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

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

the locomotive as it chuffs peacefully along the Ruhr valley. There is no doubt that the Railway Museum in the Bochum suburb of Dahlhausen arouses a lot of nostalgia. On Sundays there is always a hand-lever [...] nearby station at Bochum-Dahlhausen. The station with its restored entrance hall also belongs to the museum. Amongst the exhibits to be seen here is a collection of rail tickets. The fact that none of this [...] Maintaining and repairing the huge amount of vehicles in the correct manner is a major part of the museum´s activities. The Bochum-Dahlhausen railway works first went into operation in 1918 as a repair workshop

Lea (1866-1940) of Shrewsbury. Armstrong`s first experimental hydraulic machine is displayed in the Museum of Science and Industry at Newcastle.

installed in 1949 generates electric power to work 50-year-old looms and can be viewed. The mill museum includes carding engines, spinning mules and warping machines. A 12 minute video shows how the wool

workshop for making balloons in the First World War, and for many years was an outpost of the air museum at le Bourget airport. It is designated as an historical monument, and was inscribed on the French

Factory’ was the first fully-fledged textile mill in Poland. The site is now home to the Central Museum of Textiles and is considered one of the country's most impressive monuments of industrial architecture [...] insight into 200 years of everyday working life and textile history in Łódź. A special feature of the museum is the way it combines technical and industrial history with art, design, fashion, regional history [...] uninhabited Jaworzyna Śląska an important transport hub ever since the mid-19th century. The Railway Museum of Silesia uses a large number of historical rolling stock and a ‘steam locomotive route’ that follows

slate tiles on almost every roof in Britain had been mined and cut by Welshmen.The National Slate Museum in Llanberis gives visitors a vivid impression of their masterly skills. It is located in the Victorian

Locomotion is a branch of the National Railway Museum (see York) that incorporates the earlier museum established in Shildon commemorating the achievements in the development of the steam locomotive of [...] In two large halls around 110 vehicles from the collection of the National Railway Museum are displayed. The museum complex includes Soho Cottage, the modest home of the Hackworth family, an iron merchant’s

years. Yet, the site is open to visitors on certain days as “museum under construction”. The centerpiece of the unique European Railway Museum taking shape here will be the enormous roundhouse with its 29