Stefan, Mietek, Dolores and Ziuta are names that are close to the hearts of the local museum guides. For behind these names are four extant historic weaving looms that are regularly used to demonstrate [...] of the 19th century. Demonstrations are part of the interactive tour for visitors to the factory museum in the Manufaktura shopping complex which traces the path of cotton from the cotton bolls to the

The principal museum of technology in France dates from 1794, the time of the French Revolution, when a national conservatory of arts and trades (Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers) was created [...] with the patent system and acquired many models and drawings submitted by aspirant patentees. The museum’s Industrial Portfolio includes more than 20,000 drawings and paintings of industrial subjects, including [...] drawings by Jacques de Vaucanson (1709-82), the Grenoble-born inventor of automata. Selections from the museum’s collection of more than 80,000 artefacts are displayed in thematic rooms relating to such topics

iron mines in Normandy. The museum also features a video documentary on the history of the Littry mine and a reconstructed underground gallery 70 m long. At the end of the museum is an impressive working [...] the resumption of production, and mines in the area continued to work until the early 1950s. The museum, one of the first in France to be devoted to coal mining, dates from 1902, and provides a broad picture

Gare de l'Hôpital and the Arsenal. An original model of the double-acting engine of 1785 is in the Museum of Arts and Trades in Paris. By 1786, the company supplied 20,000 private houses as well as numerous [...] exceedingly well’. The works continued to make engines after the dispute was settled. The Littry mining museum in Normandy displays a winding engine made by them in 1800.

Ivrea is a town 56 km north of Turin, whose main industry for much of the twentieth century was the manufacture of office equipment by Olivetti, founded in 1908 by the electrical engineer Camillo Oliv

computers and is still a global brand. Ivrea is a World Heritage site, where both the Laboratory-Museum and the Olivetti Historical Archive present Olivetti’s story.

Opened in 2014, Liberec Technical Museum is housed in four modern pavilions. Pavilion A is focused on transport and exhibits cars, motorcycles, bikes and railway locomotives, mostly manufactured in the

well as to the growth of mechanical engineering in the country. Examples of Rüti looms are in many museum collections worldwide.

site was purchased by Leeds City Corporation and opened as the city’s industrial museum in 1982. Visitors to the museum can see an array of textile machinery used and made in Leeds, together with their [...] tailoring, printing and leather industries were also of major importance. The city’s industrial museum is at Armley Mills, located between the River Aire and the Leeds & Liverpool Canal. There have been [...] the city’s printing industry is the board game Monopoly developed by John Waddington from 1922. The museum also displays examples of the products of the city’s extensive leather industry, and a small cinema

ocuments provide evidence about the life and work of the Greg family and their workforce. 3. A Living Museum Quarry Bank Mill and Styal Estate is still a working Cotton Mill producing over 9,000m (10,000 yards)

agents won the first Tour de Nice in 1899 in a vehicle named after his daughter. The Mercedes-Benz Museum displays a collection of 175 cars, the earliest of them a Karl Benz patent vehicle and a Daimler

These are some of the questions that the conference aims to explore and discuss. Site operators, museum and education professionals, civil society initiatives and researchers are cordially invited to submit

The Head of Steam Museum comprises North Road Station, opened in 1842 once part of the Stockton & Darlington, the adjacent goods shed and the nearby Hopetown Carriage Works. The museum opened as the Darlington [...] Darlington Railway Museum in 1975. Exhibits include George Stephenson’s Locomotion No 1 , which pulled the train on the opening day of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, and Derwent , built in Darlington [...] Line, Locomotion from 1892 and Derwent from 1898, and both belong to the national collection. The museum includes two other locomotives both from the North Eastern Railway, a 2-4-0 of 1885 and an 0-8-0

Ireland. The full history of the bridges and several artefacts can be seen at the Menai Heritage museum .

ideas that helped spread railways and locomotives across the world. The Stephenson Steam Railway Museum celebrates their achievements. It is located on a standard-gauge, single-track railway that runs [...] can take a ride on a 1950s passenger steam train or heritage diesel locomotives, which run from the museum to Percy Main.

entrance of the Truck Museum, the famous 'Slovenská strela' ("Slovak Arrow") express train is exhibited. Visits to the depository (guided tours only, organised by Tatra Technical Museum) are by reservation [...] The Tatra Truck Museum houses in the reconstructed building of the former Tatra foundry. It presents a unique collection of 80 Tatra trucks and chassis on an area of more than 5,000 m2. The oldest Czech

early buildings remain. The present technical museum has developed from the company museum established in 1947. It is now part of the Kopřivnice Regional Museum, a joint enterprise between the municipality [...] ty and the Tatra company, which also operates three other museums in the vicinity. The Technical Museum displays the many products of the Tatra company, coaches, motor cars including racing cars, aircraft

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

This museum focuses on the golden age of Zeppelin passenger airships. It is located in the residential area Zeppelinheim, which was built for airship crews at Rhein-Main airport in the 1930s. The rigid [...] Ferdinand von Zeppelin in the 1890s and was used commercially from 1910. The curved building of the museum, specially designed in 1988, resembles the interior of an airship. It contains large-scale models

of airships they have sparked people's imagination. People are also the main focus of the Zeppelin Museum at Friedrichshafen. Who was this Count Ferdinand Zeppelin sticking against all odds with the idea [...] tasks did the captains, radio operators and the rest of the on-board crew perform? Exploring the museum makes it easy to experience the enthusiasm of the early pioneers. It starts with a big screen showing