The tile museum at the town of Onda, 50km north of Valencia, was started in 1968. It moved recently to a purpose-built and spacious gallery and was renamed for the Onda artist and ceramicist Manolo Safont [...] Safont (1928-2005). The museum is focused on architectural ceramics in Valencia. Onda is famous for its decorative tiles and ceramic murals and also for its decorated earthenware plates, bowls, jugs and [...] and basins. The museum collections totalling over 30,000 items, including tiles, vessels, tools, equipment and documents. They range in date from Roman times to the present day, and especially the 19 th and

purchased by the local authority in 1996. It became part of the MNACTEC network of Catalan technology museums and opened to visitors in 2009. Above the gate is a sign that says ‘Fabrica de Alcohol Vinico’. Inside

agricultural museum for the area in 1982. It portrays the last hundred years of life on farms in that part of Finland, showing above all the impact of mechanisation on agriculture. The museum has a collection [...] southern Finalnd, 60 km W of Helsinki, an area where many of the population speak Swedish. A small museum of homesteads (Siuntion Kotiseutumuseo, Pappilantie 22B, 92570 Siuntio, +358 (0)40 7689591), on the

Vapriikki opened to the public in 1996, and the building was fully ready as a museum in 2000. The total floor area of the museum centre is approximately 14,000 m2, half of which is devoted to exhibition [...] Vapriikki is a versatile museum centre located by the Tammerkoski river, where visitors can explore over ten exhibitions on history, natural sciences and technology all at once. Together with other operators [...] the 1990s. The Swedish word ‘fabrik’ became the Finnish ‘vapriikki’ in the last century, and the museum centre was named Vapriikki to emphasise the significance of its location in Finnish industrial history

be exhibited in the projected company museum. It opened in 1984 in a former state-owned granary, which Rosenlew had purchased earlier and now turned into a museum. One of the highlights of the permanent [...] given its current design by Finnish star designer Timo Sarpaneva in the early 1960s. Visitors to the museum will find around 6,000 objects as well as archived documents and photos that bring the 134-year history

Musée Bolo is the Swiss Museum of Computer Science, Digital Culture and Video Games. It occupies Building INF of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Faculty of Computer Science and Com [...] Communications. The collection was begun in 1995 by the engineer, Yves Bolognini and it became a museum in 2002, now run by the foundation Mémoires Informatiques. The diverse collections include several thousand [...] Polytechnic School. An important collection of games and video consoles is also represented. The museum in laid out for visitors to explore the collections in any order.

mountain resort of Kandersteg, part of a building formerly used as Swiss army pharmacy has become a museum of cable cars or ‘aerial lifts’. Switzerland can be said to be the home of the aerial lift for passengers [...] visitors up mountains: cheaper to build and run than funicular railways and not disrupted by snow. The museum collections were made by enthusiasts who saved objects and equipment such as gondolas and chairlifts

ago that uses excavator equipment on a large scale. It remains a family company. Ebianum is their museum of the history of construction machinery and changing ways of working. It is housed in a building

The Blonay-Chamby Museum Railway rises into the mountains above Lac Leman with spectacular views. It was created by volunteers in 1968 and operates with restored steam and electric locomotives. It is connected

Located in the industrial city of Vassa, this is Finland’s largest private car museum. Owned by Vaasa Vintage Car Society, it opened in 1981 and moved to its present building in 2010. It explores the history

At Riihimaki, north of Helsinki, is Finland’s national museum of the glass industry. The origins of the museum were in 1961 but in 1980 it relocated to a former industrial building. This began in 1914 [...] crystal. The beautiful spaces and elegant displays of the museum were created by the leading designer Tapio Wirkkala. The focus of the museum is on the three centuries of the glass industry in Finland [...] design. There are temporary exhibitions of historical collections and contemporary glass artists. The museum also houses a research library and archive. Nearby are other glassworks buildings adapted to new

altitude of 1,250m in the Pyrenees is open from June to September as part of MNACTEC, the technical museums network of Catalunya. It comprises a sawmill, a flour mill and a hydro-electric power plant using

to the 1940s. The museum dates from 1977. Its collections are administered jointly with those of the Arabia glassworks in Helsinki and the Littala works at Kalvola by the Design Museum Foundation.

From the beginning most of the workings were underground, and surface extraction ceased in 1956. The museum of mining opened in 1988. The complex now comprises more than 60 km of tunnels, some of them 110

extensive archives were transferred to the museum. The main exhibition of the Forssa Museum, the City of Colourful Cloth, tells the story of Forssa community. Museum Gallery Moletti, an atmospheric little [...] focuses on contemporary and textile art. Forssa Museum was the Museum of the Year 2014 in Finland and a nominee for the Emya prize in 2015. In 2021, the museum opens a new site Pattern Centre, dedicated to [...] drawings from more than 130 designers with emphasis on the 1950s-1980s Finnish and Finlayson design. The museum is located on the Spinning Mill Area, which is a combination of 19th century factory architecture

that of the Finnish foundry industry. The museum complex consists of the Foundry Museum, the Högfors Blast Furnace and the Workers' Museum. The Foundry Museum shows the various stages in the history of [...] furnace, see the bellows and imagine the work required to stoke the flames. The Workers' Museum is an open-air museum that shows the regional living and working conditions between the 1850s and 1960s. Several [...] The Finnish Foundry Museum is located on the site of the Högfors foundry, which was founded in the 19th century and played an important role in Finnish iron production. Today, the well-preserved buildings

businesses, particularly craftsmen, and there are extensive conference and hotel facilities. The museum in Fiskars shows the culture of the ironworks from the seventeenth century to the present, and the [...] the living conditions of the workers at various dates. During the summer in the Fiskars Museum, the scent of freshly baked bread, spun wool and linen laundry hovers in the air as the folks of the Ironworks

used charcoal for its fresh fire operation. It was in use until 1950. Since 1960, it has housed a museum where visitors can learn how historic ironworks were run, how the forge worked and what tools were [...] make iron objects such as nails and tools. The neighbouring sawmill, built in1887, is also used as a museum. The church in the ironworks settlement dates from to the early 1770s and there are still many workers'

industrial museum occupies a huge complex of red-brick buildings that cross to an island over rapids on the river Kymijoki. It was built as a mill for manufacturing cardboard in 1872. It became a museum in 1997 [...] Visitors also see the hydroelectric plant completed in the 1920s with its original turbines. The museum highlights the stories of nine individual people who worked at the plant. Models, photographs and

The Maritime Centre Vellamo at Kotka is Finland’s national maritime museum, and is the responsibility of the National Board of Antiquities. It opened in 2008 and has a spacious boat hall and an auditorium [...] special emphasis on winter navigation in northern latitudes, together with the work of icebreakers. The museum has extensive archives with 2000 historical maps, more than 30,000 photographs and the database of