s were added in the 1950s but in 1962 broadcasting was relocated to Orlunda. The site has been a museum since 1976. The transmitter hall is preserved with its equipment from 1935 and examples of early

fine porcelain at the same location in the town and port of Porsgrunds in south-east Norway. The museum occupies an industrial building on the waterfront of the Skien river or Porsgrunnselva. It is next [...] profiled who have contributed designs to the factory, such as Nora Guldbrandsen and Odd Nerdrum. The museum also gives visitors an opportunity to try making porcelain for themselves. The Auction Hall nearby

The Museum is one of nine sites of the Memorial Museum of A. Baranauskas and A. Monk-Žukauskas, which was established in 1927 to preserve the heritage of the Anykščiai region. It is located in the station [...] engine, passenger cars and freight wagons. There is also a display of restored vintage cars. The museum allows visitors to climb onto the rolling stock and to ride a rail tricycle.

The museum is at the site of the Trabia Tallarita sulphur mine, about 7km west of Riesi on the Strada Statale 190 towards Sommatino. Central Sicily was the most important region in Europe for production [...] started in the 1830s and employed 3,000 people at its peak in 1920. It closed in 1975 and became a museum in 2010. The main displays are in the Palladio electrical power plant, which preserves three original

The museum of paper is in a working paper mill in the village of Acquasanta in the hills north-west of Genoa. The Piccardo paper mill was built in a narrow valley with a good supply of clean water in 1756 [...] 1756 and continued to operate until 1985. The museum was begun by the Commune of Mele in 1992. The tools and equipment have been kept in working order. Master papermakers still produce paper by traditional [...] them. The mill also has a continuous paper machine and numerous examples of tools and equipment. The museum shows audiovisuals and reconstructions. Courses and workshops are run for artisan papermakers.

The museum celebrates high-quality, decorative objects that were cast by specialist iron foundries for public spaces in the 19th and early 20th centuries – lamp posts, benches, fountains, railings and [...] is at the Neri factory in Via Emilia at Budrio, where the former painting shop is dedicated to the museum. An impressive range of beautifully cast items from different makers across Europe is on show in

1999 and it now houses a museum of the silk industry. The three-storey building appears like a palace, with grand staircase towers at the corners and courtyards inside. The museum has carefully recreated

items. The American company 3M invested in Ferrania until the late 1990s but it closed in 2017. The museum opened in 2018 in Palazzo Scarampi in the centre of Cairo Montenotte. It explores the century-long

The Ribbon Weaving Museum began in 1989 and is now part of the Museum Industiekultur Wuppertal. In 2020 it moved to the Nordstadt district, where it is housed in part of a five-storey former ribbon-weaving

here in 1967 but the initiative to create a museum began in 1987. This opened as the naval airship museum in 1991. Cooperation with the German Maritime Museum at Bremerhaven allowed it to expand its remit [...] Aeronauticum is the German museum of airships and naval aviation, situated near the North Sea port of Cuxhaven. It is located on an airfield that was created as a base for airships by the German navy at

private museum displays 350 examples of cars, motorcycles, tractors and other vehicles alongside other artefacts that show the central position of automobiles in recent social history. The museum was devoted [...] 1960s. The museum now has 150 motorcycles and cars and shows these alongside domestic objects such as period clothing, commercial packaging and reconstructions of period shops. Since 2023 the museum has also [...] widened to other automobiles in 2017 with the addition of exhibits from the Fritz B. Busch Automobile Museum. The largest part of the collection is still devoted to tractors and to rural life, with artefacts

This museum focuses on the golden age of Zeppelin passenger airships. It is located in the residential area Zeppelinheim, which was built for airship crews at Rhein-Main airport in the 1930s. The rigid [...] Ferdinand von Zeppelin in the 1890s and was used commercially from 1910. The curved building of the museum, specially designed in 1988, resembles the interior of an airship. It contains large-scale models

The museum opened at the former Oberkaufungen brickworks in 2006. It was developed by a voluntary association with support from the local authorities. The works produced bricks, roof tiles and fine ar [...] (later extended to 98m but reduced in height after a fire). At this time it employed 100 people. The museum is housed in a fine group of buildings with round-headed cast-iron windows and a tall chimney at

landmark. ‘Excavator 1452’ was preserved in 2001. This 33.5m-tall giant is the star exhibit in the museum. It has long steel booms and moves on caterpillar tracks. One boom holds the rotating excavator buckets

A branch of the German Agricultural Museum is based in the surroundings of the castle of Blankenhain in Saxony, together with its home farm. The grand complex with towers and mansard roofs stands next [...] the latest technology, including a steam engine, between 1860 and 1914. It became the base for the museum in 1981. It demonstrates changing technology in agriculture and rural transport through exhibitions [...] such as a caterpillar tractor made in Berlin, as well as tractors from the former Soviet Bloc. The museum claims the world’s largest collection of self-built tractors. A working threshing machine, ploughs

The Maison de la Brique is a former brickworks that traces the history of the brickmaker's trade, the nature of brick as a material and its use in Lower Normandy. Visitors can see the clay storage pit

‘Plastics Valley’ and contained over 600 companies as well as research and education bodies. The museum, currently based in the Aragon Cultural Centre, preserves 16,000 objects and tells the story of local

workshops. By 1925 there were 2,500 workers. It closed in 1983. Several businesses use the site today. A museum is located in the first hydroelectric plant for the works, built in 1898. Visitors see original turbines

history of production is placed in its local and international economic and cultural context. The museum offers guided tours and workshops where visitors can learn about colours and paints. Other walks

for operating the mines. The last pit closed in 1974. The impressive mining museum opened in 1983 is in two parts – a museum in the former offices of the mining company and the preserved Glénons mine shaft