42 North Hessian museums, associations, initiatives and companies will be hosting more than 70 exciting guided tours, exhibitions, exploring trips, factory tours, city walks and open days. The shared tagline
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history of computer technology, the best place to visit is the "Digital Retro Park", an interactive museum and centre for digital culture. The issue of urban planning then and now is illustrated by the guided [...] European Quarter". The co-existence of past, present and future is particularly exciting. In the factory museum of the Motorenfabrik Oberursel, for example, visitors do not only learn about the manifold factory
Many of the participating monuments are mostly not accessible to the public and open exclusively on this weekend. Among the highlights is the electrically operated Bergedorf rotary crane, recalling the [...] the long port history of this part of the city. The Blohmstrasse Culture Kiosk in the Harburg Museum Harbour is another venue celebrating its debut at the Days of Industrial Culture. The "Trinkhalle seit [...] and Kiel will also be taking part. The detailed programme on all the industrial heritage sites and museums in the Hamburg Metropolitan Region as well as further information on industrial history are available
water management, service and drinking water cycles in waterworks, sewage treatment plants, locks or open-air swimming pools. On offer are walking trails, trips by bike, train and boat along the Main and Rhine
Dozens of North Hessian museums, associations, initiatives and companies are involved. With guided tours, factory visits, exhibitions, hikes, experiments and open days, they breathe life into North Hessen's [...] The Immenhausen Glass Museum is holding a glass and porcelain flea market and is also hosting its current exhibition "Glass Art from Bohemia". At the Hessian Brown Coal Mining Museum in Borken, guided tours [...] using Hesse's largest lignite deposit to generate electrical energy exactly 100 years ago. The Thonet Museum in Frankenberg, which documents the transition from craftsmanship to industrial mass production in
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and company stories, collected by the Museum of Industrial Heritage . Another example was provided by René Capovin from Brescia's MUSIL (with the ERIH member Museum of Iron ), who illustrated the creation [...] and build a "sensitive city". Environmental regeneration is certainly one of the features of the "Open Your Mine" project presented by Commissioner Elisabetta Castelli of the Geomining Park of Sardinia
residents, have been given a completely new life. Once giants of textile production, they now operate as museums, hotels, cultural institutions or entertainment and trade centres, presenting their rich offer to [...] workshops, and learn about the industrial heritage of Łódź, visiting, among others, the Central Textile Museum, Manufaktura Complex, Księży Młyn (Priest Mill Complex) and Monopolis. The main part of the event [...] essential building block for all activities aimed at the future and development. Hence, on 25 October we open a new exhibition "EC1 Łódź. City from the New", in which we will show the revitalization processes
Young Professional Network. The programme is aimed at students from various disciplines, including museum studies, cultural studies, history, industrial archaeology, cultural and tourism management, sociology [...] Culture and Design at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences (HTW Berlin). The application portal is open . Beginning April 5, applications will be accepted on a weekly basis until all 22 spots are filled
Henrichshütte Ironworks in Hattingen also opens its doors for night-time explorers. Music attractions - such as "Back to the 80s" at ERIH Anchor Point LWL-Museum Zollern Colliery - complete the action-packed [...] effects in the skies above the ERIH Anchor Points Zollverein World Heritage Site in Essen and LWL Museum Henrichshütte in Hattingen as well as the Westerholt Colliery in Gelsenkirchen. ERIH Anchor Point
also provides some challenging tests of courage, including rides over deep gaps or trips up in the air. Henrichshütte Hattingen has an augmented reality installation as well, interpreting the history and [...] as a finale, provide a music parade to explore the opulent oeuvre of the Beatles. Bochum's railway museum is focusing on a slower pace this year, combining beer garden ambience with illuminated installations
was forced to close almost 130 years later, partly because of air and soil pollution. Today, the site is a location of the LVR Industrial Museum and also hosts its headquarters. A unique ensemble of historic [...] zinc producer worldwide. The fascinating story of this rise is recounted in the Vieille Montagne Museum . Other centres of the zinc industry and zinc mining were located in Upper Silesia, South Tyrol and
The Light Factory. Museum of Energy in Ponferrada, Spain, symbolises a new, promising technology: light as first application in the history of industrial power generation. Built in 1919, the thermal power [...] Ponferrada's general electricity grid from 1930 to 1971. The fascinating thing about the industrial museum is that it tells the story of the light factory consistently through the eyes of the people who worked [...] careful restoration, it is now considered a gem of Spanish industrial heritage. The National Railway Museum at Lousado , Portugal, also boasts a reputation as a precious relic of Portuguese railway history
existed in the marshlands and that have only survived in this single building in the Rieck Haus open-airmuseum. The Rendsburg High Bridge provides a completely different highlight as it is one of the largest [...] irrigation systems and, of course, factories and power plants: 112 historic industrial sites and museums join the seventh "Days of Industrial Heritage on the Waterfront" for guided tours and demonstrations [...] with water always playing a major role. ERIH sites are also taking part, such as the German Salt Museum in Lüneburg or the Kaltehofe Elbe Island Water Art . Another exciting discovery is the Ewer "Margareta"
takes advantage of its wide range of businesses, excellent infrastructure on land, on water and in the air, a powerful digital performance and the diversity of living and working environments in a metropolitan [...] and other industrial facilities to theatre plays and film screenings, and of course also include museum exhibitions. With a few exceptions, all offers are free of charge. Week van de Industriecultuur
heritage of western Leipzig. The Museum of Printing Arts, an ERIH site and always an exciting experience with its combination of a manufacturing workshop and museum, offers live machinery demonstrations [...] examples, visitors can choose from a factory tour of the European market leader for low-energy indoor air solutions and special applications, as well as a visit to a specialised foundry, a cell bank or a venture [...] festival is provided by the MIND WORLD programme in the Mining Technology Park, a 5.4-hectare former open-cast mining site showcasing historic machinery and automotive technology. During the Industrial Heritage
attached to a historicist brick factory. Once again, ERIH sites are involved. The Brown Coal Processing Museum in the „Herrmannschacht“ Briquette Factory , for example, will be bringing the lignite industry to [...] and processing of bulk material into solid briquettes are all part of the exciting guided tour. The Museum of Printing Arts , on the other hand, revives several centuries of printing and media history with [...] and tank depot of the largest cell bank in German-speaking Europe: it's here that modern factories open their doors for a close-up look behind the scenes. Since Leipzig's industrial heritage is part of
including the ERIH Anchor Points "Guido" Coal Mine and Queen Louise Adit in Zabrze, the Brewery Museum in Zywiec and the Historic Silver Mine in Tarnowskie Góry. Other ERIH sites involved are the Zinc [...] Zinc Rolling Mill and the Nikiszowiec Workers' Settlement in Katowice, the Bread and School Museum in Radzionków and the Ignacy Historical Mine in Rybnik. All visitors are invited to join in discovering the [...] its developments, transformations and breakthroughs on the ground, deep underground and up in the air. How does technology harness the four elements? Why does a light bulb burn? Can today's technology
