began in 1916, and production reached a peak in 1980 with an annual output of 31 million tonnes. The museum is based at a mine that began production in 1937. Shale from shallower deposits was extracted by [...] buildings where oil-bearing shale was separated from other stones, and towers where it was burned. The museum has a collection of oil paintings of the mines, and a display of equipment includes Esku, the 50

history of motor transport generally and pay particular attention to motor cars built in Finland. The museum is the location for many events, particularly for gatherings of bikers. The shop prides itself in

The Finnish Museum of Car and Road Mobilia is the national museum responsible for its special field, roads and road traffic. The museum is located by Lake Längelmävesi in Kangasala, about half an hour's [...] exhibitions include a permanent exhibition on the construction and use of Finnish roads, the Rally Museum, an open-air exhibition on the use of emergency labour in road construction, an annual main exhibition [...] France in 1898, a Mercedes-Benz Waxemberger and many cars made in the Soviet bloc before 1990. The museum has strong links with motorsport and enthusiasts who collect particular marques, and has an ambitious

The hammer mill is a water-powered iron forge preserved by the Museum of West Bohemia. It is located 25 km east of the city of Pilsen. An ironworks existed on this site in the 1650s. At one time there

The Museum of Agricultural Machinery and Equipment is a branch of the National Museum of Agriculture at Čáslav, east of Prague. It is open from April to October. The focus of the displays is the development

The glassworks museum is the historical site of a complete glassworks in the countryside in the centre of the Czech Republic, 85 km south-east of Prague. The Jakub glassworks was founded by Ferdinand Čapek [...] workshops with roof vents to remove the heat surround a tall brick chimney. The oldest buildings at the museum date from the 1820s. The site was further developed by the Rückel family from 1844 and then by the

Zastava and a Zagreb electric tram. The museum also maintains an archive of historic photographs and films that reach back to the early years of motoring. The museum is the home of the Society for the Study [...] The museum was begun in Zagreb in 2013 and moved just outside the city to the north-west in 2018. It is now at Westgate Shopping Centre, on the A2 highway between Jablanovec and Zaprešić. It was founded [...] in 1901 drove the first car in Zagreb and established a car dealership and maintenance garage. The museum contains over 100 cars, motorcycles and bicycles. The vehicles include early examples such as a

Historama is a large transport museum at Ferlach in the south of Austria. It is one of a network of heritage projects by the non-profit organisation Die Nostalgiebahnen in Kärnten (Nostalgia Railways of

have largely disappeared. Only the award-winning Black Country Living Museum is still deeply rooted in Victorian times. The Museum effortlessly transports visitors to the late 18th and early 19th century [...] seams and the vents of industrialization turned this area black. All the buildings of the open-air museum are original and have been moved here to save them from development. Costumed staff bring the period

Correspondingly there is a huge range of goods boasting the label “Made in Sheffield”. The Kelham Island Museum, housed on the site of a disused generating station, is an impressive presentation of the city’s

ago. If you leave the overhead railway at the 'Werther Brücke' stop, you will reach the experience museum 'Schwebodrom' after a short walk. In three sections, it presents the history of mobility at the end

exhibition of brewing. The site is a national historical monument and branch of the National Agricultural Museum. The beautiful copper brewing equipment made by Škodawerke in Plzeň in 1930 is fully conserved in

Near the village of Svatý Jan pod Skalou, the Solvay Quarries open-air museum (skansen) is concerned with limestone quarrying and transport. The quarry started in 1916 to provide limestone to a factory [...] operates with diesel and electric locomotives, passenger wagons and tipping wagons. Other objects at the museum include quarry dumper trucks, a bulldozer and a 1927 steam locomotive made by Schwartzkopff in Berlin

The mining museum in the historic town of Planá (also called Planá u Mariánských Lázní) tells the story of mining in western Bohemia since the 16th century for silver, lead, copper, cobalt, nickel, antimony [...] antimony and uranium. The Ondřej Šlik adit, where the museum in located, was dug at the end of the 16th century and continued until the late 20th century. The Šliks also had a mint for making coinage in [...] in the centre of Planá. The displays are in a museum building and the underground workings. They show samples of minerals, coins made from metals mined locally, safety equipment, working tools and mining

until 1992 in the mountains on the present border of the Czech Republic and Poland. It opened as a museum in 2003. The minerals extracted at the mine included fluorite, barytes, galena and quartz, which [...] electric locomotive and trams, and mining equipment such as rock drills driven by compressed air. In the museum on the surface are samples of minerals, tools, safety equipment and models and displays about the

was rebuilt after a fire in the 1940s, and glass-cutters in the cutting room opened in 1895. The museum was created in the manager’s house in 1994. The displays include thousands of fine glass products

This factory was already a technical museum before it ceased operations, because briquetting presses and plate dryers from the 1883-1895 series were running here till 1959. A single 12 horsepower steam [...] provides guests with a clear idea of the individual stages of briquette production. The only kiln museum in central Germany shows how briquettes were used in private households. The visit is rounded off

under the direction of the architect Juan Navarro Baldeweg was transformed into a cultural centre and museum of water power, that was completed in 1989. It now accommodates a permanent display explaining the [...] workings of water mills, and the many ways in which mills influenced the workings of society. The museum makes extensive use of interactive and digital media, and the architect has received a succession

The Maison Musée Nicéphore Niépce is the place where the very first photograph in the world was taken by the inventor of photography himself: Nicéphore Niépce. Among other things, the House houses the

You want to know how industrialisation welds a small town and its people together into a whole? Then you have to go to Monfalcone in Italy. Since 1908, when the first ship was launched here - a place