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mines, but due to problems with water drainage, mining ceased in 1898. The museum opened in 1994 in the Piesberg colliery's listed open-cast facilities. Its interactive permanent exhibition focuses on the interplay [...] The MIK Osnabrück Museum of Industrial Culture is located on the Piesberg in the UNESCO Nature and Geopark TERRA.vita. Sandstone and coal have been quarried on the Piesberg since early modern times. A

sometimes even complete prefabricated houses and metal churches. The Maritime Museum throws open the gateway to the past. The museum is closed for renovation work until 2028 (estimated). [...] book of a Liverpool slave-trader: these are just two of the treasures to be found in the Maritime Museum. Here within the historic walls of the Albert Dock you can chart the history of one of the world’s

Dimitsana is a village some 30 km north-west of Tripolis in the Central Peloponnese. The museum, a site of the Museum Network of the Cultural Foundation of the Piraeus Bank Group (PIOP), is close to a celebrated

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 [...] into the sidelines, closed down in 1864 and has remained unaltered ever since. Since 1950 it has been open to the general public as an authentic legacy of the early industrial era.

climbing the 22-metre open staircase. From up there, the panoramic view reveals a landscape where former open-cast lignite mines have been transformed into attractive lakes. In the museum itself, visitors breathe

coal seams and the vents of industrialization turned this area black. All the buildings of the open-air museum are original and have been moved here to save them from development. Costumed staff bring the [...] have largely disappeared. Only the award-winning Black Country Living Museum is still deeply rooted in Victorian times. The Museum effortlessly transports visitors to the late 18th and early 19th century

one 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 [...] Open drawers, cables and tools, an ashtray, next to it a coffee 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

building was fully ready as a museum in 2000. The total floor area of the museum centre is approximately 14,000 m2, half of which is devoted to exhibition facilities and premises open to the public. Vapriikki [...] Vapriikki is a versatile museum centre located by the Tammerkoski river, where visitors can explore over ten exhibitions on history, natural sciences and technology all at once. Together with other operators [...] the 1990s. The Swedish word ‘fabrik’ became the Finnish ‘vapriikki’ in the last century, and the museum centre was named Vapriikki to emphasise the significance of its location in Finnish industrial history

'luxury liners of the air', 'giants of the skies': ever since the invention of airships they have sparked people's imagination. People are also the main focus of the Zeppelin Museum at Friedrichshafen. Who [...] 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

1968. In the following decades local community initiatives led to the designation of a 7 ha open air museum, which includes the ‘big furnace’ with its Cowper stoves, a building housing a blowing engine [...] which was built in the classical style. Since 2000 this has been a municipal museum, the Jana Pazdura Nature and Technological Museum, that takes its name from the pioneer of Industrial Archaeology in Poland [...] from the remains of the ironworks the museum also displays the history of the Star Truck Co that has produced heavy motor vehicles in Starachowice since 1948. The museum also interprets the ecology of the

mechanism pushes a little wooden bird into position and simultaneously raises two small bellows that emit air through two lip pipes: "Cuckoo!" For 300 years the people in the German Black Forest delivered handmade [...] combines such different attractions as the "watchmaker´s cottage" in Vöhrenbach, with the Clock Industry Museum in Schwenningen, whose many fully-working machines tell visitors about everyday life in the factory [...] And on your way, if you want, you can watch cuckoo-clock makers at work. Finally the German Clock Museum in Furtwangen offers visitors a comprehensive overall view of clock making in the region. Its 15

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 [...] century from Hyrynsalmi in the Kainuu region shows how farmhouses in forest areas traditionally kept open house for many itinerant workers, loggers, reindeer herders, hunters and migrant farm labourers.

with an annual output of 31 million tonnes. The museum is based at a mine that began production in 1937. Shale from shallower deposits was extracted by open-cast working. Visitors are able to go 1 km underground [...] was burned. The museum has a collection of oil paintings of the mines, and a display of equipment includes Esku, the 50-ton-heavy bucket of a very large mechanical excavator used in open-cast workings.

Lothian Coal Co, which in the same year began to sink the Lady Victoria pit, now the Scottish Mining Museum. The colliery came to employ 1200 men and had a 91 year working life. The company controlled 5700 [...] railway was opened in 1889. He encouraged the use of new technology in mines, particularly of compressed air and electricity. He is buried in the cemetery at Cardiff and commemorated by a statue erected in 1906

Artur Hazelius founded the open air museum called Skansen at Stockholm, which has given its name to collections of buildings that have been scientifically removed from their original sites in many European [...] native country during which he developed a lively interest in folk lore. In 1872 he established a museum for Swedish ethnography, which has evolved into the present-day Nordiska Museet. After seeing the [...] by King Oskar II , he began to acquire buildings as well as artefacts, and in 1891 established a museum on Djurgarden, an island in Stockholm harbour that came to be called Skansen (i.e. fortifications)

The Finnish Museum of Car and Road Mobilia is the national museum responsible for its special field, roads and road traffic. The museum is located by Lake Längelmävesi in Kangasala, about half an hour's [...] exhibitions include a permanent exhibition on the construction and use of Finnish roads, the Rally Museum, an open-air exhibition on the use of emergency labour in road construction, an annual main exhibition on [...] France in 1898, a Mercedes-Benz Waxemberger and many cars made in the Soviet bloc before 1990. The museum has strong links with motorsport and enthusiasts who collect particular marques, and has an ambitious

worn by men in this part of Albania. The fortress houses a museum in memory of Skanderberg. The site is also home to the National Ethnographic Museum, founded in 1989. It is housed in the villa built by Ismail [...] The restored bazaar from around 1800, when Krujë was part of the Ottoman Empire, is like a living museum where a wide range of craftsmen display their skills. You can see basket weavers, shoemakers, si [...] Toptani in 1764. The multi-storey house is built into a hill, with walls up to 80 cm thick and an open staircase. The exhibition in the 15 rooms is dedicated to regional crafts, some of which are still

due to last several 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

a tour of open air museums in Scandinavia and he took inspiration that lasted for the rest of his life from Skansen and other museums that he saw. In 1958 he became curator of the Bowes Museum at Barnard [...] determined to follow a career in museums. He studied science at the University of Sheffield, after which he was employed for a time in a coke works before obtaining a job at the museum at Wakefield. In 1952 he [...] available at Beamish Hall in Co Durham, and Frank Atkinson was appointed to direct the museum in 1970. The museum opened the following year and its successes in the years that followed, when it was subject