You love that exhilarating live steam atmosphere, the pleasure of stopping to fill up with coal and water and just being absorbed into the world of steam engines. With technology at your fingertips - tangible, comprehensible, your own construction.

Some like to reproduce a miniature version of a real steam locomotive, others are proud of their steam-driven static engines. From the simplest to the most complex mechanism they all entail pistons, wheels and rods interacting to create, as if by magic, precise movements that culminate in a sole purpose: locomotion. When a multitude of weird and wonderful machines hiss, spit and steam, at the same time fulfilling mostly useful tasks - that is the great era of the steam engine. And today this method of power generation is more fascinating than ever. It is the incredible combination of a cacophony of unusual sounds, all produced by steam, and the dominant smell of burning coal in the air, that transports us in the wink of an eye to the heyday of steam engines.

Power engines, steam turbines, working engines, transport vehicles and agricultural machines were driven by steam for over 200 years, and today we can re-discover them in countless models in full working mode - in a world full of vibrant perception and fundamental technology.