The Norwegian Folk Museum was founded in 1894 by Dr Hans Aall (1867-1946) and opened its collection of re-erected buildings on the island of Bygdoy, not far from the centre of Oslo, in 1902. It now contains [...] candle-making are demonstrated, and there are ten mileposts, some in cast-iron scattered about the museum.

The collection is now displayed in the Woodhorn Colliery Museum and Gallery, which also accommodates the Northumberland county archives and a museum of local life and mining. It is an impressive memorial [...] The museum at Woodhorn Colliery houses one of the most significant collections in Europe of paintings by workers who had no formal training in art. In the early twentieth century some miners from pits [...] opportunities for professional training. Another form of working-class art that may be seen at the museum is the collection of miners’ lodge banners that were displayed on formal occasions and carried on

and groups. The National Tramway Museum is now part of what is in effect an open air museum, in which several historic buildings and structures, most notable the late eighteenth century Assembly Rooms from [...] The museum at Crich was established in 1955 in a former limestone quarry that provided sufficient space for the operation of tramcars from big cities that had been preserved by private individuals and [...] from Derby, have been re-erected. The museum also includes an education department, a library and a documentation centre, which has databases relating to tramcars and tramway systems, and collections of

The museum of technology was established by a private trust in Copenhagen and moved to Helsingor in 1966, where it has been located in several premises but is now all on one site in buildings once occupied

portable auditoria at fairgrounds, such as that displayed from time to time at the Netherlands Open Air Museum at Arnhem. In Britain the Cinematograph Act of 1909 made obligatory the provision of at last two

trust, the Sandtoft Transport Centre. The museum owns some vehicles while others are the property of individuals or groups. Sandtoft became a registered museum in 2003. The collection includes 46 trolley [...] The museum at Sandtoft is the principal collection in Europe of trolleybuses, the electrically-powered ‘free-wheeled’ cars, that developed, chiefly in the United Kingdom after 1910, from experiments carried

Kettering, only 20 km distant. Some small-scale manufacture of high quality shoes continues. The museum displays an internationally-significant collection of shoes and of shoemaking machinery.

from 1920 until 1963 made traditional Finnish cream cheese and buttermilk cheese, which is now a museum, showing the importance of the dairy industry in Finland. There are also sections showing how shoes

shoe laces, heels and other footwear components, chapels and the headquarters of band clubs. The museum has substantial collections of footwear and of shoemaking machinery, some of which was made in the

pottery, and the theme of textile production can be followed throughout the museum. The Old Town is one of the most popular museums in Denmark and is visited by some 3.5 million visitors a year. [...] The Old Town in Arhus, the principal city of Jutland, is unusual amongst European open air museums in that it consists largely of urban buildings rather than farmsteads that have been removed from their [...] their original sites and re-erected, and that it is located close to the modern city centre. The museum originated in 1908 when it was proposed to demolish the Old Mayor’s Mansion in Arhus. A local teacher

mine. The centre is located in the former calciner at the King Edward Mine which is managed as a museum on behalf of the Trevithick Society and the Carn Brea Mining Society.

Koroskem in northern Slovenia was well-known for its iron works and lead mines. The Koroski open air museum opened in 1953, and is based in the former Missthal Ironworks. Exhibits include an ancient water-powered

Blackwater at Langford, just upstream from its junction with the navigation at Beeleigh, lies the Museum of Power which is another ERIH site. Though no longer used by commercial barges, pleasure boats can

dwellings for 48 families in three blocks built around a courtyard in Streatham Street, near the British Museum, remains. Access to the apartments is by wrought-iron balconies, they are of fireproof construction

thrashing machines for attachment to their steam engines. A range of these can be seen in the Museum at Thetford. The Museum, housed in the Old Paint Shop of the famous St. Nicholas Works, tells the story of the [...] unpaid volunteers who wished to see the Burrell heritage of Thetford preserved. The Charles Burrell Museum attracts many traction engine enthusiasts. Charles Burrell engines are often brought here by their

Maritime Museum was opened in 1985. It occupies the former Custom House of 1764 by Richard Gillow and an adjacent warehouse. With regularly changing exhibitions and events, Lancaster Maritime Museum is also

economy and it has a variety of museums, some belonging to the state and some privately-operated. They include a museum of wax figures, a museum of emigration and two museums of weapons. The industrial heritage [...] heritage of the region can best be appreciated in the Museum of Agriculture, Culture and Traditions in and around the house of Fabrica in Montecchio. The house was first recorded in 1770, and it was restored

Hobro, a small town at the head of the Mariager Fjord in north Jutland was adapted as the national museum of the gas industry in Denmark and opened in 2002. The first gas plant for public supply in the country [...] model of the Strandvejsgasvǽrket works as it was in 1943 is one of the principal features of the museum. The galleries illustrate the development of the industry in Denmark, from its use in lighting homes

remain include a foundry and a machine shop with cast-iron columns. Part of the site is occupied by a museum of armaments displaying many guns made on the site. Torre Annunziata, only 5 km from Pompeii, was

Partition in 1922, and coal traffic diminished during the 1950s. The line was closed in 1959, but a museum was established in the former narrow gauge station at Dromod in 1993. The engine shed and water tower [...] Stephenson & Co in 1887 have been preserved, No 2 at Cultra Manor, Belfast, and No 3 at the New Jersey Museum of Transportation.