National Portuguese Railway Museum and stands next to its successor: the Presidential Train, which was used by the uncrowned heads of state from 1910 to 1970. But the museum, with its exhibition area of [...] transmission. Small guests can climb a model train on the museum’s premises, and a ride on the pedal-driven trolley along one of the 19 museum lines is big fun for families.

operating here until 1996. Its elaborately restored buildings house, amongst others, a multimedia museum illustrating the history of the Lower Silesian coal industry. The exhibits feature mining equipment

meadows and blossoming fields of tulips. There is a further attraction in Medemblik: the local railway museum. This contains wonderfully restored locomotives and wagons, as well as two amazing tramway box-cabs

furnace in Wenden were enclosed in huts to protect them from the weather. Here in the region of Olpe a museum has been opened to show the gradual growth of iron and steel manufacturing, the origins of which

years. The museum on a part of the site is now in the process of extending its exhibition on textile manufacturing. A number of small companies have set up business in and around the museum site – new [...] into a living present! That said, all the power-generating machines in the Johann Wülfing & Sohn Museum in Radevormwald are still completely intact. Another brilliant item is a glittering two-cylinder [...] powerful apparatus is turning once again at regular intervals for show demonstrations. Visitors to the museum can get an idea of how the power was transmitted via the line shafts to the various production d

worsted yarns, and was extended at various times in the nineteenth century. It was re-opened as a museum enterprise in 1982, and still produces high quality worsted knitting yarns. Visitors are able to

The mill closed in 1977 and was soon afterwards designated a national monument. It is the home of a museum of working-class life managed by the Föreningen Göteborgs Remfabrik.

‘stadt der 100 Schomstein’ (the town of 100 chimneys). The textile museum, which is part of the Sächsisches Industriemuseum (The Saxony museum of industry), is located in a factory built by the firm of Pfau [...] monument in 1990, and in 1993 an association was established with the aim of developing it as a textile museum. Restoration of the building began in 1996 and the project was completed in 2003. O n their tour

abandoned. The factory closed in 1972 when most of the machinery was cleared, but was revived as a museum which opened in 1997 with machines of the early 20th century brought in from elsewhere. Displays [...] fulling and other finishing processes are demonstrated, and to the dyehouse. The highlight of the museum is a section in which letters, parish documents, family traditions and photographs have been used [...] Landefeld, an apprentice in the 1960s, details the decline of textile manufacturing in Bramsche. The museum is a starting point for tours of the historic city of Bramsche and for a network of cycling and hiking

block was reserved for use as a museum. Earlier there had been proposals for an open air museum in Tampere but it was decided that it would be more appropriate to create a museum within a block of existing

The Museum of Municipal Engineering in Krakow was established in 1998 in a tram depot, built in 1882 and successively enlarged in 1896, 1900, 1913-4 and 1926-9. It is primarily a museum of public transport [...] exhibition in an annexe of motor cars, which includes most of the marques that were made in Poland. The museum is one of the major attractions on the Krakow Industrial Heritage Route that includes 15 other important

extensively used for timber haulage, but there were also steam boat passenger services. The canal’s museum is at Ørje, alongside the three locks that link the lakes Rødenessjøen and Øymarksjøen. It is located [...] about timber hauling on the canal and the subsequent use of the wood for making pulp and paper. The museum also has sections dealing with ecology, and is a centre for outdoor pursuits. More than 20 steamboats

church of 1761 at the old market square symbolises the significance of the Silver Works. The mining museum is situated in a preserved smeltery from 1844, displaying a unique collection of native silver as

be stored here. Now the warehouse building in the Gloucester Docks houses the National Waterways Museum. Artificial waterways. Central England is full of canals. They were the most important transport [...] Gloucester Docks. The freight boats did not simply move around of their own accord. A visit to the museum will reveal a lot about the arduous lives of the boatmen. Here, for example, you can find out what

additions. The Works was decommissioned in 1965 and closed except for showroom and was re-opened as a Museum in 1987. When you have visited Fakenham, take the long distance Town Gas Works Trail to see the other

locomotive was demonstrated in Berlin in 1879 by Werner von Siemens (1816-92) and is now in the Deutsches Museum in Munich. The first public electric railway began to carry passengers along the sea front at Brighton

The Association pour le Musée de Transports Urbains, Interurbaines et Ruraux (AMTUIR) is a voluntary body formed in 1957 when tram lines were closing throughout France and indeed in most of Europe. Di

The Norwegian Forest Museum, on the banks of the River Glomma, is concerned with all aspects of the country’s forests, with ecology and hunting, as well as with forest industries. It is one of the best [...] hunters, and more modern prefabricated wooden buildings. A bridge over the river links the forest museum to the Glomdalsmuseum, an open-air collection of buildings from the Glomma valley, established in

from 1730. Many of the early entrepreneurs in the trade were Scots. The first of the piers where the museum is located was built by William Gordon in 1749, and the galleried warehouse which is its main building

the public, and is managed by a local body of volunteers in association with the Aalborg Historical Museum. Visitors can see the forges, tools and equipment used to shape tools of various kinds, and the steam