Technology is an essential ingredient in the sound of rock and roll, and yet its presence in the Rock Hall of Fame is muted. But a reopened and expanded exhibit building on the original installation features a timeline of audio technology and displays devoted to three individuals—Les Paul, Alan Freed, and Sam Phillips—whose made pioneering contributions to the technology of radio, recording, and performance.

Visitors arriving at shaft twelve of the Ruhr Museum’s Zollverein colliery in Essen are greeted by an industrial Gesamtkunstwerk in steel and brick that is well worth the journey.

The Cité du Train in Mulhouse and the Nederlands Spoorwegmuseum in Utrecht (pictured at left) have dramatically reinvented themselves.

In the mid-nineteenth century, Kavala developed into one of the most important tobacco-processing centers in the Balkans, attracting the commercial interest of the Habsburg Empire, England, France, Egypt, and even the United States.

With a collection dating back to the 1920s, the London Transport Museum can rightly claim to be one of the world’s finest museums of urban transport.

Portuguese museums that date from the turn of the twentieth century differ greatly from those developed in the 1980s and 1990s. For some fifty years prior to the Carnation Revolution of 1974–76, Portugal was ruled by a dictatorship little interested in the preservation of the country’s scientific, technical, and industrial heritage. With two exceptions—the Natural [...]

Since it returned from the Falkland Islands in 1970, the SS Great Britain has been a powerful symbol for the city of Bristol and its maritime history. The ship was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and was launched at Bristol in 1843; she was both the world’s largest ship and the first screw-propelled ocean-going passenger [...]

Robert Moses is the most reviled man in the history of American urban planning. But recently a trio of exhibits in New York City, mounted this past spring in coordination with a symposium at Columbia University and the publication of an extensive catalog of Moses’s public works projects, summed up the extent to which historians’ perspectives on this brilliant and arrogant man have evolved.

In 2006, Tom Tits Experiment, a science center located south of Stockholm in Södertälje, Sweden, received the European Museum Forum’s Micheletti Award, a prize established in 1996 that goes to the year’s most promising technical or industrial museum. How does a hands-on science center capture a prize intended for technology museums?