as does the textile mill which has been adapted as housing. The town’s history is illustrated in a museum in the Court House, which dates from 1773. The birthplace in Church Street of Hugh Miller (1802-56)

‘Cressy’, was maintained at Tooley’s Boatyard in Banbury, which is now conserved as part of Banbury Museum. The yard dates from circa the late eighteenth century and includes a dry dock and a smithy, both [...] the opposite side of the canal from the boat yard, with which it is linked by a bridge, is Banbury Museum, housed in a modern buildings. Its collection includes exhibits, amongst them a loom, relating to

costs are lower, although Pirmasens remains a centre for research into leather technology. The shoe museum is one of four that share accommodation in the old town hall in the centre of the town. It has a

The national railway museum of Norway is located on the shore of Lake Mjosa within a park where several wooden station building have been re-erected, and in which there is a steam-operated narrow gauge

history as North Rhine-Westphalia. A tight network of more than 60 industrial museums and visitor mines, almost 200 museums and facilities presenting the industrial history of NRW, and an even larger number

Railways. The roundhouse at the locomotive depot remains in use and in the vicinity there is an open air museum, managed by PKP, displaying a variety of steam locomotives in the vicinity. Plans were announced

maintains a base nearby from which fighter jets regularly fly over the city. The Norwegian Aviation Museum, located in a strikingly beautiful modern building, has a collection of aircraft of international [...] displayed, and the reserve collection includes more Saab aircraft and several from the former USSR. The museum has a lively programme of activities including demonstrations of the ejector seats fitted to fighter

The museum of the street tramway system of Zurich was founded in 1968, and moved to the former tram depot at Burgwies, which it shares with a supermarket, in 2008. The museum also has a workshop in the

The Surte Glassworks Museum near Alafors in West Gotland, 25 km north of Göteborg, commemorates a works that produced utilitarian glass ware for everyday use rather than works of art. It was founded in [...] was employed at the Surte works until he emigrated to the United States in 1883. Features of the museum include a huge collection of bottles, most of them manufactured at Surte, a representation of a glass

seen in the streets of the town in lamp brackets, shutters, ornamental fencing and fountains. The Museum of Iron Forging was established in 1952 in the 4-storey Klinar mansion in the town square that was [...] timber and brick smithy used from the 18th century until the mid-20th century which belongs to the museum.

There are many motor museums in Great Britain, one of the largest of which is at Beaulieu on the edge of the New Forest west of Southampton. It was founded in 1952 by Lord Montagu, whose ancestral home [...] collection grew to more than 100 vehicles within 10 years, and in 1970 was renamed the National Motor Museum. It now comprises more than 250 motor cars and motorcycles, the majority of them made by British [...] While the building is a replica, the hundreds of tools and fittings are genuine artefacts. The Motor Museum is one of several visitor attractions on the Montagu estate that are jointly marketed. Others include

remain as monuments. Limoges is still the principal centre of porcelain manufacture in France. The museum of the porcelain industry was founded in 1845 by the local archaeological and historical society [...] which he had purchased, and acted as curator from 1865. He persuaded the local authority to allow the museum to be moved into a former lunatic asylum. In 1881, the year of his death, it was taken over by the

industry subsequently contracted, and the last domestic weavers ceased working about 1960.The idea of a museum of weaving in the village was put forward in 1977, and an old workshop owned by the community was [...] increased. In 1993 the community acquired an old factory, once owned by the Braud company, and the museum occupied it from 1998. Visitors can now see displays about the history of silk weaving in Bussières

first of the present museum buildings was opened in 1981, and extensions were added in 1985, 1989, 1995 and 1998. In 1996 the museum was taken into the care of the Finnish Aviation Museum Foundation, and was [...] The Finnish Aviation Museum occupies a site close to Helsinki’s Vantaa international airport. It originated with a collection displayed by the Aviation Museum Society from 1969 which was exhibited elsewhere [...] was formally recognised as a national museum the following year. The collection includes about 80 civil and military aircraft (some of them fuselages only), of which 72 are currently displayed. They include

centre is the opportunity to bathe in a pool that has the same degree of salinity as the Dead Sea. The museum shop offers a unique range of flavoured salts.

of Zealand. Andelslandbyen Nyvang (which loosely translates as ‘share the village’) is an open air museum of the co-operative movement which portrays in detail life in Danish villages and small towns between [...] by many others, and by co-operatives producing bacon and ham for export. The 24 buildings in the museum include a co-operative shop where, in addition to the wares offered for sale, visitors can examine

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