum Nord - Narvik tells the story of the rapid emergence of Narvik as a result of the demand for iron [...] million tons of Swedish iron ore have been transported since it’s opening in 1902. When visiting the museum you can view the model of the historical Norddal Bridge, with its great steel structure hanging over [...] laid the foundation for today's Narvik. Among the highlights of the exhibition is a film that gives museum visitors the sensation of a train journey along the Ofoten Railway. For those who would like to

Polytechnic Museum was founded in 1957 and is managed by the Academy of Sciences under the direction of the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture. It occupies a building that formerly accommodated a museum commemorating