employed 6,000 people by 1895. The foundry closed in 1964. The casting hall occupied by the museum. The museum illustrates the life of Abraham Ganz, the history of the building, the role of foundries in [...] The foundry museum occupies the buildings of the engineering work established by the Swiss ironfounder Abraham Ganz (1815-1867) who moved to Budapest in 1841 and opened his own works in 1844, specialising [...] then engaged largely in making turbines and other electrical equipment. Its products can be seen in museums of technology in many European cities.

the Agroneum, an open-air museum of agriculture. Visitors see a manor house and park, farm buildings, windmills, a forge and a sawmill with many other village buildings. A museum complex contains artefacts [...] artefacts, machinery, reconstructed interiors and informative displays. The museum was established in the 1980s under the German Democratic Republic and has continued to be developed. It explores the themes [...] row of cottages is furnished to show changing living conditions: in 1870, 1910, 1942 and 1970. The museum has a farm shop selling agricultural produce and a bistro that serves the country cooking of the

Hungary and Romania. This small railway museum among the ridges of the Carpathian mountains aims to save surviving elements of the Transcarpathia railway heritage. The museum consists of a single train with an [...] Visitors see exhibits largely in the condition in which they were rescued. Around the museum is the open-air village museum, which preserves over 20 buildings, among them a forge house of the 1930s, a carpenter’s

The museum interprets the history of mining for lead in the Priorat region of Catalunya at the Eugènia mine, which worked from 1870 until 1972. The museum was opened in 2002 and is part of mNACTEC, the [...] the Museums of Science and Technology of Catalunya. A steel headframe is surrounded by pit-head buildings, repair shops and spoil tips. The main displays are in the foundry for maintaining equipment. They [...] m underground and see excavations in the vein of ore. A video shows the life of workers. Near the museum is the model colony built in 1920 to house additional skilled miners.

building, which opened in 1899. The museum opened in Exhibition Park in 1934 as the first British science museum outside London and moved to its current location in 1993. In the entrance is the Turbinia [...] The Discovery Museum celebrates the exceptional maritime, scientific, and technological history of the city of Newcastle. It is housed in Blandford House, the former Co-operative Wholesale Society building [...] 12,000 items and the ‘Play + Invent’ space runs creative workshops for children and families. The museum is operated by the city council and is also home to the Tyne and Wear Archives.

during the visit can be taken home. The museum is a living workshop for artists practicing typography, lithography, linocut and intaglio printing. The museum’s collection includes over 2,000 original prints [...] The museum celebrates the history of printing from the fifteenth century to the present. It is located in the cultural centre built by the city of Nantes in 1985 for the Médiathèque Jacques-Demy. The museum [...] museum first traces the history of paper and then shows a range of printing equipment. These include early hand-carved wooden printing blocks, Gutenberg’s movable type, and Voirin’s 1823 cylinder press

illustrated at Etar, an open air museum 8 km south of the city, opened in 1963 on the basis of collecting begun in 1949 by its first director, Lazar Donkov (1908-76). The museum occupies a deep wooded valley [...] situ and some removed from their original sites, are powered by water from the River Sivek. The museum’s objective is to show the way of life of the Gabrovo region between 1750 and 1900. Buildings that [...] shop for spinning and weaving goats’ hair. Further aspects of the city’s past are illustrated in the Museum of History.

countries. A visitor centre opened in 1995, but three years early a museum collection was established with the aid of the National Technical Museum that was intended to show the artefacts and images used in the [...] its early decades. The museum opened to the public in 2012 and enables visitors to learn about such subjects as primary and secondary circuits and radiation control. Some museum visits extend into operating

Bilbao. The industrial museum RIALIA (which takes its name from the river) occupies a building begun in 1993 which was intended for various projects that did not materialise. The museum opened there in 2006 [...] exhibits donated to the museum. The last room is used to offer temporary exhibitions, both by local artists and related to industrial, marine and nautical themes among others. The museum's collection includes

Zastava and a Zagreb electric tram. The museum also maintains an archive of historic photographs and films that reach back to the early years of motoring. The museum is the home of the Society for the Study [...] The museum was begun in Zagreb in 2013 and moved just outside the city to the north-west in 2018. It is now at Westgate Shopping Centre, on the A2 highway between Jablanovec and Zaprešić. It was founded [...] in 1901 drove the first car in Zagreb and established a car dealership and maintenance garage. The museum contains over 100 cars, motorcycles and bicycles. The vehicles include early examples such as a

