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Current events

Tall Ships Photography Exhibition | Gloucester, National Waterways Museum and Gloucester Dock
Armand Heins, etser, lithograaf en drukker. De technische wereld van e | Gent, Museum of Industrial Archaeology and Textile
HORCH - EIN AUDI! | Zwickau, August Horch Museum
Dein Gehirn. denken.fühlen.handeln. | Völklingen, World Heritage Site Voelklingen Iron Works
Viel Stoff. Textile Muster und Musterbücher 1900 bis 2000 | Dortmund, LWL Industrial Museum Zollern II/IV Colliery
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Latest News:

20.01.10

New Regional Route in Poland connected to ERIH network

The Silesian Voivodeship is another address on the European Route of Industrial Heritage.


11.01.10

European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010 now open!

The Ruhr is the European Capital of Culture 2010.


10.11.09

Reusing Industrial Heritage TICCIH Conference - Call for Papers open until 16th November

TICCIH is having it´s first joint meeting with ICOHTEC (The International Committee for the History...


The Ruhrgebiet Regional Route

Heavy industry means heavy labour. Nowhere in Europe is this so clear as in the Ruhrgebiet. The region is full of the history of coal, steel and people, exemplary pioneering achievements and countless victims. A history in which entrepreneurial audacity simultaneously resulted in appalling suffering and a proud sense of community, and the urban population was welded together by the common fate of poor living conditions, poisonous gases and pulmonary diseases. Now the clouds of smoke from factory chimneys have for the most part disappeared, leaving more industrial monuments in their wake than anywhere else in Europe.
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Country   City   Site   Theme
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  Bochum     German Mining Museum   Mining
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  Bochum     Railway Museum Bochum-Dahlhausen   Transport and Communication
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  Bochum     Hall of the Century Bochum   Iron and SteelHousing and ArchitectureService and Leisure Industry
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  Dortmund     LWL Industrial Museum Zollern II/IV Colliery   MiningHousing and Architecture
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  Dortmund     DASA - German Occupational Safety and Health Exhibition   Iron and SteelTextilesProduction and ManufacturingApplication of Power
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  Dortmund     Hansa Coking Plant   MiningApplication of Power
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  Duisburg     North Duisburg Landscape Park   Iron and SteelLandscapes
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  Duisburg     German Inland Waterways Museum   Transport and Communication
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  Duisburg     Inner Harbour   Production and Manufacturing
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  Essen     World Heritage Site Zollverein   MiningHousing and Architecture
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  Essen     Villa Hügel   Housing and Architecture
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  Gelsenkirchen     Nordstern Park   MiningHousing and Architecture
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  Hagen     Hohenhof   Housing and Architecture
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  Hagen     LWL Open-Air Museum   Iron and SteelTextilesProduction and Manufacturing
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  Hamm     Maximilian Park   Mining
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  Hattingen     LWL Industrial Museum Henrichshütte Steelworks   Iron and Steel
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  Marl     Chemical Industry Estate   Production and Manufacturing
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  Mülheim an der Ruhr     Aquarius Water Museum   Water
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  Oberhausen     Gasometer   Iron and SteelApplication of Power
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  Oberhausen     Rhineland Industrial Museum Altenberg Tin-works   Iron and Steel
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  Recklinghausen     Electricity Museum   Application of Power
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  Unna     Linden Brewery   Production and Manufacturing
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  Waltrop     LWL Industrial Museum Old Henrichenburg Shiplift   Transport and Communication
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  Witten     LWL Industrial Museum Nightingale Colliery and the Mutten Valley   MiningProduction and Manufacturing