Sailor Town, and children can enjoy a special section called ‘Mudlarks’. The Docklands Museum is part of the Museum of London Group. [...] huge bulk carriers came into use for transporting grain, coal and metallic ores. The location of the Museum of London Dockland illustrates a previous period of change. Most traffic in the Port of London in [...] Tower of London to the King George V Dock, with the Surrey Commercial Docks on the south bank. The Museum occupies a four-storey warehouse and provides detailed interpretations of the various periods of

the combined community was named Grosskirchheim after the castle that dominates the landscape. A museum of mining and local history was opened in the castle in 1956, but the area’s mining past is now displayed

ferry service from Holyhead in North Wales and has a long maritime tradition. The National Maritime Museum of Ireland opened in 1978 in the Church of Ireland (Protestant) Mariners’ Church, built in 1837 which [...] (1898-1989), Commander of the Irish Marine Coast Watching Service during the Second World War. The museum was located at St Michael’s Wharf, Dún Laoghaire from 1959 until it moved to the Mariners’ Church

could take part in varied activities and if necessary receive treatment. The mine also contains a museum with multi-media displays and exhibitions of mining tools and other historic artefacts, together [...] access the mine on buses which travel 1250 m to ‘Level 50’, some 120 m from the surface, where the museum and medical facilities are located. Visitors can also see the chamber named after György Dózsa (

exhibitions on the theme of peasant culture were arranged in the early twentieth century, and the present museum dates its origins from 1936 when it was established by Dimitrie Gusti (1880-1955), an academic s [...] Berlin and Leipzig, and pioneered the intensive study of peasant life and village communities. The museum now occupies a site of 14 ha in Herastrau Park and comprises some 360 structures, with collections [...] wares, and mining plant from the Carpathians including crushing mills and ore-washing equipment. The museum is the location for numerous theatrical productions and displays of folk dancing.

working in his forge, and boats being built and repaired. Several historic boats are exhibited in the museum yard, and visitors are able to hire traditional rowing boats. The first boat restored at the centre [...] kind used by sailors from Hardanger who made their livings all along the west coast of Norway. The museum holds some important films showing life on the west coast in the early twentieth century, including

The Vest-Agder Museum is situated 4 km north-east of the centre of Kristiansand. It is a Skansen-type open air museum founded relatively early in the history of such museums in 1903. It now consists of [...] general store and a post office. Careful attention has been paid to street furniture and signposts. The museum holds a collection of painting and photographs illustrating the themes with which it is concerned

displayed in sheds which are flooded twice daily by the tides, thus ensuring their preservation. The museum displays the many-layered clothing worn by seafarers in northern Norway, the nets and block-and-tackle

demonstration track on which a full-scale diesel-powered replica of the original carriage can operated. A museum was set up in ex-CIE (Irish State Railways) goods shed, which shows a film of the original line in

objective was ‘to recognise, research, preserve and celebrate the rich mining heritage of Allihies’. A museum was opened by the President of the Irish Republic in May 2007 in a Methodist chapel built by Cornish [...] early twentieth century or who can re-tell stories told them by their ancestors. One section of the museum deals with emigration to the United States after the mine closed in 1885. Allihies is set in one

chief engineer of OSE, who was responsible for starting the collection and was the museum’s first director. The museum occupies five galleries and has only limited space for locomotives and rolling stock [...] The Railway Museum of Athens was established by Hellenic Railways (OSE) in 1978 and opened the following year. It occupies the former wagon works of the Peleponnese Railways alongside that company’s main

The museum was established in 1930, supported by the foundation that Hansen set up. Its national importance was recognised in 1979 by the government, which provides some support, although the museum remains [...] Hjerl Hede is an open air museum of the Skansen type at Vinderup in the municipality of Holstebro in West Jutland. 35 km W of Viborg. Hans Peter Hjerl Hansen (1870-1946), a successful industrialist, a [...] Shops from towns include buildings intended for the sale of fish, salt, hops and haberdashery. The museum keeps old breeds of cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry and has an historical playground where children

the Norwegian side of the Skagerrak by Batterie Vara near Kristiansand, now the Kristiansand Cannon Museum. The position of the gun emplacements was altered from March 1942 as part of the construction of [...] troops provided defence for the battery. The guns were scrapped in 1951-52 and the fortress is now a museum of the Second World War within the Thy National Park, established in 2008, which extends 55 km from

Randers and Grenå, and the Green Museum lies 1.5 km outside the village at Gammel Estrup. It was founded in 1889 as the Dansk Landbrugmuseum (Danish Agricultural Museum) and was originally centred on the [...] manor house at Gammel Estrup. In 2017 it was combined with with the Danish Museum for Hunting and Forestry to form the Green Museum. From 1977 a succession of new buildings was constructed including display [...] display galleries, a storehouse for exhibits, stables and greenhouses. The museum includes an agrobotanical garden, with varieties of crops that were grown in past. It has examples of 274 varieties of apples

The railway museum in Zagreb was established on 19 March 1991 and formally named the Croatian Railway Museum from 20 May 2001. It is supported by railway pensioners association, which donated its historical [...] is limited space in the museum and it is possible to display only 20 vehicles, including six steam and two electric locomotives, but 16 steam locomotives belonging to the museum are displayed at stations [...] historical collection to the museum in 2011. It is located in the TŽV Gredelj locomotive works the earliest parts of which date from 1894 although many of the buildings were erected in the early twentieth

the 132 km Canal de la Bardenas, which carries water south to parts of Navarre and Zaragoza. The museum aims to show the relationship between water and agriculture and is divided into five sections, displaying [...] los Caballeros, and the transition from traditional to mechanised agriculture in the region. The museum has the largest collection of agricultural machinery in Spain.

The agricultural museum was established in Bratislava in 1922, moved to Nitra in 1960, and from 1978 was managed by the Agrokomplex company. It is now an open air museum of the Skansen type which since [...] food industry, agricultural machines, aviation, and fire-fighting. The 22 buildings in the open air museum of folk architecture include a school, a co-operative shop, corn mills using both stones and roller [...] bakery, scotching and heckling mills for processing hemp, a tannery, a treadmill and a cooperage. The museum operates several traction engines and a narrow gauge railway with three steam locomotives.

local authorities began to protective work on the site in 1990 and on 9 July 1994 it opened as a museum. Visitors are able to see where miners worked, as well as some of the remarkable minerals found in

bestowed the title of ‘Manufacture Royale’ on the factory. The family home at Davézieux, which became a museum in 1987 stands alongside a river in a parkland setting. It was the birthplace of the pioneers of [...] the brothers Joseph-Michel Montgolfier (1740-1810) and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier (1745-99). The museum portrays the achievements of the two brothers as well as the history of paper-making over several [...] artists, and it began to make photographic papers from 1853. It became a public company in 1881. The museum is claimed to be the only one that demonstrates a working paper-making machine, on which visitors

the French infantryman’s standard weapon in the First World War. The factory closed in 1968. The museum displays more than 150 vehicles including cars, motor cycles, bicycles and scooters, as well as items