main lines in the vicinity were electrified and most branch lines closed. The depot was adapted as a museum from 1985, and the collection includes more than 200 vehicles, including No 3673 of the Bavarian [...] 2-10-0s, a variety of electric locomotives and some railbuses. Diesel and steam locomotives from the museum occasionally work special trains on the branch line to Gunzenhausen and as far as Feuchtwangen on

one of the chief leather working towns in Germany, and its industrial heritage is commemorated in a museum opened in 2003 in the former factory of the Abel company. Ultra-modern displays feature tools used

the porcelain museum, alongside the chamber pots made for emperors and kings, and contemporary tableware complete with fully laid tables for all occasions. The multimedia tour of the museum is spoken by [...] to the present day. "The House of Villeroy & Boch" now contains a visitor centre with a porcelain museum that relates its history with new media and valuable old exhibits. In 1809 an iron caster by the [...] by the legendary Sir Peter Ustinov. Visitors can round off the tour in style in the museum café, an authentic replica of a Dresden milk shop. The fixtures and fittings were also manufactured here: Villeroy

Cefn Coed Colliery Museum is situated in the heart of the picturesque Dulais Valley and tells the story of colliery life from Victorian times to the 1950s. The museum is housed in the original colliery [...] stalls, pit props, tramways and other equipment used underground. One of the many highlights of the museum is the distinctive boiler house with its suite of six Lancashire steam boilers and the magnificent [...] As well as many fascinating artefacts from the mining industry such as tools and equipment, the museum also houses a restored and unique gas tram, which ran in Neath until 1920.

Located in the heart of the west Wales countryside the National Wool Museum tells the story of the forty mills once clustered around Dre-fach Felindre. Cambrian Mills, the only mill left in the village [...] village, has remained in continuous operation since it was built in 1902. It now houses the Museum. Centuries-old techniques, forgotten skills and traditional ways of life sit alongside a thriving, working woollen

Opened in 2015, this is a new tourist attraction in the Commune of Żarki. The 100 year old electric mill has undergone a metamorphosis, and inside there are unique exhibitions related to milling, shoe

television sets could be bought on hire purchase. A further section of the museum illustrates the nature of industrial work. The museum includes a beer hall where visitors can sample typical Danish working-class [...] The workers’ museum is located in the assembly house of the strong trades union movement in Copenhagen that was built in 1878-79, and remained for many decades the focus of the Danish labour movement and [...] and a meeting point for Socialists from all over Europe. The museum was established in 1982. Parts of the building including the assembly hall have been restored to their 1913 appearance. Elsewhere displays

Gothic community centre that takes its name from St Crispin, patron saint of shoemakers. The shoe museum, which is part of the Clark complex, has a large collection of footwear both from Britain and other

‘Sunderland’ flying boats. The museum’s outstanding exhibit is a ‘Sandringham’ S.25 flying boat, a conversion for civilian purposes of a military ‘Sunderland’. The museum displays more than 20 aircraft

standard locomotives of the 1950s. The Swanage Railway Trust also operates the Purbeck Mineral & Mining Museum at Norden station.

the principal monuments of the liner services for which Southampton was once famous. The Sea City Museum celebrates the city’s maritime history. It was built within part of the former Civic Centre, and

The Weald & Downland Living Museum at Singleton, 12 km north of Chichester, is a Skansen-style museums extending over 16 ha with a collection of more than 50 traditional buildings from the varied landscapes [...] of Southampton and was well acquainted with open air museums in Scandinavia and elsewhere in northern Europe. He believed that an open air museum ‘should be a collection of homes, where it is possible [...] tastes and their work’. A site for a museum was offered in 1964 on the West Dean estate close to the West Dean adult education college. The development of the museum owed much to Christopher Zeuner (1945-2001)

by river from Munkenmose near Anderson’s childhood home to Fruen Bøge near the museum. Industrial buildings in the museum include a large watermill, a Dutch-style windmill, a weaver’s house, a horse gin [...] Den Fynske Landby (The Funen Village) is a Skansen-style open air museum in Denmark’s second city which displays about thirty buildings from Funen and nearby islands, ranging in date from the seventeenth

Chelmsford First pier railway in the world Original cars and full history can be seen in the Pier Museum Replaced by London Underground units in 1949 Lines and rolling stock completely renewed in 1984-6

The maritime museum was established in 1960 and is responsible for the conservation of several historic buildings in one of Europe’s most important ports, including three traditional granaries built between [...] tonnes, and also served as a city gate. It was worked on the treadmill principle by gangs of men. The museum also preserves the cargo steamer Soldek, the first to be built in Poland after the Second World War

markets nowadays. The explanations by the museum’s staff are complemented by informational media that also enable visitors to find their way around the museum on their own. [...] The museum radiates an aura of vibrant activity; it smells like oil and metal in here, and the machines make a lot of noise! In the building of the former Kollmar & Jourdan jewellery manufactory, visitors [...] and marvel at traditional manufacturing techniques employed using original historical machines. The Museum showcases the technology involved in jewellery and watch production in its historical context, h

The Central Mining Museum at Sopron, 210 km W of Budapest on the eastern slopes of the Alpes, and 70 km south of Vienna holds the largest collection of mining artefacts in Hungary. It is located in one [...] extends into the palace gardens which include a mosaic pavilion and remains of the city walls. The museum is concerned with the extraction of coal, natural gas, non-ferrous metallic ores and building stones [...] early twentieth century mine that visitors can enter. Films showing miners at work are shown, and the museum displays some large hydraulic machines used in mines of various sorts in the mid- and late-twentieth

the local authority in 1953, and through the 1960s urged the formation of a museum of mining. After proposals to locate a museum in the surface buildings of one of the collieries proved unavailing, a new [...] France. By 1931 more than 400 Polish miners were working in the Ronchamp pits. The creation of the museum was due to Marcel Maulini (1913-83) who was born at Bresse in the Vosges to parents who had migrated

The museum project at Velenje, the principal centre of lignit-mining in Slovenia, originated in 1956-7, but the present museum in the old shaft (Stari jasek) was opened in 1999. Visitors are able to explore

villages were united under a programme of industrialisation. The museum of coal mining opened in 1988. It is called an open air museum, although most of the buildings stand on their original sites and