electrified in 1889. The old engine room and other buildings around the base of the tower are a large museum that tells the story of signalling at sea from ancient times to the present. The authoritative national

the Community Museum. It is inside the impressive Workmen’s Hall, which was built in 1895 by local workers to provide them with a library, meeting rooms and a theatre/concert hall. The museum is run by volunteers

Housed in La Energía, an Art Nouveau building in Plaça del Gas, the Gas Museum takes visitors on a journey through the development of the gas and electricity industries in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The museum at Nancy has one of the most comprehensive collections in Europe illustrating the history of iron-making, with displays that incorporate artefacts, works of art and extracts from literature [...] Europe from earliest times, with a particular emphasis on the emergence of the blast furnace. The museum was founded by Edouard Salin (1889-1970), president of the Lorraine Archaeological Society, whose [...] spectacular building in steel and glass, designed by Jacques and Michel Andre, was opened in 1966. The museum has a strong scientific emphasis, and its founder established an archaeometallurgical laboratory

opened a museum which formed part of their plant at Hurum, 12 miles south-east of Drammen, on the site of the factory established in 1875-76 by Alfred Nobel (1833-96). The inauguration of the museum marked [...] formed part of the factory, of which 12 were used by the museum, were taken under the protection of the county of Buskerud, but the future of the museum remains uncertain. The buildings are characteristic of [...] anniversary of Nobel’s birth. Subsequently the factory closed, the voluntary association that staffed the museum ceased to function, and the Australian company which owns the site expressed its intention to clear

Agricola that were widely practiced in northern Europe before the Industrial Revolution. The island museum service has a seaweed farm, with a mill constructed from timbers of wrecked ships, and displays concerned

which worked until 1941, is preserved. The history of ironmaking in the town is portrayed in the museum, and also in a firm entitled Iron, commissioned by the Uddeholm company in 1936, which includes sequences

The restored colliery site of the Katzenberg Mine with the museum of the Cockerill Mine, the adjacent nature reserve and the Nature Conservation Centre Ellergronn is a particular jewel with a very rich [...] industrial heritage for future generations. Today, one of the renovated houses used as a small mining museum where miners’ tools are displayed, among which the drills are particularly noteworthy. Various archived

pursues these objectives, acting as an interface between heritage institutions (archives, libraries, museums), the voluntary sector, research, and the general public. The CDMH collects archives, manages a [...] CDMH is to make known the history of the inhabitants of the “Italie” district on the context of a “museum without walls”. It is in this context that the CDMH regularly organises trips in the district to

preservation of Klingenthal), which worked on the establishment of an exemplary museum since 1994. Opened in 2007, the museum illustrates the production of bladed weapons by elaborately reconstructed workshops

Mining Museum from 1980. The Mining museum is unique technical museum of coal mining in Serbia, but it also presents assets and social history of Senjski Rudnik. The most attractive part of the museum is still [...] dated from 1874.In June 2009 the project of rehabilitation of the site and transformation of the Museum to modern national industrial heritage centre has been started, supported by the EU and Council of

The museum consists of the "1900 machining workshop", "the smithy" and the exhibition and learning room, where the technological evolution of the industry is shown in an educational and documentary way [...] , technical descriptions and practical examples with real machining operations. In addition, the Museum serves as a didactic guide to show young generations the origin and evolution of the different t

to the present day. Among the exhibits on display in the museum are an extensive collection of arms originally housed in the Armoury School museum and a wide variety of products manufactured in Eibar like [...] several centuries. Located on the 5th floor of the former arms factory 'Aguirre y Aranzabal' the museum gives visitors an insight into the evolution of the town's industrial past and technological developments

has been created in the centre of Linares in the old goods shed of the Madrid railway station. The museum has information panels, historical objects and models and provides information about visiting the

that time the museum had no collections. It was recognised as a national museum in 1990 and from 1991 began to co-ordinate the work of 16 museums in other parts of Serbia. In 2005 the Museum was offered [...] The Museum of Science and Technology in Serbia was formally constituted on the initiative of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts in 1989, although many proposals for such a project had been put forward [...] centre that holds materials on many aspects of industrial and technological history in Serbia. The Museum is a location on the cultural route 'Tesla Ways'.

manages the train service. Several other organisations have museums or facilities along the route. The West Somerset Steam Railway has a small museum at Blue Anchor, and the Somerset & Dorset Railway Trust [...] a collection of railway artefacts at Washford. The former goods shed at Watchet is occupied by a museum of boats. The West Somerset Railway Association, which owns two locomotives and has shares in others [...] depot at Williton, alongside the workshops of the Diesel and Electric Group. There is also a railway museum in the former goods shed at Bishops Lydeard. The operating base of the railway is at Minehead where

tower – with Kidderminster, a former carpet-making centre and now the site of a fascinating railway museum. The railway line follows the twists and turns of the Severn through an idyllic rural valley almost

concrete structure, with no reinforcing, the concrete having been poured in to timber form-work. A museum in the chalet-style railway station at Glenfinnan has displays relating to the construction of the [...] and in the summer months a stop long enough to enable travellers to inspect the viaduct and see the museum is made there by the Jacobite steam train from Fort William to Mallaig, which is operated by West

Back-to-Backs, then stroll round the beautiful Bournville Village and visit the Cadbury Collection museum at the factory, which charts the history of the estate – and where you can watch ultra-modern robots

building would be an appropriate location for a museum to tell the story of Great Yarmouth and its herring industry. The aroma of herring still lingers in the museum´s buildings, providing a unique experience [...] Time and Tide, the Museum of Great Yarmouth Life, occupies the premises of the former Tower Fish Curing Works. The works closed in 1988 and in the following year it was first suggested that the building [...] site was purchased in 1988 and £4.7 million was spent in converting the former curing works into a museum and installing the displays. After two years of work on the project it opened in July 2004. Brief