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

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

accessible to visitors since 1995 as part of a monument trail complete with information boards. The museum concentrates on the industrial, cultural and social history of the region, with special emphasis

days several times a year. In addition the museum offers regular small-gauge railway trips around the site of the former clay pit. And every year at the Museum Festivities the huge ring furnace is set alight [...] the answers to all these questions on the historic brickworks site of the Westphalian Industrial Museum in Lage. The brickworks are situated in the heart of the Lippe region that was once renowned for [...] easy. You can see this for yourself inside the old workers’ cottages at the Lage brickworks. Here museum visitors can find out how more about the families’ everyday struggles to survive whilst their menfolk

and lectures. And from here you are free to visit the seven other fascinating museum sites administered by the LWL Museums of Industrial Culture. [...] families is the primary theme of the exhibition at this, the central site of the Westphalian Industrial Museum. The one thing you cannot do here is travel underground. The pit has been filled in on safety grounds [...] darkness and audiovisual projections that convey authentic impressions of the miners' working world. The museum's experience programme is rounded off by a programme of events including festivities, film evenings

the ship lift, today part of the Landschaftsverband (regional authority) of Westphalia-Lippe (LWL) Museums of Industrial Culture, was regarded as a technological masterpiece. The old engine house offers a

that are produced are also for sale in the museum shop. A very different experience is given by the historic Herding Spinning Mill, which is part of the museum complexand which provides an accessible space [...] Whirring belts, rattling looms, the smell of oil and work: the Museum replicates the activities in an early 20th century cotton mill. The reconstructed brick buildings follow the historical examples of [...] can follow each step from yarn to the woven end-products, they can look over the shoulders of the museum staff winding, shearing and pulling and can witness how Jacquards looms weave pre-programmed patterns