terraces, large windows, central heating, telephones, lifts and other modern equipment. Mallet-Stevens designed all the furniture in Modernist style. The building was set in a geometrical parkland with lawns [...] The Villa Cavrois is the stylish Modernist house of the industrialist Paul Cavrois, owner of five textile factories at Roubaix, which was once known as the ‘city of a thousand chimneys’. Cavrois specialised [...] built his house he departed from traditional bourgeois villa architecture and chose the French Modernist architect Robert Mallet-Stevens. Completed in 1932, the house was built of brick, steel and glass

gatherings of bikers. The shop prides itself in being one of Europe’s best sources of model cars. Providing rare Soviet-made models is a speciality. [...] Längelmävesi lakes. The collection of 50 vehicles includes a Rolls Royce Silver Ghost of 1921, a Model-T Ford and a Trabant Limousine of 1977. The displays illustrate the history of motor transport generally

earliest made to recent models. Among the unique items is a man-powered flying machine made in Austria in 1913. Visitors can try setting a traditional railway signal or operate a model railway layout. The [...] open-plan exhibition space of 4,700 square metres in a former factory building. They represent most modes of transport in Austria, including horse carriages, bicycles, trams and trains, motor vehicles and

and located in the Bavarian mountains in a stylish modern building with a plan shaped like a number 8. At the heart of the museum is a spectacular model railway that extends to 550 square metres and shows [...] and Porsche cars with which Hans-Peter Porsche is associated, including the beautiful early Porsche models 550 and 356 and iconic Volkswagen vehicles.

lives of the sewer workers. From the modern entrance building on the surface, guides take visitors into underground galleries and tell them about the water cycle. Models and tools are used to show work in [...] the French capital. Parisian sanitation has evolved from the Roman era and the Middle Ages up to modern day, above all through the ambitious engineering designs of Eugène Belgrand in the 19th century to

al d’Architecture Moderne held in Athens in 1933. In 1927 he visited London to design a shop for Helena Rubinstein, the perfume manufacturer, which was said to be the first Modernist shop in the city. [...] Erno Goldfinger was one of the pioneers of the modern movement in architect. His career spanned several countries, and he profoundly influenced patterns of social housing. He was born in Budapest but left [...] and Auguste Perret, a pioneer of concrete construction. He came to know many of the leaders of the Modern Movement, Max Ernst, Robert Delannay, with whom he collaborated on film set designs, Adolf Loos,

Giovanni Sacchi was a maker of wooden models whose work had a profound influence on the design of consumer goods in the second half of the 20th century. He was born in the industrial community of Sesto [...] of 12 in the Milan foundry of Ceresa e Boretti. He established his own workshop in 1948, and his models for many decades helped designers to refine their ideas and, with production engineers, to work out [...] international companies including Fiat, IBM and Philips, and in the course of his career made some 25,000 models. He is perhaps most celebrated for his role in designing the Lettera 22 typewriter, but he also helped

Solana company with a pipeline for brine from salt wells several kilometres away. Production was modernised in the 1960s and the company still produces salt today. The old plant is now a museum. The Solana [...] present day. It displays ancient wooden tools and artefacts preserved by the salt, workers' costumes, models and processing areas with evaporation pans.

, showed how it could be used to model buildings and busts of people. The museum occupies the first floors of two nearby houses in Dumtsa Jenöutca, and includes models of the Hungarian parliament building

River Marne which powered its Girard turbines. The design of the workers’ housing was influenced by model industrial settlements in Britain. The River is crossed by a single-span footbridge designed by Armand [...] concrete construction. Other buildings include the chateau that was the home of the Menier family, and a model farm. Noisiel is now the French headquarters of Nestlé International, and is interpreted by the local

Greenland. The museum preserves a selection of historical vessels and large-scale models, from early sailing boats to modern trawlers. Visitors can go on board a cod boat to imagine the life of the men who

Hurtu quadricycle made in France in 1899. In many cases, manufacturers are represented by multiple models across a long timeline, for example Aston Martin with 6 cars from 1969 to 2002, Cadillac with 11 [...] Examples of working vehicles include an early fire engine, a popcorn wagon and a Porsche tractor. All models displayed are kept in working order by the in-house team, who have restored many of the vehicles

boat people. Artefacts on display include plans, photographs, objects dredged from the river and scale-models of barges, a shipyard, locks and a working boat lift. The collections were started in 1985 and

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 [...] focus on the history of trams in the region but also a display of buses and a collection of scale models. Pavilion D exhibits luxury cars such as Rolls-Royce and Cadillac.

including design drawings by the first architect, Giuseppe De Min. A large-scale model shows the town in the mid-1960s. Other models show plants owned by the company elsewhere.

It is in the Vila Verde, an accommodation building for miners designed by Barreiros Leal in a modernist style in 1963. It contained reading and games rooms, a dining room, bathrooms and bedrooms for over [...] records of the São Pedro da Cova coal company and objects including banners, lamps, helmets, wagons, models and a rail car for transporting coal to the electricity generating station. A walk 1km to the south

18m waterfall on the River Tarn. The displays use animated models, films and demonstrations. A sound and light show brings to life a 23-m model of the works. The working-class community that grew up around

collection ranges from a prototype from 1948 to new models and examples for a multitude of uses. As well as vehicles, the museum shows parts, cutaway models, photographs and films. Outside, a circuit gives

buildings with around 40 major objects on display in the open air alongside an indoor exhibition of scale-models, photographs, original artefacts and ephemera. In addition to its own collection, the museum has

visitors learn through hands-on experience – including working models of aerodynamics and piston operation, driving simulators and a model-car racetrack. Among early vehicles on display is a Lohner-Porsche