The ‘Suraxani’ or ‘Surakhani’ is a former oil tanker that contains a ship museum. It is moored on the Caspian Sea alongside the Baku Boulevard in the Sabayil area in the south-east of the city of Baku [...] ‘Suraxani’ began work in 1957 and had a deadweight of 4,696 tons. It was in use until 2017 and the museum opened in 2021. Interactive displays, virtual reality and models relate the histories of global shipping

were many inter-connected workings. The mine of ‘Lautenthal’s Luck’ worked until 1931 and became a museum in the 1970s. The workings were connected to the Tiefen Sachsen drainage tunnel, which was dug around

exhibitions on the theme of peasant culture were arranged in the early twentieth century, and the present museum dates its origins from 1936 when it was established by Dimitrie Gusti (1880-1955), an academic s [...] Berlin and Leipzig, and pioneered the intensive study of peasant life and village communities. The museum now occupies a site of 14 ha in Herastrau Park and comprises some 360 structures, with collections [...] wares, and mining plant from the Carpathians including crushing mills and ore-washing equipment. The museum is the location for numerous theatrical productions and displays of folk dancing.

requests in a museum? In Żywiec, however, everything is a bit different. One of the most favourite traditional beers in Poland is brewed in this small pretty town, and the local Brewery Museum will tell you [...] On your visit you will be expressly requested to do things which are mostly strictly forbidden in museums. Visitors are asked to place their hands on straining vats, wooden barrels and many other objects

The open-air museum of the Żnin narrow-gauge railway has been operating since 1971. The railway was originally 80-km long, opened in 1894. Around 12km is still in operation. It transported goods to the [...] Ostrowce and carried passengers. A 600-mm gauge was used owing to the difficult lakeside terrain. The museum is in beautiful countryside between lakes, half way from the village of Wenecja to the village of

take trains from Čierny Balog for long and short journeys. At the Čierny Balog station is a small museum of forest railways with a working model that children can operate, equipment and photographs. Outside

history of production is placed in its local and international economic and cultural context. The museum offers guided tours and workshops where visitors can learn about colours and paints. Other walks

1980s as the nationalized Metal Works of Ózd it employed 14,000 people. It closed in the 1990s. The museum has developed since 1971 in the magnificent factory school of 1895. Much of it is devoted to industrial [...] even the whole ironworks. Interactive exhibits show technological principles. Other parts of the museum cover local history and culture, crafts, the history of the school and other subjects. Outside are

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

Lamadeleine near Belfort in France-Comté within the Ballon des Vosges Regional Natural Park. The museum commemorate the Petitjean family, four generations of whom worked as artisan blacksmiths in the village [...] Like craftsmen in many parts of Europe they combined farming with working iron. Visitors to the museum see first a film entitled Camille le Forgeron (Camille the blacksmith) which shows the techniques [...] Petitjean family made edge tools as well as shoeing horses and repairing agricultural implements. The museum holds collections of tools, especially hammers, and of anvils of different sizes for various purposes

industries that the population of Mesnay between the 1790s and the 1860s never fell below 1,000. The museum describes the manufacture of cardboard and its application to the production of cartons. It is housed [...] and the last mill making cardboard closed in 2001. There is also an exhibition about bees in the museum building, which is a popular venue for cultural events.

The Çamlik Outdoor Railway Museum is located 12 km from Selçuk near Ephesus, on the oldest main line in Turkey, built in 1866. The tracks in the area were re-aligned from 1991 which provided an opportunity [...] opportunity for the creation of a museum in a garden setting which opened in 1997. More than 30 steam locomotives are displayed, including examples built by Robert Stephenson & Co, Beyer Peacock and North British

in traditional style with roofs to protect the platforms from snow. In the upper station a small museum which opened in 2013 traces Åre’s evolution from farming village to tourist destination. A second

employed 6,000 people by 1895. The foundry closed in 1964. The casting hall occupied by the museum. The museum illustrates the life of Abraham Ganz, the history of the building, the role of foundries in [...] The foundry museum occupies the buildings of the engineering work established by the Swiss ironfounder Abraham Ganz (1815-1867) who moved to Budapest in 1841 and opened his own works in 1844, specialising [...] then engaged largely in making turbines and other electrical equipment. Its products can be seen in museums of technology in many European cities.

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

looms, creative fashion laboratory, modern high-tech: tim, the young Augsburg Textile and Industrial Museum, which opened in January 2010, connects the rapid development of the local textile industry with [...] other innovative developments illustrate an exciting high-tech sector. Children follow their own museum path on which they weave, knit or print. Special exhibitions, fashion shows, lectures and concerts

intact appearance to its meticulous restoration. Today it houses the santral istanbul Museum of Energy. The museum's basement features interactive exhibits offering fun-meets-science experiments that focus

PhanTechnikum began as the state technical museum of the German Democratic Republic in 1961. It reopened on a new site in 2012. Its interactive exhibitions aim to inspire amazement and discovery about

created the Ijsselmeer, in 1932. It is linked by a road across the dyke to Lelystad in Flevoland. The museum follows the tradition established at Skansen by Artur Hazelius (1833-1901), portraying through artefacts [...] the interface between land and sea around the shores of the Zuyder Zee before its enclosure. The museum was founded in 1948, but its open air section was only opened to the public, after many years of [...] windmill. The superbly-restored buildings include a toy shop and a tiny grocery shop. The symbol of the museum is a trio of limekilns on a peninsula extending into the Ijsselmeer which serve as a landmark for

one of the worst mining accidents in the country. Turkey's first mining museum was opened in Zonguldak in 2016. In the 3-storey museum building as well as on the outdoor area, it presents the history of black [...] history of mining. The museum's exhibits include tools, models of mines, documents and wall paintings, miners' materials and clothing, and much more. Integrated into the museum area and accessible to visitors