Finland’s national open air museum was established, like those of other Scandinavian countries, in the period of Romantic nationalism before the First World War, at a time when Finland formed part of the

ships’ radio rooms. A gallery is also devoted to vintage motorbikes. Run by dedicated enthusiasts, the museum opened in 2003 and has continued to expand to accommodate the growing collection.

The Museum of Liverpool is one of the group of national museums in the city that includes the International Slavery Museum and the Maritime Museum. It covers topics from prehistoric archaeology to The [...] The Beatles. It opened on the historic waterfront as the Museum of Liverpool Life in 1993 and moved in 2011 to a new building conceived by the Danish architects 3XN. The ground-floor displays focus on the

The Museum of Transport and Commerce at Hull has a long history. It began in around 1925 as one of the city’s museums. It moved to a new building in 2002 with the name Streetlife. The museum focuses on

many exhibits that show the evolution of aircraft through the first half of the 20th century. The museum’s Blériot XI biplane from 1909 is the world's oldest aeroplane that still flies. Among other aircraft

Near the city centre of Zaporizhia is The Boguslaev Technical Museum, also known as the Museum of Aviation and High-Tech “Motor Sich”. Opened in 2013, it is housed in an elegant building on the edge of [...] engines and gas turbines. The factory was destroyed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The museum contains a unique and impressive display of piston and jet engines together with models and examples

This brick warehouse is one of the prestigious museums in the Ironbridge World Heritage site. It was built in 1840 by the Coalbrookdale company to store iron products ready for shipment down the River [...] architect Samuel Cookson as a public showpiece for the iron company in the Gothic Revival style. The museum is increasingly affected by floods and a scale model of the Severn Gorge has been removed for safekeeping

pot and a clock - it appears as if the foreman has only just left his desk. This is how the Central Museum of Textiles recreates in detail some 200 years of daily working life and textile history in Łódź [...] of the first textile industry hubs in Poland, along with the Łódź City Culture Park, an open air museum setting with a collection of historic wooden houses and other buildings typical of the region.

freight wagons labelled "Deutsche Reichsbahn Königszelt" - the rolling stock owned by the Railway Museum in Silesia is as manifold as numerous, and it would take two kilometers of rails to have it lined [...] the middle of the 19th century, would become a fully-equipped transport hub one day. One of the museum‘s outstanding exhibits is the only functioning standard gauge steam locomotive in Lower Silesia - [...] engine shed. On weekends, a buffet car serves Polish dishes and snacks. ‚Steam galas‘, tours of the museum at night, a ride on an vintage car - a Warszawa M20 - converted into a rail trolley, and many other

to pull the trains across the Semmering. Some of these engines are still on display at the Südbahn Museum, which opened in 2004. Two listed railway sheds and the historic roundhouse tell the story of the

establishment of the National Aviation Museum near to the city’s Zhulyany Airport, which opened in 2003. It has developed into one of the principal aviation museums in Europe with a display of more than

The museum occupies two architecturally impressive water towers in Khreshchatyi Park, near the River Dnipro in the centre of the Ukrainian capital. The towers were built in 1872 and 1876 and reconstructed

chemicals and food. The Museum of Science and Technology and the Museum of Industrial Design are part of the Adrenalin City complex of cultural and entertainment venues. The museums were established in 2013 [...] presented in a way intended to interest visitors and inspire the designers of the future. The Korsaks’ Museum of Ukrainian Contemporary Art is also part of the Adrenalin City complex.

The museum displays tools and equipment used in fishing and imagery of maritime life and it explores aspects of the natural history of the sea. In the harbour at Jardim Oudinot, 8km away, the museum cares [...] The museum has existed since 1937 but was given a purpose-built new home in 2001. An aquarium to show living cod was added in 2013. The people of the nearby Aveiro Lagoon were leaders in the fishing industry [...] industry and the exploitation of cod stocks off Newfoundland and Greenland. The museum preserves a selection of historical vessels and large-scale models, from early sailing boats to modern trawlers. Visitors

some 4250 route km and provided local and interurban services across large parts of Belgium. The museum at Schepdaal was opened in 1962 in a former Vicinal depot, that was from 1887 the terminus of steam

the furnace pond had its use. It drove the furnace blowing engine via a waterwheel. Visitors to the museum can see for themselves - live - how this worked. An ancient steam engine is also still in operation

The museum in the castle has displays on the history of the youth hostel movement, but also on the geology and history of the region, including its industrial history. The entrance to the museum lies [...] lies 300 m from the Deutsche Drahtmuseum (German wire museum).

present day. The German Wire Museum exists since 1965. It was originally housed in a part of the mediaeval Altena Fortress but this was soon bursting at the seams. Since 1999 the museum has found a new home in [...] wire or wire netting you’re in for a huge and very pleasant surprise when you visit the German Wire Museum in Altena in the Sauerland region, south of the Ruhr. Here you can see everything which has been [...] measure extremely high temperatures and loads with the help of wire. It is no surprise that this museum is located in Altena. The industrial history of the town is brimming over with wire-drawers. Not

and it is regularly opened. The textile museum is on the most important museum of this kind in Italy. Covering an area of 2,400 square metres, the Textile Museum displays an extensive range of textiles [...] trading in 1994. The work of the factory rehabilitation begun in 2000. In May 2003 Prato Textile Museum (just operating since 1975) has been definitively housed in the converted Campolmi textile mill.

industrial heritage by the association “Haus für Industriekultur”. It has been owned by the Hessian State Museum Darmstadt’s department of typecasting, typesetting and print technology since 2001. The collection [...] dates back to the largest European type foundry, D. Stempel AG (1895-1985) in Frankfurt am Main. The museum demonstrates developments in the printing industry from the beginning of the 19th century right up