west, enjoy a special status as a factory complex. Established in 1976, the Urban and Industrial Museum in Rüsselsheim presents cultural, social, economic, technological and political developments from [...] and ancient period right up to the 20th century and has been praised across Europe. One of the museum’s priority areas is the development of the Opel factory in the city. The German subsidiary of General

t House , now a museum, which in the 19th century was the home of Don Guillermo Areny-Plandolit, one of the principal ironmasters in Andorra. There are numerous exhibits in the museum showing how loca

a community of railwaymen living in houses in the Garden City style. The railway museum, a branch of the Technical Museum in Vienna, occupies an 8.5 ha site that includes the buildings of a railway depot [...] September 1987, which was a spectacular procession of locomotives and rolling stock both from the museum collection and from present-day railways.

guns. The company developed into Steyr-Daimler-Puch, which made bearings, bicles and motorcars. The Museum of the Industrial World, in a 19th century small arms factory, interprets industrial history from

been modernised. The museum has one of the centre-cab, double-bonnet electric locomotives constructed for the line when it was opened, as well as some original passenger. The museum is based in the former [...] km south-east of Vienna, is modest in size in comparison with those of the great national railway museums, but it represents a particularly interesting phase in the development of railways, and reflects

The museum opened in 1995, and shows the development of agricultural machinery over two centuries, from the sickle to the remotely-controlled combine harvester. Its exhibits include some of the traditional

exhibition on posts and communications include four postal carriages of the early 19th century. The museum has several outstations which illustrate the industrial heritage of the region.

Silvanum (which refers to forests in Latin) is an outstanding museum of the nature, management and culture of forests. It was founded in 1979 in a granary built in 1771 for the Innerberger Hauptgewerkschaft [...] village of Großreifling, which is sited high in the Austrian Alps in the Gesäuse National Park. The museum has a large exhibition on four storeys. The technology of working in the forests is shown in the [...] include a 3-d cinema, interactive sledge and raft rides and special guided tours and project days. The museum is open from May to October.

The museum is in a beautifully converted nineteenth-century barn in a large green space in the centre of the village of Kammern. It shows the agricultural and industrial history of the region. The themes [...] themes covered by the museum are connected especially with mining, agriculture and the making of charcoal. The agricultural traditions of the region are shown by hand tools and utensils that were part of [...] life, and a threshing machine. Many other objects given or loaned by people are also on display. The museum has an exhibition about the geological history of the earth over 500 million years, with rock samples

1995 attempted to revitalise the area by displaying its mining heritage and creating an open air museum to display the history of iron smelting in the area. The principal feature of the show mine is the [...] after a local village. The mine’s waste tip is open to collectors of minerals. The Heft open air museum (Freilichtmuseum Heft, A-9375 Hüttenberg-Heft, Tel. +43 (0) 4263 8108) is centred on two nineteenth

purchased by the local authority and now houses a range of activities related to textiles, including a museum of weaving, a centre for promoting textile arts, a business concerned with the processing of wool [...] of several universities. A second building was taken over in 2006, and attractions now include a museum of slot machines and mechanical music.

European Iron Age culture of 1000 – 500 b.c. It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997. The museum, in a former Roman Catholic presbytery in the Baroque style, has displays relating to the working

Austria from the Middle Ages onwards. In 1880 it made 60% of the iron in the Habsburg Empire. The museum of mining and foundry work at Gußwerk is in the impressive building of the former ‘kk’ iron foundry [...] expanded in the eighteenth century. The kk foundry produced cannons, machine parts and tools. The museum opened in 1998. It tells the story of iron mining in the region and displays the history, techniques

about 9000 inhabitants, south-west of Vienna on the edge of the Vienna Woods. The Museum Walzengravieranstalt (Museum of Engraving) opened in 1989 on the premises that were occupied from 1911 until closure [...] became less and less viable, and the company lacked the resources to invest in new technology. The museum preserves all the essential equipment of a vital trade that is often overlooked. It stages temporary

mountains of Andorra, and its leaves were processed locally and made into products for smoking. This museum occupies the multi-storey factory worked by the Reig family between 1909 and 1957 and is sponsored

risk Forening) was formed in Trondheim in 1979 and has been responsible for the development of a museum at the Gråkallbanen, depot at Monkvoll about 6 km from the city centre. It holds a collection of

freight wagons between 10 factories and the railway system at Timisoara Est station. The tramway museum has a large collection of vehicles made and used in the town, the oldest of which is a horse tram

storeys above, hangars built for the naval air service in the 1920s and a torpedo workshop of 1932. The museum portrays the history of the Swedish navy in recent centuries, and has active boat-building workshops [...] library. Working conditions in the naval base are portrayed in a photographic exhibition. Much of the museum is located along a pier, where vessels, including two torpedo boats and a minesweeper are displayed

principal railway museum collections in Sweden have been located at Gavle since 1970, and consist of over 100 locomotives, 150 passenger carriages and several hundred wagons. The museum is administered,

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.