woodturners and 6 for stainers and polishers. A precursor of today's chair museum was established in 1931, and in 1978 the museum already moved to the farm buildings of the castle. Since 2005, a major attraction [...] of the chair-maker Kurt Aehlig, its equipment largely dating back to the early 20th century. The museum also displays chairs of different styles from the Baroque to “Rabenau Thonet chairs”, as well as

Horsens is a city with long commercial and industrial traditions. The Museum was opened in 1977 in the municipal power station building of 1906. Displays including steam engines, printing, brewing and

ly and on a grand scale. Some are now known only to specialists. In the Saxon Commercial Vehicle Museum in Hartmannsdorf near Chemnitz, approximately 50 restored pieces from the much larger inventory of

figures. The museum also features the products of the firm of S F Fischer, who pioneered the manufacture of toy building materials that reflected the theories of Friedrich Froebel. The museum holds extensive [...] town of Seiffen, 32 km south of Freiburg, has been one of the principal centres of the industry. The museum originated in a collection accumulated at the technical school for toy-makers, the Spielzeug-Werbe-Schau [...] which from 1936 was displayed to the public in a former hosiery factory. In its present form the museum dates from 1953. It has a collection of more than 3000 lathe-turned wooden toys and ornaments. The

Karl August Almgren established a silk mill in Stockholm in 1833, and it subsequently grew into a sizeable manufacturing complex, with some four-storey buildings. Some of the Jacquard looms that he in

Sweden’s national museum of science and technology was founded in 1924 under the patronage of several of the country’s leading learned societies and industrial organisations. It is located in a building

base for exploration and for the supply and servicing of rigs. The displays in the purpose-built Museum of the Petroleum Industry, opened in 1999, show the technology of oil exploration and pumping, the

Zampel looms or draw looms. Among the nearly 30 functional machines in the German Damask and Terry Museum is probably the only functional hand-draw damask loom as well as the last surviving terry hand loom

and diesel, most of which are part of the collection of the Deutsches Museum in Munich, although some are from the transport museum in Nuremburg. The other three roads in the roundhouse are used for restoration [...] municipality of Freilassing and the following year work commenced on adapting the buildings as a museum, which opened in 2006. Seventeen of the 20 roads in the roundhouse are used to display locomotives

been responsible for many innovations in constructional vehicles and machinery. The exhibits in the museum at Eskilstuna are all in working order and can be demonstrated when necessary. They include historic

ties of Clausthal and Zellerfeld were united in 1926, the museum moved into the former town hall at Zellerfeld. The 29 galleries of the museum illustrated every aspect of mining for metallic ores from [...] The museum of mining in Clausthal-Zellerfeld was established in 1892 by Adulf Achenbach (1825-1903), a Saarlander who followed a varied career in the service of the Prussian government in several parts [...] open air section includes a stamp mill and other machines moved from mines that have closed. The museum serves as the starting point for tours of the many monuments of mining history in the Upper Harz

two of the world’s largest sea locks, keep the harbours independent of tidal flow. The maritime museum was established in 1972-75. Its collection includes four vessels that conserved on shore, including [...] earliest worked by steam, the latest a portalhubstapler, built for handling containers in 1968. The museum has over 500 models and indoor displays that are focussed on the German merchant fleet of the 1920s

This is a museum, re-opened in 2015 after a comprehensive re-display of its exhibits, which is commended for the authentic smells which greet the visitor at reception, as well as for the appropriate dishes [...] availability of rowing boats and kayaks in which visitors can explore nearby parts of the harbour. The museum is linked with the centre of the Tysksebryggen (German Quay) by a small ferry boat the Beffen .

Paisley Thread Mill Museum opened in 2009 and moved to Mile End Mill in 2016. It is run by volunteers. The town of Paisley was the most important place in Scotland for cotton spinning in the nineteenth [...] well-known for its use in ‘Paisley shawls’ of silk or cotton that women wore across their shoulders. The museum shows models, thread-twisting machines, looms, photographs and advertising images. Many items were [...] 1802 and is now a multinational. Visitors can buy cotton thread and Paisley-pattern textiles in the museum shop.

mining. The house is open to the public and contains a natural history museum. In the stables behind it is the Nottingham Industrial Museum. This was set up by a voluntary group in 1964 and opened in 1971. [...] horse-gin for lifting coal up a shaft. The collection of working steam and diesel engines contains the museum’s first object, a beam engine of 1858 from Basford pumping station, which supplied drinking water

Bradford was often called ‘worstedopolis’ in the nineteenth century and the city’s industrial museum is based in a mill built by one John Moore in the mid-1870s for spinning worsted yarn. Two floors were [...] was constructed as a war memorial. The building was acquired by the city corporation for use as a museum in 1970. There are extensive displays of textile machinery particularly of machines used in the [...] mill managers, and Gaythorne Row, terraced houses once occupied by workpeople are also parts of the museum.

Grampian Transport Museum Association. The museum building opened in 1983 and has subsequently been enlarged, a new reception area having been completed in 2015-16. Adjacent to the museum is the Alford Valley [...] The museum at Alford, 40 km west of Aberdeen, boasts an impressive range of transport exhibits, from travelling chariots, of the 1800's, to some of the fastest cars ever made. Every season the museum refreshes

The IFA Museum celebrates the mechanical engineering tradition of Nordhausen. Nordhausen’s engineering works became part of Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau (IFA), a group of companies across the former German [...] were built at the plant in a secret Soviet project. The IFA Nordhausen factory closed in 1992. The museum’s 50 restored exhibits in one of the IFA buildings include locomotives, tractors and engines as well

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