A rare chance to re-live the days when steam ran the world! Whether you´re interested in local or social history, textiles and textile machinery or just looking for an afternoon out with a difference,

Toijala lies south of Tampere on the main railway line linking the city with Helsinki. The locomotive museum is located in a roundhouse of the 1870s. Its collection of about 20 locomotives consists primarily

The textile machinery collection is an extremely important one. The museum began collecting textile machines in the 19th century and amongst the items at the heart of this collection is the only surviving [...] equipment used in the local cotton, silk and man-made fibre industries and ancillary trades. Bolton Museum & Art Gallery´s displays chart the story of Bolton and the people who have lived here. See how people [...] people dressed, worked and relaxed or listen to some of the local stories we have collected. Bolton Museum and Art Gallery is one of the largest regional galleries in the North West. It houses collections

The former Museum of Rail and Track at Angelholm is administered jointly with the collection at Gavle by Banverket, the national railway company. The museum, located in a locomotive shed of 1898, portrays

bricks. The works closed in 1968 but a successful community initiative led to the establishment of a museum encompassing the surviving buildings in 1993. Visitors can explore 7 ha. of clay pits, the drying [...] the pier on the edge of the site from which bricks were despatched by sea. The site is part of the Museum Sønderjylland, and is the venue for many cultural events.

so it is not surprising that two motorcycle museums are located in direct proximity, especially since they complement each other perfectly. While the museum at Wildeck Castle in Zschopau gets more points [...] 1885 to the present day. In this way, the “crown of the Ore Mountains” is the largest motorcycle museum in Europe. Particular highlights of the exhibition are motorsport productions with historical films

Birkenhead is the historic home of the first street tramway in Europe. It was here on August 29 1860 that Europe´s first tramway was established, running from Woodside to Birkenhead Park. This early s

g, the electors’ residence at Meissen 24 km NW of the city. The porcelain department of the city museum service has one of the best collections of its kind in Europe, including numerous pieces from China

of Liberty in New York harbour was cast in 1876-85 with copper from the Visnes mines. The mining museum is located in the restored home of the first director of the mines, Charles Defrance, born in Metz

mixing and shaping processes, control technology and packaging techniques. The centre also includes a museum detailing the company’s history over more than a century. There is also a studio in which cooking

Holt, which has spacious car parking facilities. It is also home to the William Marriott Railway Museum that tells the story of the line, located in the rebuilt goods shed. The line was originally opened

illustrates the industrial history of the region with a selection of 51 sites, including exciting museums as well as active plants. Leading sectors are mining, textile industry, vehicles and transport, food

Møvik lies 8 km south-west of Kristiansand and is the location of Bunker 55 or Batterie Vara, a gun emplacement built by the Wehrmacht after the invasion of Norway, and named after Major-General Felix

industry from the early nineteenth century, after which the spirit became popular all over Europe. The museum which tells the story of the industry is located in a mansion house of 1829 that was one of the first [...] can see how trees were protected from rodents and other pests, and how the fruit was harvested. The museum displays show how kirsch was manufactured and marketed. Visitors can see oak barrels and copper stills

The Großauheim Museum has been housed in the former power station and in the historical bathhouse since 1983. It has been fundamentally overhauled and its contents given a new direction in the past few [...] Stache was added to the historical exhibits in 2014. The sounds of the machines exhibited in the museum form the sculpture’s acoustic basis. A historical box with old switches and dials is there to give

The museum at Canillo holds a large collection of motor bicycles, supplemented by examples loaned by museum supporters. Some date from the early years of the twentieth century, including a Française-Diamant [...] military BMW from the Second World War which seated four soldiers and was armed with a machine gun. The museum occupies semi-underground premises beneath the car park of the church St Joan de Casalles.

Ironworking was important in Thuringia by the 14th century and by the 16th century the town of Schmalkalden, 40 km south-east of Eisenach, was famous for the manufacture of cutlery. The principal monu

a welcome change to the every day life of the museum. The path of clay to the unglazed clay body, to "Obernai" faience plates is traced in the New Museum of Faience Techniques in the Blies Mill. The methods [...] contrast, the old residence of Paul de Geiger is elegant and colourful. It now houses the Faience Museum. The heart of the house contains a winter garden, a mecca for lovers of the culture of representation

The Museum tells the story of the social history of the Cynon Valley from 1800 to the present. Audio visual presentations in the gallery include films on the iron industry around 1830 and the Miner’s Strike [...] to be used for educational visits. The temporary exhibition gallery houses displays based on the museums collections and the Art Gallery has a programme of contemporary art and design, bringing works and

Jezera Mountains in Bohemia, and was a municipality in the Sudentenland between 1938 and 1945. The museum is located at beautiful site of Jizera mountains landscape in former textile factory “Baumwollspinerei [...] half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. The most valuable exhibit of the museum is the building itself: the site was listed as a cultural monument in March 2011.There are three