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

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

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'

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

The mechanical pulp mill at Verla was founded in the 1870s by Hugo Neuman, a Finnish-born civil engineer who had worked in Zurich. The first mill buildings were destroyed by fire in 1892, but were rep

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