Waterford Wedgwood Royal Doulton, and the Victoria & Albert Museum, under which the collection will not be sold and will remain at Barlaston. The museum re-opened in 2015 as part of the World of Wedgwood attraction [...] 1938-40 production was moved to a garden setting at Barlaston, 8 km south of Etruria. The Wedgwood Museum collection dates from the eighteenth century, and currently consists of 80,000 works of art, ceramic [...] visitor centre was added in the mid-1970s, and further rebuilding took place in the 1980s. Another new museum building was opened in 2008. The future of the collection was threatened when it was declared to

The complex of historic buildings is very large and located on the edge of the city centre. The museum is in one of the historic buildings of the factory. It displays hundreds of hand guns, rifles, swords

town museum which is operated by volunteers and owned by a charitable trust. In 1995 the baths became the shoe factory of George Cox, but in 1995 the company moved to larger premises. The museum in its [...] Northamptonshire Film Archive for the showing of historical documentary films. On the ground floor the museum tells the story of the town from prehistory to the nineteenth century, and outside the building there

Minerals, weapons, uniforms and documents relating to the history of the pass are displayed in a museum, in a building that was once a cantonal customs house, adjacent to the hotel at the summit.

aqueduct of rivetted steel plates in one span of 33.5m. It is now a famous tourist attraction. The canal museum was first created fifty years ago and has been redeveloped to stay up to date. It explains the lives

historic factory site of Maste-Barendorf. Where brass was cast in the 19th century, an artists' and museum village now stretches out with numerous cultural events in the changing seasons, a participatory [...] bought the site and has since been working to preserve and revitalise the listed ensemble. The Needle Museum, which is located in the factory village, is currently being completely overhauled and is expected [...] playful experience, are still freely accessible at all times. An exhibition area in the municipal museum is dedicated to needle production.

and signalling, and since its re-opening has been part of the London Overground circuit. The Brunel Museum was established in 1961, in a building that housed the tunnel’s drainage pumps. It includes the Grand [...] Brunel later organised fairs and banquets there and it currently served as a performance space. The museum provides a full history of the tunnel and visitors are encouraged to travel by boat, train or on

part having been adapted as offices for English Heritage. Another part is occupied by the Steam museum whose collection includes several locomotives, among them the replica of the broad gauge North Star

factory – much further. The forefather of the dynasty, Johann Esche, had – as is shown in the Esche Museum in Limbach-Oberfrohna – recreated a stocking knitting frame in 1700 and thus sustainably influenced [...] After being carefully restored and redeveloped from 1998 to 2001, it now houses a Henry van de Velde museum with rooms including their original furnishings and other exhibits. It also serves as a meeting place

when the Flogberget society offers the occasional dramatized tour. There is also a small mining museum on site, which displays tools, geological maps and mineral specimens.

a visitor centre, a children’s park, a reconstructed mine for iron ore and the Karlberg homestead museum.

were erected on the site, which even included its own workers´ quarter. Nowadays visitors to the museum can go on an impressive guided tour which includes a demonstration of glass production at close quarters

The museum of cloth and technology explores how people have made woollen cloth for over 2,000 years, from the Iron Age to the present day. It occupies an impressive purpose-built building in the centre [...] centre of the town. The museum explains the whole process from the raw wool to the finished cloth. It has live demonstrations with spinning wheels and hand-looms and large-scale industrial machines for carding [...] making from the Middle Ages through the period of industrialization to the twentieth century. The museum also explains the growth of Neumünster from a village to a large industrial town. Visitors can try

mansion of the Kronberg family which dates from 1577. More examples may be seen in the Corporate Museum of Hoechst AG, and in the Polongaro Palace, a Baroque mansion that was the home in the late eighteenth

high up in the present. The entrance to the Hindenburg tower (built in 1934) in the Saarland Mining Museum in Bexbach is situated at a height of 40 metres. From here you can get an outstanding view of the [...] on request, with a “half shift” (a sausage and a roll) or a “coffee plate” (coffee and cake). The museum is surrounded by a flower garden, adjacent to which lies “Monte Barbara”, a disused greened over

step into the history of the Merzig-Büschfeld railway as told by the Museum in photos, paintings and videos. Members of the Museum Railway Club maintain the wagons in the workshops, whilst the arts centre [...] opened in 1906 and closed down in 1987. Today it is used by the locomotives from the Losheim Railway Museum. In 1906 a privately run company by the name of the "Merzig-Büschfelder Eisenbahngesellschaft" set [...] served by buses until official operations on the Merzig-Büschfeld line ceased completely. Since 1982 a Museum train from Losheim has been driving along the remains of the Merzig-Büschfeld line. A supporting

technical achievements that were essential for lignite surface mining. The Bergbau-Technik-Park (open air museum for mining technology) lets visitors learn about the technical implications of lignite extraction

Pfaff of Chemnitz. The history of mining is comprehensively depicted in the Municipal and Mining Museum, and the technical university, that incorporates the mining academy established in 1765, has extensive

and its breathtaking Stazione Centrale, begun in 1906 and completed in 1931. The Leonardo da Vinci Museum is located in a former convent, and covers many aspects of the history of science and technology

Norman cathedral there is a former monastic brew house dating from the medieval period. The Bridewell Museum, hosting an outstanding collection of industrial and social memories, is itself housed in a former