small water-power site at an 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

'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

reclamation projects. The principle was always the same: the area of water would be shut off from the open sea or any other tributaries by dikes. A series of windmills would then be built on the banks and [...] administrations to take action. People now knew that the disease-causing agents were not carried by air, as was long thought to be the case, but by polluted water. In 1852 in London, people began to purify

by the entrepreneur Henry Cort: his workers had to constantly stir ("to puddle") the pig iron on an open hearth, the "puddling furnace", so that unwanted trace elements and slag could be removed and forgeable

celebrates the city’s special history in the reproduction of colour images. The workshop has been open to visitors since 2016. It began in 1796 as the Imagerie Pellerin. This printed woodcuts and coloured [...] tablet computers or by guides can watch techniques in use. Also in the Cité des Images complex is a museum that shows historical and newly created images from a collection of over 100,000 items representing

The Maritime Centre Vellamo at Kotka is Finland’s national maritime museum, and is the responsibility of the National Board of Antiquities. It opened in 2008 and has a spacious boat hall and an auditorium [...] special emphasis on winter navigation in northern latitudes, together with the work of icebreakers. The museum has extensive archives with 2000 historical maps, more than 30,000 photographs and the database of [...] centre holds an annual public event, the Gulf of Finland Village, when visiting research ships are open to the public.

War, the brickworks closed in 1939. It was saved from demolition and conservation began for it to open to the public in 1994. It was further developed in 2020. Visits can be with guides or interactive

including the ERIH Anchor Points "Guido" Coal Mine and Queen Louise Adit in Zabrze, the Brewery Museum in Zywiec and the Historic Silver Mine in Tarnowskie Góry. Other ERIH sites involved are the Zinc [...] Zinc Rolling Mill and the Nikiszowiec Workers' Settlement in Katowice, the Bread and School Museum in Radzionków and the Ignacy Historical Mine in Rybnik. All visitors are invited to join in discovering the [...] its developments, transformations and breakthroughs on the ground, deep underground and up in the air. How does technology harness the four elements? Why does a light bulb burn? Can today's technology

attached to a historicist brick factory. Once again, ERIH sites are involved. The Brown Coal Processing Museum in the „Herrmannschacht“ Briquette Factory , for example, will be bringing the lignite industry to [...] and processing of bulk material into solid briquettes are all part of the exciting guided tour. The Museum of Printing Arts , on the other hand, revives several centuries of printing and media history with [...] and tank depot of the largest cell bank in German-speaking Europe: it's here that modern factories open their doors for a close-up look behind the scenes. Since Leipzig's industrial heritage is part of

Near the village of Svatý Jan pod Skalou, the Solvay Quarries open-air museum (skansen) is concerned with limestone quarrying and transport. The quarry started in 1916 to provide limestone to a factory [...] factory that produced soda ash with the Solvay method. Stone was worked by compressed-air tools then crushed and sorted in a mill. Transport was by a narrow-gauge railway and a 1.5-km aerial cableway. Later [...] closed in 1963. A preservation group began caring for the site in 1993. The quarry is a nature reserve open to visitors to walk around on marked trails with interpretation panels. Guided tours take visitors

and restoration workshops are open to visitors. Hangers contain many exhibits that show the evolution of aircraft through the first half of the 20th century. The museum’s Blériot XI biplane from 1909 is [...] pilot, racing driver and mechanic. He rescued many old aircraft and vehicles. He died in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, but his mother Dorothy Shuttleworth continued to develop the collection

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.

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

the National Railway Museum and can be heard online at "Railwaystories". The Pegler family home the mid-eighteenth century Arncott House at Retford has housed the Bassetlaw Museum since 1986. [...] used a light aircraft to chase express trains along the East Coast Main Line. He joined the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, although ill health prevented him from serving as a pilot. Subsequently [...] railways and flying extended into promoting excursions for his workpeople at Retford to the Farnborough Air Show in Surrey in 1954 and 1955, hauled by historic locomotives, and in 1958 by a new main line diesel

organised in Wiesmoor. It was one of the factors, with the building of baths, a health centre and an open-air theatre, that made the area attractive to holiday makers, and tourism is now one of its principal [...] replaced by a gas turbine power station which itself was demolished in 1995. The Peat and Colony Museum, created gradually since 1988, contains many buildings that show the new colonisation of the moorland

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

Baltic port of Gdynia. The Open-Air Museum of Locomotives was created in 1993 by the State Railways with the help of local employees. In 2015 it became a branch of the Museum of the History of the City [...] 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 many exhibits on loan

objects may be exhibited in a prominently display case while larger objects may be located in the open air. Information boards will explain the story behind the object(s) and the European linkage that is [...] linkage– for example, technology of the German company Siemens in the converter factory of the Streetcar Museum in Porto. All participants in “Linking Europe” can also be viewed in our virtual exhibition. If you

here in 1967 but the initiative to create a museum began in 1987. This opened as the naval airship museum in 1991. Cooperation with the German Maritime Museum at Bremerhaven allowed it to expand its remit [...] remit to other naval aircraft as Aeronauticum in 1997. The collection includes 17 aircraft in the open air, including a Breguet surveillance aircraft, a VFW 614 and two Tornado fighter planes. Exhibitions [...] Aeronauticum is the German museum of airships and naval aviation, situated near the North Sea port of Cuxhaven. It is located on an airfield that was created as a base for airships by the German navy at

Visitors see exhibits largely in the condition in which they were rescued. Around the museum is the open-air village museum, which preserves over 20 buildings, among them a forge house of the 1930s, a carpenter’s [...] Hungary and Romania. This small railway museum among the ridges of the Carpathian mountains aims to save surviving elements of the Transcarpathia railway heritage. The museum consists of a single train with an