activities in the following year. The line was designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument, and was granted museum status in 2002. The railway has suffered from arson attacks and the withdrawal of local authority

(1661-1736), was the first of its kind in the United Kingdom. The barracks currently houses three museums, the regimental collection of the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, a display entitled ‘By Beat of Drum’ [...] by English Heritage which tells the story of the British infantryman, and the Berwick-upon-Tweed Museum & Art Gallery, which is concerned with the social history of the town, and includes a collection

the Eifel until his retirement in 1981. He was a leading figure in the European open air museums movement. The museum extends over 95 ha. and includes 65 buildings from the Rhenish provinces that became part [...] Kommern is one of the open air museums, deriving from the pattern established at Skansen, which were established in the former Federal Republic of Germany in the decades after the Second World War. Its [...] farmsteads in the lower Rhineland for the Rhenish Landesmuseum in Bonn. He was appointed to direct a new museum reflecting the social history of the region in 1958, and superintended its establishment at Mech

own paper, and from time to time courses are organised enabling people to develop their skills. The museum holds a large collection of watermarks, and produces an interesting range of stationery which is

introduction of cardboard cartons for soft cheeses in the 1960s began a period of steady decline. The museum is located in a restored sawmill alongside the River Orbe which over the centuries provided power [...] power for cutting and shaping wood. A steam-powered saw is demonstrated from time to time. The museum displays tools used for sawing, boring and cleaving wood, but its chief attraction is the astonishingly

lively, and today about 1,000 people work for small- and medium-sized companies in Sonneberg. The museum, located in a handsome baroque building, contains model steam engines, large displays of model trains [...] lively, and today about 1,000 people work for small- and medium-sized companies in Sonneberg. The museum, located in a handsome baroque building, contains model steam engines, large displays of model trains

the oldest working triple expansion stream engine in the UK. Most engines are in working order. The Museum is set in a beautiful setting beside the River Wye in large grounds.

work was tough and often dangerous, especially for those who worked at the wharfs. Today the port museum Speicher XI revisits the heyday of Bremen's freeports by displaying the jobs involved in general

one of the mills in 1814, and now forms the only in situ exhibit in the open-air museum, which is part of the national museum, as is the mill at Brede. The latter is part of one of the best-preserved factory

The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery (formerly the City Museum) occupies a purpose-designed building opened in 1981. It contains a collection of Staffordshire ceramics of every possible kind, earthenwares [...] porcelains and tiles, that is unrivalled by any other museum. Some 5,000 pieces are generally on display. The archaeology section of the museum is closely concerned with evidence of the ceramics industry [...] both planned and otherwise. The museum also includes sections on the decorative arts (chiefly costume and textiles), geology and natural history. In the centre of the museum is a Spitfire fighter aircraft

at Gloucester Docks between 1985 and 2001, and other items formed a Museum of Memories at Wigan Pier between 1999 and 2007. The Museum of Brands, Packaging & Advertising was opened in London in 2005 and [...] more than half a million items. Opie came to public attention in 1975 when the Victoria & Albert Museum staged an exhibition of packaging from his collection entitled The Pack Age: A century of wrapping

promote the use of canals and encourage their restoration. In 1977 the Society opened the only canal museum in Scotland, in a former canal stable at the Manse Road Basin on the Edinburgh & Glasgow Union Canal

The collections in this museum are not as comprehensive as name may suggest, although it has many exhibits of great importance. It is essentially a collection of public service and commercial vehicles [...] vehicles which began in 1949 with the formation of the Transport Museum Society of Ireland which was initially concerned with an attempt to preserve three Dublin trams. The Society became a limited company in [...] at a depot in the Glen of Imaal in Co Wicklow, which still houses the reserve collection, but the museum in the grounds of Howth Castle opened in 1986. Some 60 vehicles of the hundred or so owned by the

continued to make wire that was used to produce keys for sardine cans until 1975. The site has been a museum since 1979, and presents a remarkably complete picture of an ironworks of the early modern period

The museum at Le Bourget airport, Paris, is one of the oldest in the world to be concerned with aviation, having been established at the suggestion of the aeronautical engineer Albert Caquot (1881-1976) [...] objects. The earliest, from the sixteenth century, related to experimental flying apparatus, and the museum tells in some detail the story of Man’s subsequent attempts to fly, and has some important artefacts [...] found. The collection also includes some artefacts relating to airships of the 1920s and 30s. The museum displays a wide range of aircraft from fighters of the First World War, through a Supermarine Spitfire

The open air museum at Sanok, in the south-east of present-day Poland, includes 150 buildings, extends over 38 ha. and is claimed to be the largest of its kind in Poland. It was established in 1958 and [...] and set an example that was copied in other parts of the country. Like open air museums in other countries it portrays the ways of life of peasant societies before industrialisation, but, perhaps uniquely [...] Greek Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic, as well as a synagogue. The museum includes many peasant farmsteads, well heads and apiaries carved from tree trunks, highly distinctive

a village of about two thousand people, 21 km south-west of Warsaw. The automotive and technology museum, opened in 1995, holds a collection of more than 300 vehicles. Its principal emphasis is on motoring [...] cars from that period, including Trabants and a ZIS convertible, once used by Joseph Stalin. The museum organises tours of Warsaw in buses from the 1950s and 60s, and a range of exhibits commemorate Grand

science. Researchers at the museum study dialects and folk art. The museum incorporates the manor house and mausoleum of the former landowners the Bierbaum family. The museum has a branch at Uzrzewo, concerned [...] Polands National Museum of Agricultural is located at Komorniki, 10 km south of Poznań. The collection was established in 1964 and the museum gained national status in 1974. Its collection includes steam [...] Jaracz, opened in 1981, a section on basketry and hops at Nowy Tomyślu, opened in 1985, an open air museum of 1999 at Swarzedz, and a branch concerned with the place of meat in society established at Sielinko

traversed by the ancient route from Oslo to Trondheim. On the edge of the town is Maihaugen, an open-air museum incorporating the collections of Anders Sandvig (1862-1950), son of a local fishermen, who studied [...] collecting buildings and artefacts, following the example of Artur Hazelius (1833-1901) who opened the museum at Skansen in Stockholm in 1891. Sandvig first displayed his collection to the public in 1904. He [...] their work, for the design and furnishing of a home give a picture of the people themselves’. The museum has expanded, but it remains under the management of a private trust, and receives some government

Bakehouse Museum in Sopron is one of Europe’s livelier museums of the food industry. In Sopron, as in many other cities, bakers traditionally lived in a quarter outside the city wall. The museum is based [...] incorporated within the museum. Visitors can also see the adjoining flour store which became a sweet shop catering for Sunday afternoon walkers in the late nineteenth century. The museum is recognisable by