Museum Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/museum/ Mechanically-minded travel Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:49:12 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 HMS Victory’s remaining masts are coming down https://mechtraveller.com/2026/04/hms-victorys-remaining-masts-are-coming-down/ https://mechtraveller.com/2026/04/hms-victorys-remaining-masts-are-coming-down/#respond Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:38:43 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=13007 HMS Victory’s team of conservators, shipwrights and riggers have started taking down her remaining masts as part of The Big Repair – the ten-year, £42m project to conserve Nelson’s flagship for future generations. As Stuart Sheldon, Lead Rigger at the National Museum of the Royal Navy, puts it: “HMS Victory matters to people in a […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2026/04/hms-victorys-remaining-masts-are-coming-down/feed/ 0 The London Museum – Docklands https://mechtraveller.com/2026/04/the-london-museum-docklands/ https://mechtraveller.com/2026/04/the-london-museum-docklands/#respond Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:33:33 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=12973 The London Museum Docklands is a ‘must-see’ museum that tells the history of the River Thames and the growth of London’s huge port system from the first Roman settlements to the modern-day regeneration of the Canary Wharf area. It is housed, appropriately, right at the heart of docklands in the ‘No. 1 Warehouse’ at West […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2026/04/the-london-museum-docklands/feed/ 0 National Motor Museum Exhibition Now Open https://mechtraveller.com/2026/03/national-motor-museum-exhibition-now-open/ https://mechtraveller.com/2026/03/national-motor-museum-exhibition-now-open/#respond Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:46:11 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=12781 The National Motor Museum has opened its new exhibition gallery, Driven: Britain’s Motoring Story. The exhibition focuses on how Britain has changed over the decades, delving into the social and cultural impact of motoring. It features stories, artefacts and images  to surprise, engage and inspire visitors, plus of course, vehicles from five eras of UK […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2026/03/national-motor-museum-exhibition-now-open/feed/ 0 Škoda Museum opens Concept Car Gallery https://mechtraveller.com/2026/03/skoda-museum-opens-concept-car-gallery/ https://mechtraveller.com/2026/03/skoda-museum-opens-concept-car-gallery/#respond Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:45:44 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=12752 The Škoda Museum in Mladá Boleslav, Czechia, has opened a new gallery in the former car plant buildings, featuring 31 ‘concept cars’, design studies and prototypes from the late 1950s to the present day. The museum, which opened in 1995 in the original factory building and underwent a complete refurbishment in 2012, is now expanding […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2026/03/skoda-museum-opens-concept-car-gallery/feed/ 0 Dynamo Museum Dunkirk, revisited https://mechtraveller.com/2026/02/dynamo-museum-dunkirk-revisited/ https://mechtraveller.com/2026/02/dynamo-museum-dunkirk-revisited/#respond Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:11:57 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=12683 Operation Dynamo was the name given to the hurried extraction of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), plus allies (mostly French), from the beach at Dunkirk (Dunkerque) in May/June 1940. The Musée Dunkerque 1940 is located in Bastion 32, the headquarters for the French and Allied forces during the Battle of Dunkirk and Operation Dynamo. This […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2026/02/dynamo-museum-dunkirk-revisited/feed/ 0 200 Years of Railway Heritage celebrated at the Vienna Museum of Science and Technology https://mechtraveller.com/2025/12/200-years-of-railway-heritage-celebrated-at-the-vienna-museum-of-science-and-technology/ https://mechtraveller.com/2025/12/200-years-of-railway-heritage-celebrated-at-the-vienna-museum-of-science-and-technology/#respond Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:21:20 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=12541 The Museum of Science and Technology in Vienna (Technisches Museum Wien) is, like us in the UK, celebrating 200 years of technical and social advances brought about by the railway. Their temporary exhibition Under the Spell of the Railway – 200 Years of Rail Transport, opened in October and uses impressive models, historical objects, and […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2025/12/200-years-of-railway-heritage-celebrated-at-the-vienna-museum-of-science-and-technology/feed/ 0 The Airborne Museum, Sainte-Mère-Église – Updated https://mechtraveller.com/2025/10/the-airborne-museum-sainte-mere-eglise-updated/ https://mechtraveller.com/2025/10/the-airborne-museum-sainte-mere-eglise-updated/#comments Sun, 26 Oct 2025 14:46:59 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=12357 The Airborne Museum at Sainte-Mère-Église is considered a ‘must see’ for those touring Normandy, and it’s usually one of the first or last stops on a tour of the Normandy beaches because it’s out there on the western flank, which is exactly why the US airborne forces set out to capture it on the night […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2025/10/the-airborne-museum-sainte-mere-eglise-updated/feed/ 2 Laffly V15 https://mechtraveller.com/2025/09/laffly-v15/ https://mechtraveller.com/2025/09/laffly-v15/#respond Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:28:17 +0000 http://mechtraveller.com/?p=1655 I love this quirky little French 6-wheeler from 1939. It’s a Laffly V15T with 4-wheel drive, plus an extra two wheels to get it over lumps & bumps! It had a top speed of 58 kph and was used primary by the French cavalry as an artillery tractor to tow their 25mm anti tank gun. […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2025/09/laffly-v15/feed/ 0 Marmon Herrington Mk4 SARC https://mechtraveller.com/2025/09/marmon-herrington-mk4-sarc/ https://mechtraveller.com/2025/09/marmon-herrington-mk4-sarc/#respond Fri, 26 Sep 2025 13:03:24 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=12078 The Marmon Herrington Mk4 SARC (South African Reconnaissance Car) was introduced to Allied forces in 1943 after wheeled vehicles had proved very useful in the first engagements with the Afrika Korps. The SARC was a speedy (85 km/h, 53 mph) reconnaissance vehicle, lightly armoured (12mm – 30mm) and armed with a 2-pounder (40mm) canon plus […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2025/09/marmon-herrington-mk4-sarc/feed/ 0 There’s a new aviation museum coming to El Reno, Oklahoma https://mechtraveller.com/2025/09/theres-a-new-aviation-museum-coming-to-el-reno-oklahoma/ https://mechtraveller.com/2025/09/theres-a-new-aviation-museum-coming-to-el-reno-oklahoma/#respond Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:00:08 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=12073 The Caldwell Collection at Mustang Field, will be opening to the public in October at the El Reno Regional Airport just west of Oklahoma City. The museum will have approximately two dozen historic aircraft on display from the pioneering years of aviation in the 1920s & 30s. Oklahoma entrepreneur, Tony Caldwell, started flying quite late […]

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