MEMBERS OF ERIH ASSOCIATION

Please find below the current list of ERIH members.
You can either see all members in Europe or select the members by individual countries. 

The Mutiloa mining reserve extended its transport and storage facilities to the municipality of Ormaiztegi, where it was linked to the Madrid-Irún railway line, looking for profitability in European markets. This rich iron ore supplied the English and French foundries such as Les Forges del Adour de ...
more

Mutiloa Mines and Ormaiztegi’s Viaduct
Muxika Egurastokia
20212 Ormaiztegi, Spain

Palafrugell | Spain
The change from an agrarian to an industrial society and, more recently, into a services one, that have undergone those outstanding populations that were developing the cork- stoppers industry, recognizes as lawful the effort of trying to restore the conscience of a characteristic culture. On this ...
more

Cork Museum
Museu del Suro
Placeta del Museu del Suro
17200 Palafrugell, Spain

Pasai San Pedro | Spain
Albaola the Maritime Heritage Factory is a shipyard-museum dedicated to the promotion and development of Basque maritime heritage. It focuses particularly on the construction of historic boats and ships and retaining the traditional skills involved in and around shipbuilding, such as ropemaking, ...
more

Albaola the Maritime Heritage Factory
Ondartxo pasealekua 1
20110 Pasai San Pedro, Spain

MATER is the last big Basque wooden tuna ship. After it stopped fishiing, it was saved from being broken up by Itsas Gela, in 2003. Nowadays, MATER is docked at the port of Pasaia, and has become a true living piece of maritime heritage. This peculiar EcoActive ship has two objectives: informing ...
more

'Mater' Ecoactive Museum Tuna Boat
MATER Barco Museo Ecoactivo
Arraunlari kalea z/g
20110 Pasaia, Spain

Portugalete | Spain
Portugalete is a municipality on the south–west bank of the River Nervión downstream from Bilbao, where the river is best known as the Ria de Bilbao. The industrial museum RIALIA (which takes its name from the river) occupies a building begun in 1993 which was intended for various projects that did ...
more

RIALIA: Museum of Industry
RIALIA: Museo de la Industria
Paseo de la Canilla
48920 Portugalete, Spain

Puerto de Sagunto | Spain
Puerto de Sagunto was a factory town in the early years of the 20th century. Its origins date back to 1900, when the Basque businessmen Ramón de la Sota and Eduardo Aznar founded the Compañía Minera de Sierra Menera. A 204 km railway line was built to link the mines of Ojos Negros, Teruel, with the ...
more

Puerto de Sagunto
Address Horno Alto nº2: Avenida Altos Hornos 46520 Puerto de Sagunto
Contact: FCV Patrimonio Industrial Puerto Sagunto Avenida 9 de Octubre, nº7
46520 Puerto de Sagunto, Spain

Ripoll | Spain
This is the only early iron forge that survives in Catalunya. It is on the road beside the River Freser in the town of Ripoll, on the ground floor of a three-storey block with people living above it. From the seventeenth century it produced bar iron and artefacts of wrought iron such as nails and ...
more

Palau Forge in Ripoll
Farga Palau de Ripoll
Passeig de la Farga Catalana 14-16
17500 Ripoll, Spain

San Esteban de Pravia | Spain
San Esteban de Pravia, an old fishing village, now a marina, is an enclave in which its industrial past is still present. On the shores of the Cantabrian Sea, at the mouth of the “Nalón” River which separates the village of San Juan de la Arena from San Esteban de Pravia, is a location that still ...
more

San Esteban de Pravia Coal Port
Paseo del muelle
33130 San Esteban de Pravia, Spain

San Salvador | Spain
The museum remembers the social and regional transformation that meant the settlement of a French company in this agricultural and livestock mountain area. From their industrial activity, it is interesting to visit the preserved old steel-making ovens as well as the galleries connected to the ...
more

Ethnographic Museum of Quiros
Museo Ethnográfico de Quirós
Carretera General AS 229 - P.K. 8,4
33117 San Salvador, Spain

Sant Corneli | Spain
Around the upper reaches of the Llobregat river there are many mines which have riddled the mountains with their galleries. The mines of Figols and the surrounding area were for long the source of the coal that moved the steam engines that drove Catalan industry.  The mining museum reveals 150 ...
more

