because so many countries maintained consulates there. Bitola’s history is reflected in its municipal museum, founded in 1934, which has subsequently been housed in several different buildings. It is now located [...] rich in archaeological remains from a variety of ancient civilisations, which are exhibited in the museum. Other displays reflect the trades and crafts of city and its region, textiles, carpets, embroidery

r system remained in use until 1959. The works closed in 1967 and was immediately conserved as a museum. Visitors can see the reservoir, a pair of waterwheels, the rolling mill, where roll stands and the

collection of artefacts at the museum in Leicester is one of the largest and most important in Europe relating to the manufacture, distribution and domestic uses of gas. The museum was established by the na [...] skills that had sustained the industry. In 1997, when the privatised industry was de-merged, the museum passed into the care of a trust. The collection is located in the gatehouse of the Aylestone Road

The preserved creamery in the village of Hjedding, managed by the museum at Olgod, is a monument of a particular stage in the development of the food industry not just in Denmark but in Europe as a whole

be restored to full working order thus conserving it for the future. Foxton Canal Museum Alongside the locks, a museum is situated in the reconstructed Boiler House of the Foxton Boat Lift. Opened in 1989

The principal museum of technology in France dates from 1794, the time of the French Revolution, when a national conservatory of arts and trades (Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers) was created [...] with the patent system and acquired many models and drawings submitted by aspirant patentees. The museum’s Industrial Portfolio includes more than 20,000 drawings and paintings of industrial subjects, including [...] drawings by Jacques de Vaucanson (1709-82), the Grenoble-born inventor of automata. Selections from the museum’s collection of more than 80,000 artefacts are displayed in thematic rooms relating to such topics

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.

was at its peak in the early 1930s there were 30 factories in the town employing 2500 workers. The museum, established in the former hat factory of Jules Blanchard, a building of 1910 with an imposing chimney

called Claudiopolis in Latin, Kolozsvar in Hungarian and Klausenburg in German. The ethnographic museum was established in 1922, and its open air section in the Hoia Forest by Romulus Vuia in 1929. It

small enterprises. The nearby birthplace of the poet Francis Ledwidge (1887-1917) is preserved as a museum, and is a good example of a farm worker’s cottage built under the Labourers’ Dwellings Act of 1886

Itala motorcar factory within the racing circuit. Aircraft were made on the site until 1987. The museum portrays both aspects of the history of Brooklands. The track and almost all the buildings remain [...] a VC10 and a BAC 1-11, and a Concorde. Many aspects of aircraft construction are displayed in the museum and visitors are able to explore the Acoustics Building, a laboratory built by the British Aircraft

The imaginative museum of bread at Seia has proved extremely popular since its opening in 2002. It comprehensively displays the place of bread in the social, economic and cultural history of Portugal,

Danube and the River Vah, ceased work in 1965, but was restored from 1980, and is now conserved as a museum. In the same vicinity is an 86 m long covered wooden bridge.

Leicester’s industrial museum is situated in a sewage pumping station of 1891 on the north side of the city, where the original engines, four 200 hp beam engines on the Woolf compound system, built by [...] by Gimson & Co, can be demonstrated. The museum includes displays relating to public health, and the consequences of the sanitary improvements of the 19th century, as well as to electricity, transport and

skew arch that forms part of a soaring stone viaduct by the Manchester – Leeds railway. Saddleworth Museum illustrates the history of the textile industry and other aspects of the parish.

cotton goods, and subsequently became a leading centre of the textile and engineering industries. The museum of printing on fabrics began with the establishment of an archive of fabric designs by the city’s

four locomobiles, two of which are, along with the plough, preserved shown in the museum. Apart from that, the Moorland Museum owns the world’s largest preserved peat excavator, whereas small tools refer to [...] refreshment, the museum café serves local food, such as buckwheat pancakes or sausages from Bentheim pigs. The pigs and other traditional and endangered species domestic animals are bred by the museum itself - [...] The Mammut is still alive, at least at the Emsland Moorland Museum in Geeste. "Mammut" is the name of a massive 30-ton steam plough made by Ottomeyer in the 1940s. The only one of its kind in the world

is one of the seven sites belonging to the LVR Industrial Museum. Supplemented by an exhibition in a new building built next door, the museum explains how clothes were made from wool and tells of the work

well as the evidence of a mining settlement and a colliery. The Ferrería itself has turned to be a museum telling the story of the pioneers of the Spanish steel industry. Original machines and their replicas

antiquity is proved by a waterwheel from Roman Times. The spectacular find forms part of the mining museum which is located in the former hospital of the nearby mining community. Also on display is a luxurious