established by Henry David Wilchens (1763-1832). The museum occupies premises in the Estaházy palace alongside those of the Central Museum of Mining. It opened in 1983 and provides a comprehensive view of forestry [...] The Forestry Museum in Sopron is linked to the Faculty of Forestry in the University of Western Hungary, where the first collection of specimens and artefacts related to forest industries was established [...] ecology is explained in detailed. One display shows how trees are felled and progress to sawmills. The museum includes important records of surveying and cartography, the earliest of them a forest map of 1658

was established in 1972, and in 1992 the family’s residence became available for occupation by a museum, which opened to the public in 1999. Displays show the technology of various means of textile printing [...] examples of the products of the Goldberger workshops some of which feature in window displays. The museum organises walks around the city visiting sites connected with the Goldbergers and textile printing

parts. The Junghans company still manufactures in the town but on a smaller scale. The car and watch museum, opened in 2010, is located in the Hamburg Amerikanische (HAO) factory, which belonged to a company [...] techniques, hence the name. The building was designed by Phillip Jakob Manz (1861-1936). The watch museum is on the fourth floor and includes some of the outstanding innovations made by the Junghans company

The open air museum at Detmold, capital of the former principality of Lippe-Detmold, is reckoned the largest of its kind in Germany. It extends over 90 ha and its collection totals more than a hundred [...] peasant society in a prosperous agricultural region in the period before the Industrial Revolution. The museum project was launched in 1960 and the site was opened to the public in the early 1970s. Most of the [...] and a pottery with its clay warehouse. There are several impressive windmills and a water mill. The museum regularly demonstrates flour milling, blacksmithing and pottery manufacture, and illustrates important

The collection of the old museum at 32 Museumgade was closed in June 2014 and transferred to the Textilmuseum. In the museum park behind the old museum is a small open air museum with a farmhouse, yard, [...] town a shirt factory of circular design now accommodates the city’s art museum, and a former dress factory houses the Danish museum of photography. [...] domestic industry, was re-organised on a factory basis. The Textilforum, part of the mid-Jutland Museum Service, is based in a hosiery factory of 1876, a red brick building, with a 13-bay façade, and north-lit

about half-way between the towns of Borovnica and Vrhnika. The headquarters of Slovenia’s technical museum, which was founded in 1951, is a mansion in the centre of an estate that was once a Carthusian monastery

Mountains). Until 1945 the area was part of Germany and the village was called Wüstewaltersdorf. A museum opened in 1995 reveals the scale and horror of part of the Riese project carried out in 1943-45 by [...] tunnels go through hard gneiss rock, but are nevertheless lined with concrete. Visitors approach the museum over a Bailey Bridge of the Second World War across the Walinka River and can see an exhibition of [...] . There is evidence of ventilation systems, tunnel boring machines and underground railways. The museum is the starting point for a trail linking together places associated with the Riese project.

production of steel in electric furnaces and of aluminium was pioneered in the region. The principal museum of the industry is Hydrelec at Vaujany, near the plant below the Grand Maison dam, completed in the

cotton and linen textiles. Some handloom weavers’ cottages remain but the town also accommodates the museum, opened in 2001, that now portrays the area’s industrial history, along with collections of works

also demonstrated in the mill, where workers continuing to produce high grade paper for artists. The museum of papermaking, established in the 1980s, shows techniques used in an industry that has been important

in France began production at Besançon in 1892. The factory at Échirolles was opened in 1927. The museum describes its history up to its closure in 1989, showing both the technologies employed, illustrated

bordered by lines of Siberian Fir trees. It is open for visiting boats during the summer months. The museum is situated by the upper entrance to the canal and has displays illustrating the history of navigation

were made of gold from Haveri. Mining operations came to an end in 1961. The museum, managed by the Pirkanmaa Provincial Museum, is one of the attractions in what is now a location for holidays. It displays [...] mid-twentieth century – Piippulanrivi – have been restored, and in the summer holiday season the museum is the location for cultural events.

The museum on the banks of the River Cailly at Notre-Dame-de-Bondville, west of Rouen, is located in a former ropeworks, a partially timber-framed building of 1822. The factory was re-equipped in 1880

Welcome to the Long Shop Museum the home of the Garrett Collection and one of the first assembly line buildings in the world. The Museum, inaugurated in 1984, stands in the original 19th century works [...] itself was built as a workshop for the manufacture of portable steam engines and is now restored as a museum. Garrett’s successful stand at the Great Exhibition in 1851 was a major landmark in the history of [...] expanded with the coming of the railways to Leiston and the development of the business. As you tour the museum you will discover more to the Garrett story than you imagined. See, from the enormous range of Garrett

fire in 1702, still stand on the quay, and have been designated a World Heritage Site. The Hanseatic Museum, which dates from 1872, comprises a house on the waterfront and a warehouse at the rear, in which

trade routes between Gibraltar and Malta and Toulon and Algiers. The Consortium of the Military Museums of Menorca, formed in 1998, co-ordinates initiatives to conserve military sites, and includes re [...] Es Castell and Mahón, and the Spanish ministry of defence. The Museo Militar de Menorca (Military Museum of Menorca), where the consortium is based, was established in 1981, initially in an 18th century [...] and the role of the Balearic Islands in the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39. Apart from the military museum the consortium is responsible for the conservation and interpretation of four major sites. The most

the English Channel, was established in the late 17th century, and re-named Devonport in 1823. The museum has evolved through several stages since the Second World War as the dockyard has contracted. Its

steam propelled warships, on the gun deck, on the open decks and in the engine room. The National Museum of the Royal Navy is also in the Dockyard, and tells the story of Britain’s fighting ships and those

given his name, not only to the museum but – in German – to x-rays themselves. For the German for “to x-ray” is “röntgen”. Nowadays everything in the Deutsches Röntgen Museum in Lennep is connected with the [...] throughout the world: x-rays. The range of applications is countless. In the medical area alone, the museum has an impressive amount of apparatus ranging from the seemingly primitive "Diaphor R" x-ray instruments [...] them into a sort of human x-ray machine, so to speak. There is even a room for experiments in the museum’s own laboratory. This contains 30 different tests in the areas of mechanics, optics, magnetism and