GAA fiercely defended what it perceived as Irish cultural integrity. Its history is portrayed in a museum at the stadium. Until 1971 members were forbidden to participate in ‘foreign’ sports, and until 2005

Aeroseum, located in what was once a secret underground military base dating from 1955, is principally a museum of military aircraft of the Cold War period but it includes some exhibits relating to civilian air [...] air accident, and was confined to a wheelchair but nevertheless continued to fly. Since 2008 the museum has held the Swedish military heritage collection. Aircraft on display include Draken and Viggen

Gnosjö Industrimuseum (Gnosjö Industrial Museum) is the collective name given to the museums and conserved monuments relating to metal-working around the small town of Gnosjö, 65 km south-west of Jönköping [...] The project is jointly managed by the municipality of Gnosjö and the two principal museums. The Töllstorp open air museum includes a farmstead and a working corn mill, but its industrial focus is a series [...] wooden, metal and leather products. The factory at Gnosjö closed in 1974, and was conserved as a museum by the Stiftelsen J E Hyténs. Features include a generator displayed at the Stockholm Exhibition

haulage. The history of the river and of the communities on its banks is illustrated in the regional museum at Drobeta Jurnu-Severin.

Pewter House), La Musée de la Poeslerie (the Museum of Pots and Pans) and La Fonderie des Cloches Gornille-Havard (the Gornille-Havard Bell Foundry). A museum of Norman furniture and a lace workshop can

stone of the Musée Aeroscopia was laid in 2011 and it opened to the public in 2015. Visitors to the museum use the same entrance and people taking tours of the assembly line of the A380 airliner or of the [...] factory generally which are managed by Manatour which shares the same address and telephone number. The museum tells the story of aviation in France from the early twentieth century. It incorporates the collection

Marinum is a maritime museum located in a former shipyard which has a collection of about 100 vessels most of them built in south-west Finland. The trust which manages the museum was created in 1998 and [...] the following year it brought about the merger of the existing Turku Maritime Museum and the Åbo Akademi University Museum of Maritime History which dated from 1936. The Finns were one of the last nations [...] commercial voyages in large sailing vessels after the Second World War and it is appropriate that the museum has two ‘tall ships’, Suomen Joutsen, so named from 1930, a square-rigged three-masted vessel, built

The city museum of Eisenerz, centrally located in the Old Town Hall at the Bergmannplatz since 2011, takes the visitor back to the heyday of local ironwork in the 16th century, with the prestigious council [...] council chamber of 1583 and the former jail as proper setting. The museum tour leads visitors from the ground floor to the attic, vividly illustrating the rich history of Eisenerz with particular reference

and many new buildings were erected during the Cold War. The base closed in 2004 and now houses a museum of military history, featuring Denmark’s role in the Cold War, and particularly displaying heavy

Danmarks Flymuseum (The Danish Air Museum) at Skjern in West Jutland, near the Ringkøping Fjord, is a commercial venture that originated in 1971 when a group of enthusiasts formed the Danish Veteran Collection

1913 now house the museum. The displays include pots and pans, smoothing irons, window frames and heating stoves of the kind that can be seen in farmhouses in Danish open air museums. Twentieth-century [...] The foundry museum at Nykøbing on the island of Mors in northern Jutland portrays the kind of enterprises that flourished in the nineteenth century in market towns, not only in Denmark but in most countries

buildings have been demolished and replaced by car parks on sites of other buildings. The Thread Mill Museum (12 Seedhill Road, Paisley, PA1 1JS, Tel. +44 (0) 141 8471111 ) has a collection of characteristic

milling system developed in Hungary and the United States and publicised at the International Milling Museum in London in 1881. The most characteristic mills using the process were enormous structures at the

The Rushden Historic Transport Society, a voluntary organisation in the small Northamptonshire market town interprets the transport history of the area in a variety of ways. Its headquarters is the fo

The Peak District Mines Historical Society established its museum in the pump room of the former spa of Matlock Bath, which was immensely popular in nineteenth century after the opening of the Midland [...] remain within the mine and visitors are offered the opportunity to pan for gold or lead ore. The Museum is the focus for the Peak District Mines Historical Society’s underground trips in Derbyshire, and

Rowsley South in 1997. Visitors can travel from Matlock station to Darley Dale where there is a railway museum and Rowsley South where the company has a newly-built station with a buffet and a 28 acre (ha) depot

restored. The main station is Norchard where the railway itself has its workshops, and where there is a museum with many small artefacts relating to the history of railways, nameplates, number plates, timetables

The creation of the East Anglian Transport Museum resulted from the initiative of four tram enthusiasts who restored an old Lowestoft tram from 1962. The museum was opened at Carlton Colville, 3 km from

was merged with the Dutch DAF company and is now part of the PACCAR group employing 800 people. The museum, administered by a charitable trust assisted by many volunteers was established in 1983. It is housed [...] single petrol pump, illustrate the infrastructure of the early years of motor transport, and the museum also holds a large collection of sales literature and company catalogues. Visitors can experience [...] vintage as well as modern vehicles and can enjoy the music of a fairground organ. A cinema shows the museum’s extensive collection of archive films.

London Canal Museum by the Battlefield Basin (previously known as the Horsfall Basin and the Maiden Lane Basin) on the Regent’s Canal near King’s Cross station is a conventional canal museum, founded in [...] Junction Canal at the River Thames at Limehouse, at what was then called Regent’s Canal Dock. The museum features a cabin typical of those that were homes to the families that crewed some of the canal boats [...] story of the ‘Blow-up Bridge’ that crosses the canal on the edge of Regent’s Park not far from the museum. In October 1874 the bridge was destroyed when the narrow boat Tilbury, carrying sugar, nuts, petroleum