On Friday, October 3, the National Technical Museum opened its flagship exhibition of 2025.
Titled “What Made The Railways, What the Railways Made,” the exhibition marks the culmination of the NTM’s project “Year of European Railways 1825–2025.”
Two hundred years ago, the story of modern rail transport began. The railway became one of the key driving forces behind the transformation of the world — connecting countries and continents, changing the way people travel, transport goods, and live their everyday lives. The exhibition takes visitors on a journey through the origins of the railway, its technical innovations, and its profound impact on society.
The exhibition presents, in an original and engaging way, the fundamental phenomena that gave rise to and fueled the expansion of railway transport — within historical, technical, and cultural contexts. It links the development of the railway with its social consequences, combining authentic exhibits, interactive elements, and artworks to illustrate the beginnings of this essential force of modernization that shaped Europe and the wider world.
Visitors will encounter the earliest days of rail transport, see a nearly two-hundred-year-old British-made steam engine, view original artifacts from the first railways in our region, and even take on the role of a station dispatcher using a fully interactive exhibit featuring an authentic interlocking device from a railway station.
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