The museum is a centre for documenting, preserving and communicating the industrial history of the town of Lohne and its region in Lower Saxony. The present museum opened in 2000 to bring together existing [...] family from about 1950 and an exhibition about rail transport. Nearby a museum store holds large equipment and machinery. The museum has a specialism in conserving waterlogged wood from prehistory as well [...] processing is still a significant industry in the town. All of these sectors are represented in the museum displays. There is also an exhibition about the Fuldamobil car and a steam engine that runs on steam

combines a low density with strength and forms a very useful building material. The German Pumice Museum is in the Volcano geopark, where pumice has been mined since the mid-nineteenth century. The stone [...] smaller foundations than heavier materials and also have properties of thermal insulation. The open-air museum is set out like a block-making works of the post-war period. It shows mechanical excavators for mining

exhibition at the Deutsches Museum in Munich and then opened their own museum at Espelkamp in 1995. In 2007, 650 machines came from Jean-Claude Baudot of Paris. Since 2013, the museum has been at Benkhausen [...] This subject of this unusual museum is coin machines for playing games, selling things or playing music – a place unusually full of colour and sound. It presents the collection of the Gauselmann family

The museum presents the history of the knitwear industry in the area around Albstadt, about 60 kilometres south of Stuttgart. Knitted textiles have continuous yarn while weaving has interlaced yarn. It [...] began as a domestic industry and moved into factories in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The museum is in a former building of Mayer & Cie, which today has a factory outside the town. It displays more

The Museum of Vierzon is housed in part of the former factory for the Société Française de Vierzon tractor company, which once extended for 7 hectares. It presents the story of industry and transport in [...] and tractors. Several of these are on show. The city was an important railway hub from 1847 and the museum has an important collection begun by Raymond Laumônier about the history of railways. This includes

for a museum that is a celebration of printing, typography and books. In a time when so much printing is digital, Colophon demonstrates its passion for paper, type and hand-made books. The museum is housed [...] devoted to materials for writing – feather quills, inkwells, paper – and a bookbinding workshop. The museum gives workshops for groups and schoolchildren. Colophon also publishes and prints books here and

the miners at the end of their shift – as a foretaste of a visit to the open air playground and the museum restaurant.

The collection displayed in the Cite de l’Automobile now belongs to the French nation and is regard as being to motorcars what the Louvre is to art. It has curious origins. The Swiss brothers Hans (19

quarters and research facilities in the city even if production has moved elsewhere. The textile museum in the former Monforts Maschinenfabrik in the Monfort Quarter of the city opened in 2015. It includes [...] of the city’s textile industries is illustrated with numerous photographs. Mönchengladbach’s art museum was established in 1904 and built up a comprehensive collection of twentieth century paintings broken [...] Abteiberg designed by Hans Hollein (1934-2014), opened in 1982 and was re-constructed in 2006-07. The museum fosters links between the city’s textile industries and practising artists and it holds collections

performances, and the museum regularly stages temporary exhibitions from elsewhere in Norway, film shows and multi-media presentations. It is part of a larger project for museums in Nordland and has links [...] There are few more remote industrial heritage sites than the Norwegian fishing industry museum at Melbu on the island of Hadseløya, 236 km west of Narvik. Christian Fredriksen (1865-1929), who made a fortune [...] in Melbu from circa 1890. A large fish-processing plant continues to operate on the island. The museum, opened in 1991, and is located in the substantial buildings of the former Neptun Sildoljefabrik

a doll-making family from Sonneberg. Visitors to the museum can also go to the showrooms and factories of toy manufacturers in Neustadt. The museum arranges a festival of dolls annually on Ascension Day [...] from Sonneberg in Thuringia, less than 10 km to the north, which was incorporated in the DDR. The museum, opened in 1984, claims to be the oldest of its kind in Germany and is based on a large collection

opened in 1899 and closed in 1974, but in 1971, even before it closed, a museum society was running trains for tourists. A museum was formally established in 1978 and now operates trains over a 14.2 km [...] house. The headquarters, workshops and souvenir shop of the railway are at Minkiö, together with a museum with artefacts from most narrow gauge railways in Finland. Visitors can take guided tours of the

In the exhibition area you can see 19th and 20th century quarrying technology, including a stonegate saw and a fully equipped forge. An 1100-metre long nature trail leads around the Kesselbruch. Displ

models is presented. At anchor are three museum ships: the three-master "Duchesse Anne", the lightship "Sandettie" and the inland waterway vessel "Guilde". The museum also includes a lighthouse of 66m hight [...] The harbour museum is housed in a former tobacco warehouse dating from 1869 on the Quai de Citadelle at the Bassin de Commerce. It tells of the herring fishery of the Middle Ages, the naval wars during

grew in the twentieth century and remains important. The region is filled with almond trees. The museum is owned by a confectionary company and is located in the southern corner of the ‘City of Turrón’

This museum of the graphic arts and printing is located in the sixteenth-century monastery of Santa Maria at Puig near Valencia. Copying manuscripts in the scriptorium was the main way to reproduce text [...] text until the invention of printing. The museum argues that the printing press led to an intellectual transformation by making texts accessible beyond readers in monasteries and great houses. It created [...] created new opportunities for both reader and writer. The museum offers a tour through the history of printing, from its origins to the present day. It begins with a reconstruction of a fifteenth-century printing

The museum is run by the Gómez Planche foundation in collaboration with Salamanca city council. It was opened in 2002 in the former building of the Salamanca electricity company. It aims to show the evolution [...] mechanical engineering equipment, bicycles and design artefacts such as posters and insignia. The museum changes its exhibitions regularly to show the vehicles in their historical context.

The Museum of Paper (Museu Valencia del Paper in the Valencian language) is one of a group of museums in the municipal park of Banyeres de Mariola near Alicante. It occupies the Villa Rosario, built in [...] It opened in 1997 and was refurbished in 2019 to show the history of paper making in Valencia. The museum shows machinery and equipment and models of paper mills with interpretation panels and audiovisuals

using electricity from overhead cables, like a tram without rails. There are more than 60 in the museum, together with some diesel buses and other vehicles. The oldest date from the 1920s, but there is [...] the trolleybus is also reflected in some reconstructed shop windows and a prefabricated house. The museum was opened by independent collectors and enthusiasts in 1971. It can be visited on special open days

simulator allows visitors to find out what it would be like to fly such an early aircraft. Outside the museum, visitors can take a guided tour of the wind tunnels used to test aerodynamics.