production is illustrated in the museum include sea salt, lingonberry, lime and liquorice. Another product was Eyes cocoa which was very popular in Sweden. The museum on the factory premises offers to

substantial global corporation with 15,000 employees, and it took the name Lactalis in 1999. The company museum opened in 1999 and includes some 2500 objects. There are cheese mills and presses relating to the

ground. More huge pieces of equipment are parked in other locations and nearby a roomy underground museum brings the old potassium mine back to life. The high point of the journey underground is the fairytale

region, has its headquarters at the open air museum of mining, the first of its kind, established in 1938 by Karl-Erik Forsslund and Gustaf Bjorkman. The museum’s emblem is a gigantic waterwheel, and it d [...] demonstrates as well as any other museum in Europe the ways in which power was transmitted by wooden rods from waterwheels to operate pumps and other mining machinery. Other exhibits include drilling equipment

opened as a museum the following year. Its displays feature many aspects of textile manufacturing, particularly hosiery production and weaving on Jacquard looms. The other theme of the museum is motor cycling [...] stockings on machines, and of the celebrated hosiery firm of Louis Bahner, founded in 1842. The textile museum is located in a five-storey nineteenth-century mill which was occupied from 1879 by the Weber C F [...] km. closed circuit was laid out on which the most important races in Germany still take place. The museum has extensive displays of motor cycles and of other artefacts and images that depict the history

founded the German School of Watchmaking in the town, and the present museum of watchmaking is located in the school building. The museum, which opened in 2008, has comprehensive collections of the works of [...] workbenches equipped with tools, and collections of photographs and documents. The establishment of the museum was made possible by support from Nicolas G Hayek (1929-2010), the Lebanese-Swiss entrepreneur whose

offered every family the possibility of motoring in a medium-sized car. The principle sections of the museum are concerned with the dawn of motoring to 1908, veteran and vintage vehicles, cars manufactured

connection with the manufacture of matches, a factory having been established there in 1840. The match museum is located in a factory built in 1882 by Julian Huch and Karl von Gehling. Originally it consisted [...] film, and a three-minute movie of the event, one of the first made in Poland, can be viewed at the museum. Subsequently the factory was rebuilt and production resumed. The business passed through several [...] it came under the management of a joint stock company in which the employees are shareholders. The museum was established as part of the factory in 2002. Visitors can see how matches continue to be manufactured

The Bread and School Museum is not a typical museum. The exhibits are not displayed in show cases as in many other museums. No, here everything is easily accessible and visitors can actually handle and [...] exhibits. The museum was established as a “labour of love” by its founder Piotr Makiewicz who had a great interest in the history of bread and bread-making. In 2000, Piotr opened the first Bread Museum in Poland [...] pictures, post cards and rare items closely linked with regional and German cultures. The motto of the museum is “experience and try out”, and visitors can do this on the guided tours and demonstrations when

In the museum, operating since 1975, you can see over four thousand fire-fighting exhibits and souvenirs. The collection includes fire engines, horse-drawn fire-pumps, helmets, uniforms and other mementos

coaches of the Hespertalbahn (Herspertal railway) and enjoy the trip along the Baldeney lake. The museum railway takes you from Essen-Kupferdreh to Haus Scheppen, a former vassal estate of the abbey of

The Museum was established in 2001 by the Association of Warsaw-Vienna Railway Enthusiasts. The exhibits include: devices and elements of the railway equipment, lamps and uniforms. There is also a collection

The museum established in 1986 is located in a historic administration building of the former Klemens steelworks, dated back to the turn of the 19th c. Monumental forging machines in the direct vicinity [...] vicinity invite to visit the place. The museum presents to tourists a few very interesting exhibitions on various subjects.

It presents a few thousand exhibits related to power engineer­ing: from an iron and one-hundred-year-old booth of a street transform­er from Bytom, machines and power generators, measuring and lightin

The museum is located in an over one hundred-year-old, thoroughly renovated building of the former intermediate sewage pumping station. The program of the tour includes also a visit to the modern buildings

1882. Erikson also built cottages and a school for his workpeople, and a 700 m trail starting at the museum guides visitors through the textile community.

Surviving features include an arcaded ropeworks, a hospital and a dry dock of the 1840s. Malta’s maritime museum is located in the bases bakery complex, built to the design of William Scamp in 1841-5, which originally

Skansen is the open air museum that has given its name to museums in many European countries. For 70 years it has attracted more than two million visitors per annum. It was founded in 1891 by the ethnographer [...] doing research for a dictionary of the Swedish language. In 1872 he established the ethnographical museum that has involved into the present-day Nordiska Museet, and Skansen was a move from collecting artefacts [...] the same foundation until 1963, from which time they have been separately managed. The present-day museum extends over 30 ha and includes more than 150 buildings. Hazelius’s purpose had been to display Swedish

The technology and maritime museum in Malmö, Sweden’s third largest city, illustrates many aspects of engineering, particularly those relating to transport. It is housed in a building of the 1950s which

the Swedish National Museum, KF and the municipality of Varmdo came to an agreement by which the collection of Gustavsberg porcelain that had been displayed in the company museum should pass to the state [...] state through the National Museum. This mean that the collection could remain intact and that it could still be displayed at Gustavsberg. It comprises a remarkable range of wares manufactured between 1825 [...] 1825 and 1990. The Varmdo tourist office is located within the museum which is a popular day-trip destination for visitors to Stockholm.