The Museum of Liverpool is one of the group of national museums in the city that includes the International Slavery Museum and the Maritime Museum. It covers topics from prehistoric archaeology to The [...] The Beatles. It opened on the historic waterfront as the Museum of Liverpool Life in 1993 and moved in 2011 to a new building conceived by the Danish architects 3XN. The ground-floor displays focus on the

The Museum of Transport and Commerce at Hull has a long history. It began in around 1925 as one of the city’s museums. It moved to a new building in 2002 with the name Streetlife. The museum focuses on

many exhibits that show the evolution of aircraft through the first half of the 20th century. The museum’s Blériot XI biplane from 1909 is the world's oldest aeroplane that still flies. Among other aircraft

Near the city centre of Zaporizhia is The Boguslaev Technical Museum, also known as the Museum of Aviation and High-Tech “Motor Sich”. Opened in 2013, it is housed in an elegant building on the edge of [...] engines and gas turbines. The factory was destroyed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The museum contains a unique and impressive display of piston and jet engines together with models and examples

The museum occupies two architecturally impressive water towers in Khreshchatyi Park, near the River Dnipro in the centre of the Ukrainian capital. The towers were built in 1872 and 1876 and reconstructed

Center in the four-storey former Rörstrand porcelain factory includes a museum of porcelain manufacturing. Opened in 2022, the museum explores three centuries of high-quality stoneware, earthenware and porcelain [...] makes tableware and decorative pieces overseas. It began its collection in the 19 th century and the museum now contains around 18,000 items. As well as examples of ceramics from the whole history of Rörstrand

The vast Kiruna iron ore mine In Lapland is operated by the Swedish mining company LKAB. The ore resource was known for centuries but remoteness and harsh climate prevented exploitation. Finally, surf

With about 300 vehicles on display, this is said to be the largest car museum in Sweden. It shows everyday and working vehicles alongside extraordinary cars. It opened in 2015 and is based on the personal [...] station built in the United States and installed in Sweden at Torsboda has been re-erected in the museum.

The tile museum at the town of Onda, 50km north of Valencia, was started in 1968. It moved recently to a purpose-built and spacious gallery and was renamed for the Onda artist and ceramicist Manolo Safont [...] Safont (1928-2005). The museum is focused on architectural ceramics in Valencia. Onda is famous for its decorative tiles and ceramic murals and also for its decorated earthenware plates, bowls, jugs and [...] and basins. The museum collections totalling over 30,000 items, including tiles, vessels, tools, equipment and documents. They range in date from Roman times to the present day, and especially the 19 th and

Located in the industrial city of Vassa, this is Finland’s largest private car museum. Owned by Vaasa Vintage Car Society, it opened in 1981 and moved to its present building in 2010. It explores the history

purchased by the local authority in 1996. It became part of the MNACTEC network of Catalan technology museums and opened to visitors in 2009. Above the gate is a sign that says ‘Fabrica de Alcohol Vinico’. Inside

At Riihimaki, north of Helsinki, is Finland’s national museum of the glass industry. The origins of the museum were in 1961 but in 1980 it relocated to a former industrial building. This began in 1914 [...] crystal. The beautiful spaces and elegant displays of the museum were created by the leading designer Tapio Wirkkala. The focus of the museum is on the three centuries of the glass industry in Finland [...] design. There are temporary exhibitions of historical collections and contemporary glass artists. The museum also houses a research library and archive. Nearby are other glassworks buildings adapted to new

altitude of 1,250m in the Pyrenees is open from June to September as part of MNACTEC, the technical museums network of Catalunya. It comprises a sawmill, a flour mill and a hydro-electric power plant using

building in 2012, an architecturally distinguished post office in the centre of the capital. The museum preserves objects and documents to present the history of postal services, telegraph, telephone, [...] tower built in in 1933 show why it is still the symbol of Hungarian broadcasting. Branches of the museum can be found in other parts of Hungary.

The ENTER Museum takes its name from the 'Enter' key on a computer keyboard and the English word for 'enter'. It is a museum of computers and consumer electronics that was created from private collections [...] collections brought together in the 1990s and has been on display since 2010.. In 2023, the museum moved into a new building in Derendingen to the east of Solothurn, where, in addition to the exhibition, an academy [...] station from 1922 has been preserved, and dozens of radios of various brands fill the shelves. The museum displays the first electronic desktop computer from 1961, a large IBM 370 from 1970, the first Apple

also remains of processing buildings and some surviving timber ore-stamps. As well as seeing the museum, visitors can take organised walks that begin in the tunnels and end in Montecatini’s centre and

Genova is one of the world’s historic maritime cities. The purpose-built maritime museum in the Galata docks area opened when Genova was European Capital of Culture in 2004. It has 200,000 visitors a year [...] brigantine Anna and a timber ship under construction in an eighteenth-century shipbuilding yard. The museum has 4,300 objects to use in thematic displays, for example about the Roman galleys once built here [...] also experience the conditions on a real submarine, the Nazario Sauro , which floats in front of the museum.

Olive Press Museum. The factory was opened by Nikolaos Vranas in 1887 and worked until it was abandoned in 1978. In 2005, the Archipelagos Society began a restoration and opened it as a museum in 2009. An

history of the town of Tramagal, which itself became a brand name. The museum opened in 2017 in the former MDF factory in Tramagal. The museum follows the history of the MDF company from when it was established

Kemal Ataturk (1881-1938). The company was privatised in 1997 and production ceased in 2005. The museum occupies the four storeys of the mill and includes large machines both for paper-making and printing