There was a splendid museum on the history of gas in Leuven, but recently 
the owner (Electrabel - the company who has almost the monopoly on gas and 
electricity production in Belgium) decided to close it. Objects seem to 
have gone to different other museums, but rumours tell that part of the 
collection has been dispersed - including the objects that weren't kept in 
the museum but in their storage. There are also rumours that parts of this 
collection was sold to foreign collectors or museums.
The "Vlaamse Vereniging voor Industriële Archeologie" (VVIA - Flemish 
Association for Industrial Archaeology) is actually trying to find out what 
really did happen with the collection, and why this decision was taken.
A report will be placed as soon as possible on the website of the Flemish 
Association for Industrial Archaeology.
Also both electricity collections (at Zwevegem and at Langerbrugge) seem to 
be endangered. The buildings recently have been listed as historic 
monuments - which made Electrabel so furious that they closed them to the 
public and that they now start to dismantle their 'museum' . More details 
will be announced soon via the and a call for support will be launched soon 
via the VVIA website.
I will post this information evenso to Museum-L

The website of the Flemish Association for Industrial Archaeology is at:
http://www.conservare.be/vvia/ - They have a complete list of all Flemish 
industrial and technical museums on their website.
One can e-mail them at : mailto:[log in to unmask]

Greetings

Adriaan Linters



At 14:53 18/05/00 +0900, you wrote:
>Does someone have his/her favorite museum,
>1.which has gas-related exhibition(a kind of gas that is supplied by gas
>companies)?
>
>2.which is known by its excelent environmental education?
>
>If you would kindly give me museum's home page address in addition to the
>museum's information, I would very much appreciate it.
>
>Thank you very much in advance!
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Sae Minohara
>
>Coporate Planning Department
>C/O Shimizu Corporation
>Seavans South, 1-2-3 Shibaura,
>Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8007
>Japan
>
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