services, and a ‘Krieglok’ 2-10-0 constructed in Poland in 1943. The museum prides itself on being the first interactive railway museum in Europe, and visitors can enjoy many experiences, riding on a horse [...] the kind used by MAV for training footplate staff. MAV Nosztalgia Kft, which is associated with the museum, operates excursions, some of them hauled by steam locomotives, some over routes rarely used by passenger [...] frontiers into neighbouring countries. A four-wheel railcar operates a service for visitors to the museum over the 5 km from Budaptes Nyugati station.

employed 6,000 people by 1895. The foundry closed in 1964. The casting hall occupied by the museum. The museum illustrates the life of Abraham Ganz, the history of the building, the role of foundries in [...] The foundry museum occupies the buildings of the engineering work established by the Swiss ironfounder Abraham Ganz (1815-1867) who moved to Budapest in 1841 and opened his own works in 1844, specialising [...] then engaged largely in making turbines and other electrical equipment. Its products can be seen in museums of technology in many European cities.

electricity. A small museum was established which tells the story of the plant, and includes a portable engine of the type first used to generate electricity in the town. The museum and power plant are

equipment and household appliances, are of particular importance. The museum also takes responsibility for some industrial sites and museums in other parts of the republic. [...] independent Czechoslovakia of the 1920s and 30s was in the forefront of industrial design. The National Museum has collections of machines, vehicles, clocks and cameras, but the departments of industrial design

precautions and social benefits in the wet and dark “mousetrap” as one of the pits on the mining museum’s site was infamously called. Former employees vividly explain to the visitors how they extracted

the colliery has been open to visitors since 1999. Nowadays „Ignacy” combines the functions of a museum in a modern way with the organisation of cultural events. After the revitalisation works in 2022

island, 1100 km south-west of Lisbon. The history of wine production in the island is celebrated in a museum established by the Institute of Wine in a building that once belonged to Henry Veitch, English consul [...] photographs, prints, barrels and other utensils used in winemaking. The same industry features in another museum in Funchal, the Sao Franciso Cellars, in a former monastery, a collection of ancient buildings clustered

MATER is the last big Basque wooden tuna ship. After it stopped fishiing, it was saved from being broken up by Itsas Gela, in 2003. Nowadays, MATER is docked at the port of Pasaia, and has become a tr

Albaola the Maritime Heritage Factory is a shipyard-museum dedicated to the promotion and development of Basque maritime heritage. It focuses particularly on the construction of historic boats and ships

The core of the museum of communications in Frankfurt is the part of the collection of the museum established in Berlin by Heinrich von Stephan (1831-97) that was removed to Hesse after the Second World [...] able to operate much of the equipment that is displayed. The museum is now managed by the Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation (Museum trust for post and telecommunications), established in 1995 during [...] World War by the United States army. The collection was put on display, as the Federal Postal Museum, in a sandstone villa in Frankfurt in 1958, and re-located in 1990 to a glass and aluminium in the Modernist

shafts extending 527 m below the surface that ceased operation in 1997. The decision to develop a museum on the site was taken as early as 1993 when the mine was still working, and some of the surface buildings [...] in 1994 in celebration of the mine’s 120th anniversary. The project became part of the OKD Mining Museum at Ostrava in 2001. Visitors are able to explore a show gallery that extends 130 m into the Homola

the collection was officially taken into the newly-opened German Blade Museum in the former Gräfrath town hall. In 1991 the museum moved to its final destination in the imposing buildings of the old Gräfrath [...] 20th century. The products of this unique cutlery industry can be seen today in the German Blade Museum in the Solingen suburb of Gräfrath. The exhibits include every sort of sword and dagger whether they [...] aristocratic table. In addition there is a traditional tin works in the lower ground floor of the museum showing how pewter tableware was made. The most famous local example of such tableware is the so-called

commercials advertising the beer. Visits to the museum can also include tours of the nearby production plant. The buildings on Via Nizza occupied since 1999 by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome (MACRO) were [...] cities both in the north and the south. It is now part of an international brewing conglomerate. A museum project was inaugurated on the occasion of the company’s 150th anniversary in 1996. Documentation [...] s and 1400 films, and a research centre was established enabling scholars to use the archives. A museum was opened to the public in 2001 and includes four main sections, concerned with the process of brewing

It is now the largest drinks manufacturer in Estonia, making beer, cider and soft drinks. The Beer Museum is in a malt tower of 1898. Large displays tell the story of brewing from ancient times to the present [...] and barrels. Guided tours (in Estonian, English or Russian) visit the production premises and the museum and end with a product tasting.

This national museum furthers knowledge of twelve centuries of military history in times of war and peace. In the 1910 World Fair held in Brussels, a young officer called Louis Leconte brought together

The museum of communications in Nurnberg shares the premises of the railway museum, and the two comprise the city’s Verkehrsmuseum (Museum of Traffic), although the former is managed by the Museumsstiftung [...] Telekommunikation (Museum trust for post and telecommunications), established in 1995 during the federal postal reforms that followed re-unification, which also has responsibility for museums in Berlin and [...] and Frankfurt. The main emphasis in the Nürnberg museum is on postal communications, particularly in Bavaria, and the display of mail coaches and the equipment that went with them in the years before main

company has a factory shop and an interactive museum on the premises, and other aspects of the history of Giengen are illustrated in the nearby municipal museum which includes a general store of 1904, and

past once more. The climax of this journey back in time is a visit to the Big Pit: National Coal Museum. Here visitors climb into a cage and descend 90 metres to the pit floor below. Former colliery workers

radio and television programmes are transmitted, the station and many of the masts remain in use. The museum displays show the development of radio and television technology through the 20th century and into [...] research purposes. Components such as valves which are no longer manufactured are also displayed. The museum offers a wide range of activities. It is possible to listen to old radio broadcasts and to watch

The Estonian Paper Museum has comprehensive displays showing how paper is made, and on the history of printing. There are old printing presses with wooden and lead type founts, together with examples of [...] of paper sculpture. The museum regularly holds workshops teaching visitors book-binding, particularly of personal notebooks, poster-printing and the making of three-dimensional postcards.