installed in 1974. The building was restored in 1997 and is a branch of the Norwegian Telecommunications Museum.

Chelmsford Museum’s new Bright Sparks Exhibition gives a fascinating insight into the achievements of the late 19th century industrial pioneers Guglielmo Marconi, R.E.B.Crompton and the Hoffmann Manufacturing

century waterway which linked the town to the copper port of Morwellham Quay on the River Tamar. The museum is located in the centre of the town and occupies two rooms above the historic Court Gate. It has

Polish paper industry financed the museum project. Some objects and portraits relating to the history of papermaking are displayed, but the most important feature of the museum is that it preserves the centuries-old [...] built in 1605 has now been working for more than 400 years, although since 1968 it has operated as a museum. Some of the 17th and 18th century papermakers in the town were from Saxony and Bohemia. From 1742

was commissioned at Tumba. The mill continues in production, in American ownership. The adjacent museum, located in three renovated buildings associated with the mill, one of them a malthouse, has displays

The Klevfos museum, 20 km east of Hamar, is a conserved chemical wood pulp and paper mill, built in 1888, which once made 3000 tonnes pa of sulphate pulp that was used to make wrapping paper. Most of the

an area of water covering more than 18,000 hectares. You can now find out how it was done in the museum of the old De Cruquius pumping station, one of the three steam-powered stations which were built

The cement museum at Donostia was established in 2000 by the company which now forms part of the Heidelberg group, and still has a plant in Donostia-San Sebastián. The museum occupies a modern building

Biggar is a small market town mostly built along a single main street. As in most towns in the United Kingdom, a company was established in the nineteenth to provide coal gas, initially for lighting b

Beamish, once called the North of England Open Air Museum and now ‘the living museum of the north’, occupies a site of more than 100 ha 14 km north-west of Durham City. It was established in the 1960s [...] of north-east England. Its most important industrial exhibits relate to the coalfield in which the museum is situated. Visitors can go underground into a drift mine, and the surface buildings of a characteristic [...] e practices of the North Eastern Railway are displayed at Rowley station, which was moved to the museum from its original situation. Beamish has a notable record in researching and interpreting the development

The National Print Museum collects, documents, preserves, exhibits, interprets and makes accessible the material evidence of the printing crafts and associated skills in Ireland since the introduction [...] Hopkinson & Cope of London, Linotype machines, Monotype casters and Heidelberg printing machines. The museum holds large numbers of blocks, metal and wooden type fonts and photographs, and also displays the [...] the Easter Rising of 1916, and a Wharfedale machine similar to that on which it was printed. The museum maintains a lively programme of practical activities during which participants can learn about l

magnificent Victorian steam engine, once part of the local coal mine. Today it stands as a community museum and visitors can experience the massive engine in operation and learn about local history. New Tredegar

a mining site with a long and rich history of its own, Tellure offers an exciting combination of museum areas, interactive workshops, 3-D images and visits to authentic silver mines which have been carefully

Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen. Today his birthplace Odense is home to the Danish Railway Museum that brings new life to the pioneering spirit of railway vehicles. Dozens of historic locomotives

Forth near Edinburgh operates trains over an 8 km track, and includes Scotland’s largest railway museum which opened in 1995, and is located 500 m from Bo’ness station. It collection consists chiefly of [...] Brighton in 1955. A 4-4-0 of the Great North of Scotland Railway, Gordon Highlander, is on loan at the museum. Also on display are a vintage Glasgow Subway car and one of the ‘Blue Train’ electric units introduced

St Pierreville is a small town between the mountains of the Ardéche and the Rhone Valley. Ardelaine is a co-operative established late in the twentieth century when it was realised that sheep farmers

at the battle of Trafalgar. A magnificent model of the famous ship is one of the highlights in the museum on the site. Visitors can also go on an 18th century adventure exploring the dockyard in 1758 and

This unique, award winning museum is set in over 7 acres of historic canal port and is home to the world’s largest floating collection of inland waterway craft. Set in the old dock complex overlooking [...] the Mersey Estuary, the museum allows you to discover the fascinating social and industrial history of Britains canals. Hop aboard and explore the narrow boat cabins to experience how families lived and

Large objects from the collection of the National Museum of Science & Industry that cannot be displayed at South Kensingon are held at the former RAF base at Wroughton, Wiltshire, in six hangars and a

staff of the city museum service, called for support for its restoration. It was duly restored by volunteer and was opened to the public in 1991. The Etruria museum is part of the city museum service, but