The museum displays tools and equipment used in fishing and imagery of maritime life and it explores aspects of the natural history of the sea. In the harbour at Jardim Oudinot, 8km away, the museum cares [...] The museum has existed since 1937 but was given a purpose-built new home in 2001. An aquarium to show living cod was added in 2013. The people of the nearby Aveiro Lagoon were leaders in the fishing industry [...] industry and the exploitation of cod stocks off Newfoundland and Greenland. The museum preserves a selection of historical vessels and large-scale models, from early sailing boats to modern trawlers. Visitors

port, and its first tramcar forms part of the museum collection. The museum holds an archives collection and has a substantial library. Currently the museum is closed for renovation. [...] at the Campo Marzio station, which ceased to be used by passenger trains in 1959, and has been a museum since 1984. It was also the terminus of the 0.76 m gauge line known as the Paric Railway, the Istrian [...] that extended 123 km to Parenzo in present-day Croatia, which worked between 1902 and 1935. The museum includes 11 steam locomotives made by several Italian companies, and by works in Wiener Neustadt

The Head of Steam Museum comprises North Road Station, opened in 1842 once part of the Stockton & Darlington, the adjacent goods shed and the nearby Hopetown Carriage Works. The museum opened as the Darlington [...] Darlington Railway Museum in 1975. Exhibits include George Stephenson’s Locomotion No 1 , which pulled the train on the opening day of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, and Derwent , built in Darlington [...] Line, Locomotion from 1892 and Derwent from 1898, and both belong to the national collection. The museum includes two other locomotives both from the North Eastern Railway, a 2-4-0 of 1885 and an 0-8-0

farming. A history that you can now experience and live in the “Giorgio Amarelli” Licorice Museum. Seat of the Museum is the historic residence built in the 15th century, rendered softer by 18th century d [...] XIX century. In 2001 the Licorice Museum won the Guggenheim Prize for its communication skills. In 2004 the General Italian Poste Office celebrated the licorice Museum with a special stamp in the Collection [...] and computerized processes, which allows to follow the different processing steps. The Liquorice Museum narrates the history of Liquorice trough the history of the Amarelli company which has remained the

ties of Clausthal and Zellerfeld were united in 1926, the museum moved into the former town hall at Zellerfeld. The 29 galleries of the museum illustrated every aspect of mining for metallic ores from [...] The museum of mining in Clausthal-Zellerfeld was established in 1892 by Adulf Achenbach (1825-1903), a Saarlander who followed a varied career in the service of the Prussian government in several parts [...] open air section includes a stamp mill and other machines moved from mines that have closed. The museum serves as the starting point for tours of the many monuments of mining history in the Upper Harz

century Ashton Canal Warehouse the museum combines a lively modern interior with a peaceful canal side setting. Portland Basin Museum is an exciting family friendly museum, with something for all the family [...] historic machines. You can even drive a model canal boat, or play schoolyard games of yesteryear. The Museum lies seven miles to the east of Manchester. The local borough of Tameside takes its name from the [...] starting point for exploration along the canals especially as it is the location of the Portland Basin Museum.

completely new museography and together with the Archaeological Museum of Álava, they are managed together with the name BIBAT (‘two in one’). The museum currently has a collection comprising over 20,000 items [...] The collection on show at the Fournier Museum of Playing Cards in Álava was started by Félix Alfaro Fournier in 1916 when he took over the family business of manufacturing playing cards. His interests [...] playing cards in the world. In 1984 the Provincial Council of Álava acquired the collection, and the museum continued to grow. In 1994 it was based at the Palacio de Bendaña, a Renaissance style palazzo built

enormous exhibition area of around 12,000 square metres, makes the German Mining Museum in Bochum the largest and most important museum of its kind in the world. [...] The equipment ranges from a mallet and gad to a fully-automatic disc shearer. But the German Mining Museum in Bochum is not content with machines, no matter how spectacular they might be. For the history [...] to the increasingly industrialised conditions in the 19th century. At the end of your tour of the museum you might like to take a trip to the 60 metre viewing platform at the top of the pithead gear. The

The Netherlands Open Air Museum is one of several national museums inspired by the example of Skansen in Stockholm, that were established in north European countries in the decades before the First World [...] restored, but in the 1980s the museum was threatened with closure by cuts in public spending, and from 1991 became the responsibility of an independent foundation. The museum displays 85 buildings from all [...] Wind power has always been important in the history of The Netherlands, and it is fitting that the museum should include several windmills, amongst them a 26 m high tower mill from Delft, and a wind-powered

include miners’ tools, maps and surveys and a notable collection of minerals. On ‘museum nights’, in which all the museums in Davos are involved, visitors are able to extract concentrate from iron ore by [...] Grisons in the nineteenth century, and the history of mining in the region is commemorated in the museum at Schmelzboden, 4 km south-west of Davos, which is situated in the early nineteenth century headquarters