Cercs Mining Museum
Museu de les Mines de Cercs
Plaça Sant Romà
08698 Sant Corneli, Spain

Santa Cruz de Mieres | Spain
Bustiello is one of the many mining villages in the province of Asturias, and is situated near Mieres, south of Oviedo, not far from Spain’s northern coast. It is a good example of industrial paternalism. The village was built between 1890 and 1925 by the mining company Sociedad Huellera Española on ...
more

Bustiello Mining Village Information Centre
Centro de Interpretación del Poblado Minero de Bustiello
Bustiello
33612 Santa Cruz de Mieres, Spain

Santandrés | Spain
The region of the Turón Valley was one of the most important coal mining areas in northern Spain. Numerous abandoned mines still tell of the former importance of this area and the old machinery and facilities form a kind of open-air museum. The best way to understand the mining landscape is to join ...
more

Turón Valley
Pozu Espinos
Valle de Turón Caserio Preximir 4
33610 Santandrés, Spain

The Fisherman’s Guild has been traditionally used for all the activities related to the sea and the people who worked there. The building was built in 1916 and rebuilt in 2012, when the maritime museum Santurtzi Itsasoa Museoa opened its doors in the old basement that was once used as a warehouse.  ...
more

Museum of the Sea | 'Agurtza' Fishing Boat
Santurtzi Itsasoa Museoa
Puerto Pesquero 20
48980 Santurtzi, Spain

Segovia | Spain
The visit to Real Casa de Moneda invites you to learn the thrilling history of this building built by Felipe II. You will learn about the minting processes which were used here over three hundred years in the fabrication of money.Display panels explain the different historical stages of production, ...
more

Royal Mint
Real Casa de Moneda de Segovia
Calle la Moneda
40003 Segovia, Spain

Sestao | Spain
Blast furnace no. 1 is the most important legacy passed down to our times from the Altos Hornos de Vizcaya (AHV) company. AHV, a Spanish iron and steel company, was founded in 1902 by the merger of three steel companies. At that time it was the largest company of its kind in Spain. It had its ...
more

Blast Furnace No 1
Horno alto número 1
Calle Txabarri
48910 Sestao, Spain

The Trepat factory, known as ‘Cal Trepat’, was the leading producer of agricultural machinery in Spain between the 1930s and the 1960s. The factory owner, Josep Trepat, became an important figure in Catalonia, where his machines helped to mechanise and transform farming. The factory manufactured ...
more

J. Trepat Factory Museum in Tàrrega
Museu Fàbrica J.Trepat de Tàrrega
Avinguda de Josep Trepat Galceran, 9
25300 Tàrrega, Spain

Trapagaran | Spain
The Larreineta Cliff Railway was built in 1926 to connect the mining neighbourhoods of Larreineta and La Arboleda to the town of Trapagaran, located in the Valley. This required overcoming a 342-metre difference in altitude, which was impossible using conventional railway systems. Unlike most cliff ...
more

Larreineta Cliff Railway
Funicular Larreineta
Funicular kalea, 30
48510 Trapagaran, Spain

Vilanova i la Geltrú | Spain
This open-air museum next to the Renfe Rodalies railway station celebrates the history of the railway in Catalonia from its beginning in 1848. The museum opened in 1990 and is housed in the city’s former locomotive depot, built at the end of the nineteenth century. The collection includes more than ...
more

Catalonia Railway Museum
Museu del Ferrocarril de Catalunya
Plaça d'Eduard Maristany, s/n
08800 Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain

The collection on show at the Fournier Museum of Playing Cards in Álava was started by Félix Alfaro Fournier in 1916 when he took over the family business of manufacturing playing cards. His interests as both a manufacturer and an avid collector led him to build up a collection of playing cards, ...
more

Fournier Museum of Playing Cards in Álava
Museo Fournier de Naipes
Cuchillería, 54
01001 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

Since the 11th century and through the centuries, iron ore has been extracted at the Aizpea mining complex. As a result of this activity a special landscape has developed at this location, the landscape of the Iron Mountain. In 1512 the Catholic Kings granted the exploitation rights of the Aizpea ...
more

Aizpea Mining Complex – The Iron Mountain of Zerain
Herriko plaza, z/g
20214 Zerain, Spain