late 18th and early 19th centuries, and the first railways were built in the area in the 1820s. The Museum of Art and Industry, moved to a new location in 2001, and has comprehensive displays relating to

oldest of which dates from 1908, carry visitors on circuits round the museum, and make occasional appearances at events elsewhere. The museum also holds a substantial archive of documents relating to the Southdown [...] The museum at Amberley illustrates the history of industries of many kinds from south-east England, but it is particularly important for the evidence it provides of lime production, road transport and [...] and industrial railways. The museum occupies a 14.5 ha site that was once used from the 1840s by Pepper & Co for the quarrying of chalk that was burned in kilns to produce lime, that was used in agriculture

town of modern heavy industry in Denmark. The powder works closed in 1965, and has ever since been a museum whose main feature is the intact and working machinery from the 1800s, probably the oldest in the

Tannenhauer, who established a textile business in Chemnitz in 1883. The mill became a technical museum from 1994 after production ceased with the rationalisation of the textile industry in the former [...] Niederweisa and has comprehensive displays on three floors detailing the history of weaving. The museum’s collection includes a range of hand looms and ten power looms of 1921-1955. A short demonstration

History, DGEG), which was founded in 1967, and also has a museum at Bochum-Dahlhausen, whose focus is on the railways of northern Germany. The museum at Neustadt-an-der-Weinstrasse concentrates on lines in [...] livery, together with several diesel and electric locomotives, and an Esslingen railcar of 1935. The museum authorities operate trains on the nearby branch line, the Kuckucksbähnel (Cuckoo railway) from Lambrecht

The museum of historic railway rolling stock at Koblenz is a satellite of the Transport Museum at Nuremburg which is managed by a voluntary group. It is located in a workshop of the early twentieth century [...] depot. The site lies north of the River Moselle and west of the River Rhine. The main emphasis of the museum is on electric traction, and the collection includes examples of the classes of electric locomotive [...] tracks of neighbouring countries. Models show how the railway system worked in the age of steam. The museum organises an imaginative programme of special events, and can easily be reached by bus from Koblenz

of them on loan from the Deutsches Museum in Munich and the German Museum of Technology in Berlin. The earliest is a Benz patent car of 1886. As in most such museums many of the exhibits are sports and [...] is a small town in the Chiemgau, the area between the rivers Inn and Traun in Upper Bavaria. The museum was established in 1987 by the entrepreneur Ernst Freiberger II (b 1950) as a gesture of thanks to [...] vehicles. Good use is made of posters and other ephemera employed in the marketing of cars. The museum also includes a high quality model railway layout, and some cars, chiefly Mercedes and BMW models

experienced a decline in recent years and was replaced by the offshore sector. The Fisheries and Maritime Museum, which opened in 1969, first told the story of Danish deep-sea and coastal fishing, and later also

were subsequently re-built. In 1961 the museum was taken over by the land government of Lower Saxony. Heinrich Ottenjann was succeeded as director of the museum by his son Helmut Ottenjann (1931-2010) [...] original object of the museum was to display the peasant house types of the western part of Lower Saxony (the Oldenburger Munsterland), and to demonstrate traditional crafts. The museum extends over 20 ha [...] barn. Historically significant artefacts on display include a cast iron fire plate dated 1544. The museum includes many buildings that might be regarded as industrial, including a bakehouse, a bleach green

In 1994, the Reinkenhagen Oil Museum opened in the social building of the former field headquarters. It is owned by the municipality of Sundhagen, but the only oil museum in the former GDR is operated

Spain's first oil museum is located in the Unesco Geopark Las Loras, on the edge of the Ayoluengo oil field discovered in 1964 in the town of Sargentes de la Lora, some 50 km north of the provincial capital

The museum opened in 2012 in the electricity generating station of Bursa Merinos woollen factory. The factory was built in 1938 and the dedicated power station continued in use until 1973, fired by coal [...] coal. It is still recognisable by its row of four steel chimneys at one end of the building. The museum explores the importance of electricity in daily life and industrial production through photographs

centuries. The maritime museum in the city focuses on fishing, with displays of historical artefacts, models, and activities such as knot-tying in which visitors can take part. The museum is supported by annual [...] dredger of 1906, and St Gilles a tug built in 1958. Some vintage yachts are also displayed at the museum. Perhaps the great pleasure for visitors is sitting in the bistro bar on the top deck of France I

site was purchased by Leeds City Corporation and opened as the city’s industrial museum in 1982. Visitors to the museum can see an array of textile machinery used and made in Leeds, together with their [...] tailoring, printing and leather industries were also of major importance. The city’s industrial museum is at Armley Mills, located between the River Aire and the Leeds & Liverpool Canal. There have been [...] the city’s printing industry is the board game Monopoly developed by John Waddington from 1922. The museum also displays examples of the products of the city’s extensive leather industry, and a small cinema

Subsequently, at the wish of the last owner, it was taken over by the municipal authority as a technical museum. Every phase of the traditional tanning process is preserved in the works. There are machines to

factory. The formation of a museum was encouraged in the 1950s by the Deutsches Museum at a time when it was believed motor cycles would disappear as cars became cheaper. The museum is located on five floors

The Granite Quarrying Museum in the Königshain Hills 9 km West of Görllitz gives a realistic impression of the working and living conditions of the stone workers. The place where from 1844 to 1975 granite

The aeronautical collections of the Deutsches Museum in Munich have been displayed since 1990 on an airfield at Oberschleissheim on the northern side of the city that was constructed between 1912 and 1919 [...] are some of the earliest of their kind to survive anywhere in Europe. Visitors are able to see the museum’s well-equipped conservation workshops. Exhibits include 25 piston-engined aircraft, mostly German

was placed with much ceremony in the Deutsches Museum in 1958, although similar locomotives continued working until May 1965. Other sections of the museum are concerned with urban transport, particularly [...] The Deutsches Museum’s collections of railway and road vehicles were removed in 2003 to a former exhibition hall in the Theresienhöhe area of Munich. The collection of motor cars is one of the best in [...] in any museum in Europe, and includes a motorised tricycle made by Karl Benz (1844-1929), as well as racing cars and commercial vehicles. There are displays that illustrate methods of manufacturing motor

delivery centre for new cars with a leisure park and the 'ZeitHaus'. The 'ZeitHaus' is a cross-brand car museum that presents around 250 vehicles from over 60 different brands. The exhibition presents around 100