Where's what:
| What
| Where
| last visited
| highlight
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| Tokomaru Steam Engine Museum
| Tokomaru, NZ, approx. 50km south of Palmerston North) ,
see www.tokomarusteam.com
| March 2001
| Impressive private collection of steam engines in operating condition.
Enquire about times where they run them on oil fired boilers.
Phone: 063-298-867
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| Collins Brothers Sawmillers Ltd
| Kerikeri, NZ, Inlet Road, phone +64-9-407-9707, colbros@xtra.co.nz
| March 2001
| commercial sawmill powered by steam, energy-wise self sustained, excellent tours
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| Powerhouse Museum
| Sydney, Oz
| Jan 97
| Steam driven engines, including merry-go-round featuring compressor driven organ (deafening),
'smell test' to show how smelling works (the only one I've seen so far),
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| MOTAT (Museum of Transport and Technology)
| Auckland, NZ
| March 2001
| Early tramway running on 3km track, steam operated engines, aeroplane hangar exhibition (e.g. refurbished flying boat),
early settler cottage, agriculture machinery
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| Umekoji Steam Locomotive Museum
| Kyoto, Japan
| 15.9.99
| 18 Japanese steam locomotives, 6 in running condition, round house, turn table, oldest wooden railway
station in Japan (1904),
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| Computer Museum
| Boston, USA
| Sep 89
| history of computers, with the old mega boxes still alive. Update: They shut down and merged to CHM (see below)
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| Computer History Museum
| Mountain View, CA, USA
| Nov 2008
| history of computers, *lots* of hardware, see www.computerhistory.org
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| Exploratorium
| San Francisco, USA
| May 95
| Disney Land meets the sciences, nicely done
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| Science Museum
| London, UK
| Sep 90
| history of steam engines, many others
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| Deutsches Museum
| München, BRD
| 91
| Pioneering (IMHO) push-and-look demonstrations of all technical aspects of the last centuries.
Two weeks are about the minimum time for a good look. Goody: Demonstrations of basic physical law
for pupils and phd's alike.
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