(PL) Margarethenhütte Electrical Porcelain Museum. Großdubra (D) Mildenberg Brick Works Park. Zehdenick (D) Museum Oederan 'The Weaving'. Oederan (D) Musil. Museum of Industry and Labour | Cedegolo Power [...] Lage Brickworks LWL Industrial Museum. Lage (D) Lauchhammer Bio-Towers. Lauchhammer (D) Le Bois du Cazier World Heritage Site. Marcinelle (B) Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum | Exploseum. Bydgoszcz (PL) [...] Brescia (I) Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology. Oslo (N) Old Mine Science and Art Centre. Wałbrzych (PL) Pfau Brothers Textile Factory. Crimmitschau (D) Pilsner Urquell Brewery Museum. Plzen (CZ) Riotinto

Industrial Museum. Lage (D) Le Bois du Cazier World Heritage Site. Marcinelle (B) Museum Nord. Narvik (N) Museum Oederan 'The Weaving'. Oederan (D) Museum of Metallurgy. Chorzów (PL) Museum of Work. Hamburg [...] PJSC 'Arcelor Mittal Kryvyi Rih' Open Air Museum of Mining Equipment. Kryvyi Rih (UA) Prince's Arsenal. Kragujevac (SRB) Queen Louise Adit. Zabrze (PL) Railway Museum of Silesia. Jaworzyna Śląska (PL) [...] Añana Salt Valley. Salinas de Añana (E) Art Casting Museum. Lauchhammer (D) Baruth Glassmaking Village. Baruth (D) Bursledon Brick Works Industrial Museum. Southampton (GB) Centrum Kultury Śląskiej at former

Narvik (N) Museum Nord. Narvik (N) Museum Oederan 'The Weaving'. Oederan (D) Museum Oederan 'The Weaving'. Oederan (D) Museum of Industry. Gent (B) Museum of Industry. Gent (B) musil – Museum of Industry [...] Königshain Granit Quarrying Museum. Königshain (D) Königshain Granit Quarrying Museum. Königshain (D) Lage Brickworks LWL Industrial Museum. Lage (D) Lage Brickworks LWL Industrial Museum. Lage (D) Lauchhammer [...] Porcelain Museum. Großdubra (D) Margarethenhütte Electrical Porcelain Museum. Großdubra (D) Mildenberg Brickworks Park. Zehdenik (D) Mildenberg Brickworks Park. Zehdenik (D) Museum Nord. Narvik (N) Museum Nord

ceased production , is today a museum. The Areny family has also been active in the iron business since the 17th century. The family estate in the town of Ordino is today open to the public as an example [...] political role for the first time. His son Pau Xavier founded Andorra’s first, albeit short-lived, museum in Ordino in 1903. Tobacco farming emerged as a further important industry at the end of the 17th [...] 17th century, not least on account of the profits to be made by smuggling cigarettes into Spain. The museum housed in the tobacco factory founded by the Reig family, which operated from 1903 to 1957, testifies

: the spectrum ranged from calculating machines and computers to electronic components for Soviet air defence. This was associated with the development of highly specialised research facilities, particularly [...] Mergelian. The innovative computer families "Rasdan-2" and "Nairi" were developed there in the 1960s. The Museum of Science and Technology in Yerevan documents these pioneering achievements. In order to remedy

Cypriots exploited the seemingly inexhaustible deposits in the Troodos mountains in underground and open-cast mines and shipped the ore to all the important peoples of the Mediterranean. This trade was so

example of ancient landscape destruction. In the Middle Ages, local authorities were concerned about the air pollution caused by the roasting of flax. From the 15th century onwards, "smelter smoke" became a fixed [...] of sulphur in the city to the burning of coal in breweries and lime kilns: sulphurous gases in the air we breathe then became one of the greatest health hazards in industrial regions for centuries. With [...] Smoke from factory chimneys and furnaces in overcrowded working-class neighbourhoods polluted the air we breathed with a cocktail of dusts and gases, especially ammonia, sulphur, carbon and nitrogen compounds

foundations, 4% are corporate museums and 6% have other ownership. Opening times (different due to coronavirus pandemic) 2021: 71% open all year, 18% seasonal, 11% closed 2022: 80% open all year, 17% seasonal [...] 30% from the country concerned and 10% were international visitors. Due to the general and museum-specific restrictions imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, the proportion of international visitors halved

reuse and popularisation of post-industrial sites in Europe for cultural and tourism purposes, e.g. museums: permanent and temporary exhibitions (presentation), event venues (entertainment), interpretation [...] Video of the students' site visits in 2021 Please activate video Cookies in order to watch this video open cookie preferences

two individual students engaged themselves in the topics of “Independence and Sustainability in a Museum” and a pitch for a “Sustainable Industrial Heritage Hotel Project”. The Summer School and the results [...] Industrial Heritage Summer School 2024 Please activate video Cookies in order to watch this video open cookie preferences The "European Industrial Heritage Summer School" has been awarded the Best Practices

accessibility of the site for visitors: during the usual tourist season in summer the location should be open at least two days a week. Each site of ERIH's object database is assigned to one or more Theme Routes [...] European industrial heritage. In addition to the selection by industry, you can also list company museums and sites that offer factory tours and industrial heritage properties on UNESCO's World Heritage

São Pedro da Cova (Portugal), São Pedro da Cova Mining Museum Warsaw (Poland), Museum Station Freudenberg (Germany), Freudenberg Technical Museum Iglesias (Italy), Santa Barbara Mining Trail Ivrea (Italy) [...] Production and Manufacturing Salt Service and Leisure Industry Textiles Transport Water Xtra: Company Museums and Factory Tours Xtra: UNESCO World Heritage Sites + – Shrink map I want to go there! My ERIH Route [...] EUROPE'S INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE WITH ERIH Please activate video Cookies in order to watch this video open cookie preferences ERIH STANDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF UKRAINE Listen Russia invaded Ukraine

Sulphur was mined primarily in the vicinity of Lake Mývatn and in Krýsuvίk on the Reykjanes peninsula in open-cast mines, with Húsavίk serving as the main shipping port. The profits are said to have been bre [...] instance, they were only permitted to go fishing when the field work was finished, and rowed out in open skiffs while foreigners were routinely since fishing Icelandic waters in sailing vessels. A professional

Beamish (GB). Open Air Museum Bergisch Gladbach (D). Old Dombach Paper Mill LVR Industrial Museum Beringen (B) be Mine Flamish Mining Museum Berlin (D). German Technical Museum Birmingham (GB). Museum of the [...] Works LVR Industrial Museum Euskirchen (D). Müller Textile Works LVR Industrial Museum Friedrichshafen (D). Zeppelin Museum Furtwangen (D). German Clock Museum Gent (B). MIAT Museum about Industry, Labour [...] (D). Textile Works LWL Industrial Museum Bochum (D). Railway Museum Bochum (D). Hall of the Century London (GB) London Museum of Water and Steam London (GB) London Museum of Water & Steam Burton-upon-Trent

with an alternative: he refined pig iron in a half-open furnace, on which the iron was separated from the burning coal only by a low wall. The hot air from the furnace was conducted over the pig iron to [...] another alternative to the open refining furnace. Wilhelm Siemens used to the warmth from waste gases in his "regenerative furnace" to additionally heat up the combustion air needed to process the pig iron [...] heat it. At the same time it was stirred by a worker with a long rod to release the carbon into the air. The result of this "puddling" process was a highly resilient iron which could be used equally for

largest energy producers in the socialist federation: More coal mines were built, especially the huge open-cast coal mine in Ekibastuz, natural gas production was expanded, and oil wells sprang up, especially [...] in the 20th century) Turksib. Turkestan-Sibirian Railway (Painting by Abilkhan Kasteyev. State Art Museum of Kazakhstan) Kazakhstan was a union republic of the 'Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)'

economic reasons. Fresh air was not only needed by the miners underground, it was also necessary to reduce the levels of explosive pit gas. For this reason experiments began with air pumps in British collieries: [...] lose their lives as a result of explosions underground, and the risks were made greater by the use of open lighting; candles and oil lamps. In 1815 a scientist by the name of Humphry Davy came up with the [...] by the colliery owners. Real progress was only made after 1853 with the introduction of compressed-air drives. Starting in the 1840s massive pithead towers made of quarrystone or redbrick, began to be

objects may be exhibited in a prominently display case while larger objects may be located in the open air. Information boards will explain the story behind the object(s) and the European linkage that is [...] linkage– for example, technology of the German company Siemens in the converter factory of the Streetcar Museum in Porto. All participants in “Linking Europe” can also be viewed in our virtual exhibition. If you

by the entrepreneur Henry Cort: his workers had to constantly stir ("to puddle") the pig iron on an open hearth, the "puddling furnace", so that unwanted trace elements and slag could be removed and forgeable

reclamation projects. The principle was always the same: the area of water would be shut off from the open sea or any other tributaries by dikes. A series of windmills would then be built on the banks and [...] administrations to take action. People now knew that the disease-causing agents were not carried by air, as was long thought to be the case, but by polluted water. In 1852 in London, people began to purify