school and the city of Monster was inaugurated, using the existing collection as the nucleus of a museum that was opened to the public in September 1983. It displays armoured vehicles of many kinds, battle [...] United States, Great Britain and the former USSR. The exhibition includes several archive films. The museum interprets armoured warfare in broad social contexts, and has been remarkably successful in attracting

Essen, is preserved in the city. Most aspects of transport history are featured in the transport museum, which is located in the royal stables of 1586. The earliest exhibit is a sedan chair of 1705. L

and later partly automated. By 1900 Eibenstock dominated the world market. Eibenstock’s Embroidery Museum illustrates this development impressively. The machines on display, some of which can be also operated

section of the railway, even if only once a month and on special occasions. But in the German Horsetram Museum, visitors can learn about the international history of horse-drawn trams at all times.

The museum of Oederan, a small village 20 km East of Chemnitz, presents the textile history of the Ore Mountains. Under the guidance of museum staff and on hand and power looms, visitors can learn various [...] spooling, as well as sectional and direct warping procedures. As the machinery and equipment park of the museum covers almost the entire history of weaving, from the simple handlooms of the early days via Jacquard

Exhibition of 1878. Train services ceased in 1968 and since 1984 it has served to house Madrid's railway museum which has one of the largest collections in Europe of locomotives and rolling stock. Exhibits include

always been ideas worth fighting for. Join a march through time at the People’s History Museum, a national museum telling the story of the development of democracy in Britain over two centuries. Meet the

The museum in the Tannerie Bortoises at Bort-les-Orgues, a small town in the département of Corrèze in central France provides its visits with a complete picture of transformation of skins and hides into [...] into leather than can be used by craftsmen. The museum opened in 1996 largely at the initiative of former workers at the tannery. It occupies a three-storey building which extends across 13 bays of a pedimented

Ockbrook near Derby and at Gracehill in Co Antrim. The history of Herrnhut is portrayed in the town museum, which occupies a Baroque house of 1764, and the town also houses an important ethnographic collection [...] (1812-95) to display the ways of life of peoples in all parts of the world. In 2004 it merged with museums in Leipzig and Dresden to form the Staatliche Ethnographische Sammlungen Sachsen.

industrial manufacturing and traditional lifestyles in the countryside. Located in the Salweytal, the museum portrays patterns of work in the small-scale iron industry. Its exhibits of pre-industrial local

areas of engineering, particularly the manufacture of hardware for space exploration. The Dornier Museum occupies a striking modern building and its 400 exhibits include twelve original aircraft and two [...] tour of the Bodensee in a flight simulator. There are joint ticketing arrangements with the Zeppelin museum and with the operators of the catamaran service from Konstanz to Friedrichshafen.

of the museum is also interesting. It is in the centre of the famous factory site at Diglis, to where it moved in the 1800s from its original home at Warmstry House not far away. Part of the museum building [...] This is a museum that can be appreciated at a number of levels. Dr John Wall, a surgeon and prominent local figure started the Worcester Porcelain Manufactory in 1751. At the time the country was in the

the younger brother of Richard Garrett, who inherited the Garrett Works at Leiston (Now Longshop Museum). One of his daughters achieved fame as the remarkable Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, a suffragette

operates pre-booked tours for parties, which individual visitors are able to join by appointment. The museum in the Market Square provides an introduction to the history of the town, including its industrial

icons made of bentwood and tubular steel as well as contemporary pieces of renowned designers. The museum is located on the premises of the Thonet company based in Frankenberg since 1889. It illustrates

twentieth century shops of a distinctive style were opened in most English and Welsh towns. The company museum, the shop in Newtown, opened in an early nineteenth century building in 1927, has been restored to

found in the Axle, Wheel and Wagon Museum in Wiehl. The largest area of the museum is devoted to coaches from the 17th to the 20th century, most of them parked in the museum courtyard in their own stylish [...] historic vehicles and related objects. This resulted in a works museum in 1952, which has since been extended on several occasions. Now the museum covers more than 1,000 square metres and presents a fascinating [...] of antique vehicles and casts of stone age finds including a wooden axe and two disk wheels. The museum also has its own workshop. Here blacksmiths and cartwrights give demonstrations of their traditional

The museum at Sochaux stands alongside the huge car plant of PSA Peugeot-Citroën, the largest in France. It tells the complex story of the development of the family business since the brothers Jean-Pierre [...] making bicycles, and then to motor cycles, and the first Peugeot motor car appeared in 1891. The museum has comprehensive displays of Peugeot products, including bicycles that were ridden by winners of [...] a small local metalworking business became a global motor car company. The project to establish a museum was launched in 1982 at the instigation of Pierre Peugeot (1932-2002), and it is located in a building

remained at Angers from which 90 per cent of the factory’s output is now exported. The Cointreau museum is situated at the factory off the ring road on the eastern side of the town. Visits are by appointment [...] company. The first advertising movie film was made to publicise Cointreau. It can be seen at the museum along with other advertising material for the brand. There are tastings of the products of the distillery

Haute-Saône. Visitors can observe glass blowers at work and collections of past and present products. The museum shop is in a traditional seventeenth-century building. The works was given the distinction of an