was revived by a group of young entrepreneurs, La Coopérative des Sauniers de l’Ile de Ré, and the museum was established to explain to visitors the island’s history and ecology, and to provide opportunities [...] explored by bicycle on a network of tracks that extends for 100 km. around the lagoons. The shop at the museum offers varied a variety of products from the co-operative, including flavoured salt, and picked samphire

then to weaving cloth. One of the mills was purchased by the town authority in 1992 and opened as a museum two years later. In the early nineteenth century the water-power was used for spinning by day and [...] 1970s the population of Langogne was in the region of 4,000, but it is now less than 3,000, and the museum brings some tourist income to the town, as well as enhancing pride in the past. The mill consists

continued until 1956. The project to establish a museum at the former mine began in 1986. The museum now prides itself in being a ‘musée souterrain’ (underground museum) which is justified since visitors are able [...] underground haulage. The headstock and other surface buildings of the mine are well-preserved. Here the museum shows films illustrating the history of mining, enhanced by recordings of former miners, and the

the location of a royal textile enterprise, comparable in many respects to Dijonval at Sedan. The museum is based in a five-storey factory of 1819 originally designed for printing fabrics, and set in extensive

The museum, located in the noble 17th century mansion that once belonged to the owner of a hammer mill, is devoted to the history of water supply and to the achievements in constructing the Vienna spring [...] egion feeds the Austrian capital with 217,000 cubic meters drinking water daily. The SpringWater Museum documents how the second Vienna spring water line was built and illustrates the city’s water supply [...] displays provide insights in major aspects of the region’s geology and the protection of springs. The museum of local history primarily deals with the largest trade union of Innerberg based in Wildalpen which

copper which made its way into the world via the neighbouring port of Plymouth. A vibrant open-air museum has now brought the past back to life complete with costumed actors. Visitors can take a direct part

the re-display of the collection in the O2 factory, built under BMW ownership in 1935 where the new museum called Automobile Welt opened in 2005. The collection includes examples of the many and widely-differing

before it became a museum in 1982. An overshot waterwheel more than 260 years old powers the bellows of a cupola, set in a casting hall where the gantry crane still operates. The museum opens daily but the

The Riverside Museum replaces the former Museum of Transport that was housed in the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow from 1987, and from 1964 in a tram depot at Pollokshields. The collection has been displayed since

The Museum of Transport opened in 1980 as a satellite building accommodating the growing collection of vehicles in the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, which began when Samuel Bartleet gave the museum his [...] changed in the post-war years increasing numbers of historically important vehicles were acquired. The museum completed a substantial programme to re-display its collections in June 2015. The collection includes

Many corn mills in Europe are preserved as museums, but most are water-powered and used stones set in tuns to make flour. The Tiefenbrunnen Mill in Zurich is unusual in that it dates from the twentieth [...] the extensive buildings were adapted as apartments, offices, shops and a theatre but part became a museum which opened in 1986. Visitors are able to witness the roller-milling process and to learn about [...] mill still produces several tonnes of flour each year, and one of the most popular features of the museum is that visitors are able to use that flour to bake their own bread in the bakery on the premises

Like many museums of motor cars Svedinos was the creation of one man. Lennart Svedfelt (1924-93) had a varied career, and at one stage was a manufacturer of model aircraft. He began to collect vintage [...] Ugglarp on the west coast of Sweden about 25 km. north of Halmstad in the county of Halland. The museum featuring the collection was opened in 1961 and took its name from Lennart Svedfelt’s nickname Svedinos

to prosper, exporting to most parts of the world, until decline came from the 1960s. The textile museum is centred on the company founded by Israel Jean-Baptiste Craye in 1880. It originated as the Musée

Aviation Museum occupies an historic site – the Kraków-Rakowice-Czyzny airfield, first established by the government of Austria-Hungary in 1912. The airfield ceased to be used in 1963 and the museum was set [...] accommodated in old hangars, and part in the open air, but a new main building was completed in 2010. The museum holds a collection of 22 aircraft dating from the early years of aviation made by Hermann Göring

in 2013. It has never been modernised and retains most of its original buildings and signals. The museum, opened in 1993, is located in a locomotive depot built during the Second World War, and is about [...] locomotives which regularly operate trains for visitors on the lines radiating from Chabówka. The museum includes well-equipped workshops for the restoration and maintenance of locomotives, and provides [...] scenes in several well-known films have been shot on lines in the vicinity using stock provided by the museum.

municipality in 1990, and opened as a museum in 1992. The main building is of three storeys with an attic storey above, and extends along nine bays. Within it the museum displays all the machinery associated [...] former textile mill on the edge of the village of Esch-sur-Sûre in northern Luxembourg is both a museum of the woollen cloth industry in the vicinity and a visitor centre for the Upper Sûre Nature Park [...] second half of the nineteenth century were made by H Duesberg-Bosson of Verviers in Belgium. The museum is the starting point for trails through the nature park, and is used for many cultural events.

smelter, one of seven in Norway, remains in production and is part of Norsk Hydro ASA. The industrial museum was opened by the company in 1986 and illustrates many aspects of life in Høyanger since the opening

the Technical Museum in Bergen are managed by several voluntary groups each of which takes responsibility for a section of the museum. They are overseen by a board of trustees. The museum is housed in a

during the Second World War but the museum opened in 1949 with three restored houses that had been removed from the city centre. Old Bergen is now part of the city museum service. It comprises some 55 wooden [...] In 1934 a group of citizens of Bergen established a society with the aim of setting up an open air museum, similar to those in many other Scandinavian cities. In 1936 the society took over Elsesro, a summer [...] wooden houses that formerly stood in the city, but as in many similar open air museums, the ambitions of the founders to create a fully-functioning historic town have never been realised. The landscaping

shoemaking in Germany declined, and it is no longer the principal industry in Hauenstein. The shoe museum, in a building of striking appearance in the Bauhaus style, covers the history of footwear over many