departments occupy parts of the nineteenth century Gothic revival castle. The Irish Agricultural Museum is housed in the castle’s outbuildings and was opened in 1971. Its collections include large numbers

The Irish Steam Preservation Society has its museum at Stradbally. Its collection includes steam locomotives from the Guinness brewery in Dublin and the railways of the Bord Na Móna (turf/peat authority)

the mines and quarries of the English Lake District. The granite quarry that is the centre of the museum was opened in 1870 to provide ballast for the railway from Penrith to Keswick. It continued to supply [...] opportunities to pan minerals from waste tips. The Vintage Excavator Trust has its headquarters at the museum.

worked on the line in the 1920s and 30s are employed, but one locomotive comes from Norway. There is a museum describing the works of Colonel Stephens at Tenterden station.

This is emphatically a museum of road transport, particularly of buses. More than seventy vehicles are displayed in what seems to visitors to be a huge bus garage. The museum is maintained almost entirely

This museum is managed by the local authority and based in Lisburn’s seventeenth century market hall. Its purpose is ‘to present, preserve and interpret through collection, research, exhibitions and e [...] 1830s under his sons. Both branches continued into the twentieth century but closed in the 1950s. The museum has a permanent exhibition ‘Flax to Fabric – the story of Irish Linen’ and there are practical d [...] photographic collections illustrating the linen trade, examples from which have been published in the museum’s popular advent calendars.

industrial museum in the mid-1980s. It was one of the last of a succession of conventional indoor industrial museums developed in large towns and cities in the United Kingdom from the 1960s. The museum was initially [...] by a body of enthusiasts, the Calderdale Industrial Museum Association, and from 2017 was again open to the public but on Saturdays only. The museum is located in the former Albion Works in the centre

Manchester between 1873 and 1926. Four are normally in traffic, two are in the museum, and one is sectioned in the Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester. The line is usually open during the tourist [...] passed through many changes in ownership but is now managed by the Manx government. The railway’s museum at Port Erin, displays two locomotives, the Queen’s coach and the governor’s saloon, together with

basilica dedicated to Saint Nicholas, patron saint of Lorraine, which houses some of his relics. The museum is based in a four-storey brewery of 1931 designed in the Art Deco style by Fernand Caesar (1879-1969)

with the support of the city of Trollhättan and the Marcus and Amelia Wallenberg foundation. The museum displays more than 120 vehicles, most of them variants of the main Saab models.

The Swedish Airforce Museum was established in 1984, on an airfield 7 km west of the centre of Linkőping, named after Carl Cederstrőm (1867-1918), the ‘flying baron’, who trained with Louis Blériot (1872-1936) [...] laboratory and the workings of a control tower, and experience flying on a simulator. A feature of the museum is the wreck of a Swedish DC3 aircraft shot down by a Soviet MIG fighter over the Baltic in 1952

Mines in the Karavanke mountains near Mezica (formerly Miess), which lies close to the border with Austria, north-west of Velenje, were worked from the 17th century, and were one of the principal sour

hat-wearing in Germany, as in the rest of Europe, has declined, and the last factory closed in 2010. The museum is based around a collection of hats first exhibited in 1981. Since 2014 it has been exhibited in [...] participate. Displays show the various materials used in hats, and a variety of famous hat wearers. The museum has an auditorium, an assembly room and a restaurant in the former boiler house.

beer. There is also a brewery museum. Guided tours are organised every day on which visitors can see the brewery and watch brewers at work, as well as seeing the museum which tells the history of brewing

century that most people in the valley were acquainted with at least one smith. The blacksmiths’ museum was established in 1996 and provides a comprehensive view of the history of the craft, with displays [...] of the company. Gatherings of as many as sixty blacksmiths from all over Europe take place at the museum, and there are special celebrations each year in honour of St Eloi, patron saint of metal workers

emphasis is on cars that were in everyday use by ordinary people. This museum prides itself in being one of the few French car museums not to have a Bugatti. [...] as well as vehicles for Berliet and Ford. He was also responsible for various television sets. The museum is managed by an association of mechanics and car enthusiasts, many of whom own exhibits. More than

it came under the control of three large companies who concentrated production in factories. The museum is located in the factory opened by Richard Chambovet (1772-1851) in 1807, originally for the production [...] corsets. In the late nineteenth century, under the management of his sons, it had 300 employees. The museum displays examples of historic machines associated with the manufacture of braids and laces including [...] Visitors can also see the 6 m diameter water wheel from which the factory originally drew its power. The museum also displays a great variety of sample fabrics.

suffered from the successive recessions of the twentieth century and ceased production in 2001. The museum displays the paternal aspects of C J Bonnet et Cie, including the provision of food shops for employees

The Cyprus Motor Museum was founded by the internationally successful rally driver Dimi Mauropoulos (b 1949) and its core is his personal collection of 90 vehicles. The museum opened in 2014 but re-located [...] used in Mr Bean films, as well as a London double-decker bus and a fire engine from Nottingham. The museums makes available classic cars for tours of the island or for weddings.

completed. The power station was regarded in the 1930s as a symbol of the country’s modernisation. The museum within the granite power station building uses interactive displays to show the impact of electricity