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Norwood Park Historical Society Museum: Chicago: Cook: Chicago area: Local history: Period displays about Norwood Park community, located in the Noble-Seymour-Crippen House: Norsk Museum: Norway: LaSalle: Northern Illinois: Ethnic: Norwegian culture and arts of area settlers: website: North Central College Galleries: Naperville: DuPage: Chicago ...
The Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), also known as The Field Museum, is a natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest such museums in the world. [4] The museum is popular for the size and quality of its educational and scientific programs, [5] [6] and its extensive scientific specimen and artifact collections. [7]
In 1993, the old cobalt mines opened as a tourist attraction, and the entire area now serves as a large open-air museum. [4] [5] Since the 1990s Blaafarveværket has been the largest and best preserved traditional mining museum in Europe, and one of Norway's most visited attractions. [1]
This list of mines in Norway is subsidiary to the list of mines article and lists working, defunct and future mines in the country and is organised by the primary mineral output. For practical purposes stone, marble and other quarries may be included in this list.
The Alten Copper Mines was Norway's largest iron and copper works in 1840 by number of employees. At the same time, Kåfjord was the largest settlement in Finnmark. In the 1835 census, Kåfjord had a population of 655, or 388 Norwegians (including Swedes), 253 women, 12 Englishmen, and two Germans.
Norge Mining said up to 70 billion tonnes of the non-renewable resource may have been uncovered in south-western Norway, alongside deposits of other strategic minerals like titanium and vanadium.
25 Norway. 26 Pakistan. 27 Poland. ... Biggest mining museum in Czech Republic, incl. 3 show adits ... Stone coal, with 300 m historical underground galleries
The museum is situated one kilometre from the harbour and contains models of significant bridges and landing stages. The museum also possesses an archive of 200,000 historic photographs. The museum tells the stories of the building of the Ofoten Railway, Swedish mining company LKAB, development of the ice-free harbour of Narvik and the rapid ...