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This category lists sites which present the history of an era or region through collections in museums composed of historic artifacts located in Europe.

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• United Kingdom

Resources in This Category

• Amsterdam Museum

  http://www.amsterdammuseum.nl/
  The collection consists of paintings, prints, maquettes, objects and archaeological finds. It shows how Amsterdam grew from a small medieval town to a world famous centre.

• Auschwitz - Birkenau Memorial and Museum

  http://www.auschwitz.org/
  World War II extermination camp and memorial to Holocaust victims.

• Berlin Wall Documentation Center

  http://www.berliner-mauer-gedenkstaette.de/
  One component of the memorial site ensemble at Bernauer Strasse, including the Berlin Wall memorial and the Chapel of Reconciliation, designed to preserve the history of the division of Germany.

• Casa Museo di Antonio Gramsci

  http://www.casagramscighilarza.org/
  Museum and Centre of Documentation and Research into Gramscian Works and the Workers Movement. Ghilarza, Oristano, Sardinia, Italy.

• Ebensee Concentration Camp Memorial

  http://www.memorial-ebensee.at/english/index.html
  A satellite camp of Mauthausen on November 18th, 1943 near the village of Ebensee in Upper Austria, one of over 40 outposts of the concentration camp Mauthausen, where prisoners had to work for the German armament industry.

• G.A. Serlachius Museum

  http://www.serlachius.fi/
  Traces the course of human lives in the country from the 19th century to the present day, and includes details of exhibitions, events, guided tours and directions. Located in Finland. [Finnish, Swedish, English].

• Hanns Schell Collection

  http://schell-collection.com/
  The world’s largest museum of locks and keys, coffers, ornamental boxes, chests, safes and ornate cast iron.

• Irish Whiskey Museum

  http://www.irishwhiskeymuseum.ie/
  Based in Dublin, Ireland, offering tours and finishing with whiskey tasting. Provides a blog which includes things to do in the area, and recipes.

• Kazan Kremlin State Museum-Park

  http://real-kremlin.ru/
  The Citadel (Kremlin) in Kazan, Tatarstan. Shows the site from times of antiquity to the present, with information on the architecture and the Hermitage centre.

• Museum in Hohenems

  http://www.museum-stoffels-saege-muehle.at/e-index.html
  A cultural-historical documentation of 2,000 years of mill technology.

• Museum of Air Battle over the Ore Mountains

  http://museum119.cz/default.htm
  Exhibits include artifacts from crashed aircraft, photographs, documents, uniforms, and dioramas. General information schedule, and location.

• Museum of Svätý Anton

  http://www.msa.sk/
  An art, historical and hunting exposition located in a baroque-classicist manor house from the 18th century in the town of Svätý Anton, Slovakia. Includes a guide and lists upcoming events. [Slovak/English]

• National Stutthof Museum

  http://www.stutthof.org/
  World War II concentration camp museum.

• Pengsjö Settlers Museum

  http://www.pengsjomuseum.se/museum/english.htm
  The site describes a Swedish museum of old buildings from the 17th 18th and 19th centuries.

• Silvermine Schwaz

  http://static.synerge.at/cms_bergwerk/english/
  A journey to the Middle Ages and for ninety minutes follow in the miner`s footsteps in the biggest silver mine of the sixteenth century.

• St Agatha's Historical Complex

  http://karsbo.tripod.com/
  Photographs, details, and historical information about the crypt, catacombs, church, and museum.

• State Museum at Majdanek

  http://www.majdanek.eu/
  A German Nazi concentration camp in Lublin was granted its legal status of a central state institution in accordance with the law issued by the Parliament on July 2, 1947.

• The Lviv Historical Museum

  http://lhm.lviv.ua/
  Unique museum collections of Ukraine from ancient to modern times, with approximately 330,000 pieces.

• The Musée du président Jacques Chirac

  http://www.museepresidentjchirac.fr/
  At Sarran, in the heart of the massif des Monédières in Corrèze, houses a collection of gifts given to the President during his official duties.

• The Museum of Viljandi

  http://www.muuseum.viljandimaa.ee/
  Museum of archaeology, cultural heritage and natural history in Estonia. In English, Estonian, and German.

• The National Museum of History

  http://www.historymuseum.org/
  Bulgarian archaeological and historical archive on the Balkans. Virtual tour of museum galleries, fully-searchable exhibits and database.

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