known as ‘Golden Kremnika’. The last gold was extracted in 1970. However the adit that is now the museum was created during an attempt to restart mining in 1982 and restored by a group of enthusiasts in

Central Elétrica preserves equipment for electricity generation by waterpower, steam and diesel. The first hydroelectric power station on the site was bult by the company Cardoso d'Argent in 1902 to s

important place for whale fishing. The Boqueirão factory operated from 1944 to 1984 and became a museum in 2015. It was started in response to the rise in oil prices during the Second World War. Whales [...] included ambergris for perfumery, bone for carving and corsets, and meat and bones for fertiliser. The museum shows harpoons, bone artefacts, a boat and other objects and shows a film of one of the last catches

The museum opened in 2021 inside the national velodrome, Centro de Alto Rendimento. It uses the circular space beneath the cycleway. Its subject is the national and worldwide history of motorcycles and

The museum preserves a flour mill built in 1925 with all its equipment in working order – the Fábrica de Moagem de José Mateus Vilhena. It is located in the village of São Domingos in southern Portugal [...] Portugal, a rich area for grain production. The mill worked for 59 years. It opened to the public as a museum in 2014. The two-storey building was built simply, with brick and rammed-earth walls and zinc roofs [...] thresh the grain at the harvest. The complete journey from grain to flour is visible to visitors. The museum is operated by the company JMV-Turismo Cultural in association with the municipality of Santiago

This is a museum about woollen manufacture by both handlooms and machines in the towns of Mira de Aire and Minde in the 20th century. It is a small carpet factory that opened in 1933 called Tapetes Dom [...] building is in a residential district with a single storey at the front and two at the back. The museum opened in 2020. It has equipment for all stages of processing, from raw wool to finished products [...] demonstrated using small handlooms and full-size weaving machines and products are available in a museum shop. Other objects on show include pattern-books of carpet designs and the contents of a complete

centres in England for the manufacture of carpets in the modern sense, i.e. woven floor coverings. The Museum of Carpet, set up in the Stour Vale Mills, presents traditional cloth weaving techniques on 19th

to establish and run a communal coal mining museum in the immediate neighbourhood. In 2001 Carreau Wendel was officially recognised as a state industrial museum.

There are more than 100 locomotives in the French Railway Museum, which is located to the north of the city in purpose-designed buildings of 1976, which have been subsequently enlarged. The collection

The Autovision Museum at Altlußheim in Baden-Württemberg begins with the invention nearby in around 1817 by Karl Drais of the velocipede or laufmachine – a two-wheeled antecedent of the bicycle. The displays

Finland's Museum of Technology, founded in 1969 and opened in 1975, is housed in the historic waterworks buildings that were built in the 1870s for the Helsinki Water Board and closed in the 1960s. They [...] are spectacularly located on the island of Kuninkaankartano at the mouth of the Vantaa River. The museum uses interactive exhibits to tell the story of Finland's development from an agrarian society to

the first aluminium boats in Finland, called Kellovene. The factory ceased operations in 1979. The museum exhibition on site presents the ironworks history and the surrounding village life in many ways. [...] that were manufactured, showing the large range of the varitey of items that were manufactured. The museum is located in the old factory area in the lower workshop, and also has annually changing exhibitions

industrial past. The Valvilla Wool Mill Museum, established over 40 years ago, is located in the former factory fire station in the wool mill's inner courtyard. The museum tells the story of the wool spinning

ehxibitions take place at the museum every year. In Myllysaari one can also visit Finland's Football museum. Some few hundred meters away there is Kauppilanmäki outdoor museum where visitor can explore how [...] in the heart of the city, by the beautiful canal, is home for two museums and functions as a venue for cultural events. In the museum there is a permanent exhibition that tells a story of the history of

and his house, begun in 1873 and completed in 1891 is preserved as a monument. The Regional History Museum was established in 1924 and was originally concerned with the development of mining and the iron

ropes are needed). Braiding machines can also be seen in operation. Nearby, the Dales Countryside Museum in the former railway station preserves a steam locomotive and carriages and includes displays about

The museum at Gosport provides an opportunity to observe how submarines are constructed as well as about the lives of the crews who manned them. It occupies the site of HMS Dolphin , the training centre [...] centre on land for the Royal Navy’s submariners for more than a century. It is part of the National Museum of the Royal Navy and also of the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard group, and is linked with the Dockyard [...] bus that plies the short distance across the mouth of Portsmouth Harbour. The centrepiece of the museum is HMS Alliance , a submarine of the Second World War. During a 45-minute tour visitors can see the

The museum in Agia Paraskevi on the island of Lesvos,a site of the Museum Network of the Cultural Foundation of the Piraeus Bank Group (PIOP), is located in a former communal oil mill, in which both a

stairways. Alongside the brewery is a shop with a reception area for participants in brewery tours and a museum describing the history of the village.

The Rochdale Pioneers Museum exists to preserve the original store of the Rochdale Pioneers and to generate an understanding of the ideals and principles of the co-operative movement. Toad Lane, Rochdale [...] co-operative in America and the Rochdale co-operative taxi fleet in Mexico. The Rochdale Pioneers Museum was opened in April 1931 at 31 Toad Lane, Rochdale in the building where the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers