interest in Industrial Archaeology developed in the 1970s under the influence of the historian Maurice Daumas (1910-84). He began to advocate in use of field evidence in the study of industrial and economic [...] responsible for the fourth meeting of The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (TICCIH) at Lyon and Grenoble in 1981 which led to the setting up of a group responsible for es [...] national inventory of industrial heritage at the Ministry of Culture in 1984. He actively promoted research at the EHESS where he developed links with Francophone communities in other parts of the world, pa

attending an industrial archaeology conference in Bath, and, as a result of contacts made there, was a delegate in 1973 at the First International Congress on the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (FICCIM) [...] appointed to the first professorial chair in industrial heritage research at the University of Uppsala where she established the Nordic/Baltic Industrial Heritage Platform, an international programme for training [...] who came to be fascinated by the industrial heritage and greatly influenced its development not only in Sweden but across most of Europe. She studied at the University of Uppsala, with which she maintained

one of the pioneers of the heritage railway movement in the United Kingdom, which influenced the preservation of historic lines across Europe. He was the son of Francis Pegler, managing director of the [...] the project to preserve the Festiniog Railway in North Wales. He cleared the debts of the existing company, was chairman of the new company set up to work the line from 1954, and remained in touch will the [...] government-backed tour of the United States intended to promote British business. The train progressed from coast to coast but completed the tour in San Francisco in 1971 with a burden of debts. The new Co

director who made two documentaries that are of importance to students of industrial history. He had an individualistic style that fits into no particular school of film-making. Born at Fougeres, he did several [...] steelworks (on the scale of the preserved works at Völklingen), in the Saar. It was intended as a celebration of Guy Monnet’s plan for the modernisation of French industry as part of the European Coal and [...] furnaces, and some of the accidents that from time to time kill or disable the workers. The following year Franju made Hotel des Invalides, an ironic critique of France’s principal military museum. He directed

emerging industrial city of Łódź, the ‘White Factory’ was the first fully-fledged textile mill in Poland. The site is now home to the Central Museum of Textiles and is considered one of the country's most impressive [...] ion into one of Europe's most significant hubs of (industrial) culture, home to a Science & Technology Center and the National Center for Film Culture, among other things. Another icon of the emerging [...] impressive monuments of industrial architecture. With its extensive range of machinery and several major textile collections, it provides a detailed insight into 200 years of everyday working life and textile

- Post-industrial heritage is an element of our city's DNA and our most important marketing distinguishing feature - says Hanna Zdanowska, Mayor of the City of Łódź - 200 years of the history of industrial [...] constantly combine both of these heritages. The European Route of Industrial Heritage (ERIH) is co-created by post-industrial sites from 28 European countries. The route includes over 2,300 sites, and the association [...] 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 will take

world’ and the flagship of an industrial region in transition. With the completion of Central Shaft XII in 1932, one of the most efficient coal mines in the world entered the stage of the Ruhr region. Not [...] A trip to the roof of the former gas storage of Gutehoffnungshütte (GHH) offers a sweeping view over the Ruhr area and clearly shows how much the region has developed over decades of structural transition [...] official festival venue of the internationally renowned RuhrTriennale arts and culture programme. Sheer nostalgia abounds at the Bochum Railway Museum . Here, on the vast grounds of the former Dahlhausen

jointly hosted by ERIH, the Berlin Centre for Industrial Heritage (bzi) and the University of Applied Sciences (HTW) Berlin. The participants came from a wide range of countries – including various European countries [...] a matrix that provides evaluation criteria for the preservation of industrial heritage sites. The hosts were impressed by the quality of the presentations and the commitment shown by this year's students [...] Argentina – and represented a variety of academic disciplines. This is precisely what makes the exchange of young students such a fruitful experience and enables the results of the Summer School to be applied

right from the time of its construction. As a modern site of industrial heritage, it provides not only architectural highlights but also an authentic insight into the hard labour of the miners. Complementing [...] workflow of a blast furnace plant that August Thyssen had built in Duisburg's Meiderich district from 1901. One of the distinguishing features of this ERIH Anchor Point is the transformation of the massive [...] from the 40-metre coal bunker is one of the highlights of a visit. The ERIH member Ewald Mine | Hoheward Landscape Park has also undergone profound changes: one of the Ruhr region's most productive collieries

for the Protection of Silesian Industrial Heritage , which was established in 2007. Its main activity is the safeguarding of selected technical cultural monuments characteristic of Silesia, usually by [...] by converting them into museums. Two of the five museums currently being run are ERIH members: the Anchor Point Railway Museum of Silesia in Jaworzyna Śląska and the Walcownia zinc rolling mill in Katowice [...] thereby marking, along with other industrial monuments in the region, the start of mass production and use of iron and steel. It was not until 2005, after 18 years of decay, that the first restoration

change is now the greatest threat to our cultural heritage. Numerous concepts and framework agreements such as the European Green Deal or the Cultural Heritage Green Paper call for CO2 neutrality by 2050 (already [...] In view of these challenges, it is crucial to go beyond mere rhetoric and develop concrete strategies that lead to genuine environmental sustainability. Whereas "sustainability" used to be more of a buzzword [...] a demanding, sometimes exhausting, but indispensable process. What does all this mean for industrial heritage sites? How can the major framework concepts be broken down into manageable local or regional

climate change, working conditions, accessibility, digitalisation and the design of industrial heritage. On behalf of the ERIH General Assembly, the Executive Board has developed a new membership category [...] The " ERIH Young Professionals' Network " was created at the suggestion of participants in the Industrial Heritage Summer School . It is aimed at young people, particularly students, but also young pr [...] postgraduates and anyone in the first five years of their professional career. The approach is interdisciplinary. All disciplines relevant to industrial heritage are welcome, such as architecture and urban

different regions of Wales, including the ERIH Anchor Points National Waterfront Museum in Swansea, World Heritage Big Pit National Coal Museum in Blaenavon and National Slate Museum World Heritage Site in Llanberis [...] route "Valleys that changed the World". The potential of ERIH in supporting its members was the subject of the lecture "Industrial heritage - the power of networking" by ERIH Vice-President Dr Adam Hajduga [...] Stephen Barlow, Head of Engagement at the National Lottery's Heritage Fund Wales, and Steph Mastoris, Head of Museums at Amgueddfa Cymru, a charity that incorporates seven national museums and a collections

the industrial museum is that it tells the story of the light factory consistently through the eyes of the people who worked there. Thanks to its careful restoration, it is now considered a gem of Spanish [...] 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 [...] Spanish industrial heritage. The National Railway Museum at Lousado , Portugal, also boasts a reputation as a precious relic of Portuguese railway history. The extensive rolling stock with exhibits ranging

other things. The location of the ERIH site Mining Museum in Landek Park combines the nature of the protected former Landek industrial area with collections from the beginning of the 20th century, which are [...] the place the reputation of a "town of millionaires". Where there is a lot of hard work, there is beer. The ERIH site Radegast brewery in Nošovice, just 16 kilometres south-east of Ostrava, benefited in its [...] the "Iron Heart of the Republic": the vast industrial complex and ERIH Anchor Point Dolní Vítkovice in Ostrava, the third largest city in the country, which in turn constitutes the centre of this Czech industrial

iron ore mining in the province of Bizkaia, thus transforming this sub-region into a European centre of heavy industry. A typical example is the blast furnace No. 1 of Altos Hornos de Vizcaya in Sestao [...] Getxo is also home to the mansions of wealthy tycoons, whose history is revealed by a relaxing audio guide tour. To understand the chronological range of Basque industrial development, visitors can match [...] Muskiz, right in the heart of the Bizkaia mining zone and dating back to the 16th century, with the Dolomite Museum in Karrantza featuring an exhibition on dolomite mining as of the 1950s. There are two

ERIH members to participate. All other European industrial heritage sites with tourist potential are also invited to take part in the survey, regardless of their ERIH membership. Please support us and take [...] The survey for the Industrial Heritage Barometer 2022/23 with questions targeting the years 2021 and 2022 is conducted from 6 to [26 March, extended until] 20 April 2023. In order to get as comprehensive

pumping stations, 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 [...] new entry in the programme of this year's industrial heritage festival. These few examples reveal the diversity of the attractions on offer, covering a wide range of activities for technophiles, culture [...] stands for hundreds of wind-powered versions of its kind that once existed in the marshlands and that have only survived in this single building in the Rieck Haus open-air museum. The Rendsburg High Bridge

weighing less than 600 kilograms? Three ERIH sites also feature in the Industrial Heritage Days of Northern Hesse. The Immenhausen Glass Museum is holding a glass and porcelain flea market and is also hosting [...] Hessen's industrial heritage. As always, the factory tours of operating companies are well booked. What is the process for getting mineral water from the well into the bottle and beer from Hessen's first [...] Thonet Museum in Frankenberg, which documents the transition from craftsmanship to industrial mass production in the 19th century, draws visitors to its factory outlet with a large selection of Thonet

For instance, fans of industrial heritage can explore historical fountains and (spa) baths on the guided tour "Schelche, Brunnen, Badespaß" ("Bowls, fountains, bathing fun") across Rüsselsheim. Its scope [...] scope ranges from the city's supply with drinking water hundreds of years ago to the construction of ornate fountains and the building of the municipal sanitary infrastructure to current daily consumption [...] learn about historical and modern railways and waterways, for example on the guided tour of the Bavarian port of Aschaffenburg entitled "Wasserstraße & Schiene - Infrastrukturen für umweltfreundlichere