population of almost 200 and an exciting industrial museum. Also William Lever (1851-1925) provides adequate housing and social security for the workforce of his soap factory. The Port Sunlight Museum reveals [...] inventor of the garden city. Architectural elements such as the harnessing of sunlight and the low-traffic location of houses on cul-de-sacs are trendsetting for the time. The European scale of working-class [...] g examples of European company housing include the Cité Ouvrière in Mulhouse, Alsace, and the Belgian ERIH Anchor Point and World Heritage Site Grand Hornu . In Italy, the MuCa - Museum of the Shipbuilding

on the board of the new federal association as the representative of the ERIH member LVR Industrial Museum . Other members of the ERIH network, including LWL Museums of Industrieal Heritage , the Brand [...] Leader, Industrial Heritage RVR, Member), Dr Kirsten Baumann (Director LWL-Museums of Industrial Heritage, 1st Chairwoman), Dr Walter Hauser (ERIH President and Director LVR Industrial Museum, Member) [...] er (Head of LWL Culture Dept.), Marius Krohn (Director of Brandenburg/Havel Industrial Museum, Treasurer), Anja Nixdorf-Munkwitz (Chair of the Saxony State Association for Industrial Heritage, Member)

ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF GEORGIA Listen The peaks of the Caucasus to the north; the Black Sea to the west and the Caspian Sea nearby to the east: for thousands of years, Georgia has been at the crossroads [...] programme of industrialization. The use of water power began in 1927 with the hydroelectric plant in Avchala, near Tbilisi; the plant on the Rioni River near the expanding industrial city of Kutaisi went [...] In order to expand the transportation of crude oil from Baku – now part of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Azerbaijan – the government approved construction of a further pipeline to Batumi in 1930. A

and is now one of the museum's outstanding exhibits. On demonstration days, it drives the transmission system of several reconstructed historic workshops with their machines and tools: one of the largest [...] kilometres west of Siegen, is known for its half-timbered houses in the old town. The town has a long industrial history, and in 1991, 25 people got together and founded the ‘Friends of Historic Vehicles [...] they acquired the half-timbered hall of a former sawmill and rebuilt it together with a separate engine house and a replica of a Siegen fire engine house on the site of a glue factory that was demolished

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

The main exhibition of the Forssa Museum, the City of Colourful Cloth, tells the story of Forssa community. Museum Gallery Moletti, an atmospheric little gallery, focuses on contemporary and textile art [...] art. Forssa Museum was the Museum of the Year 2014 in Finland and a nominee for the Emya prize in 2015. In 2021, the museum opens a new site Pattern Centre, dedicated to printed fabric design. The large [...] hundreds of thousands of different patterns were produced. As the industry gradually waned, the factory properties were converted to other uses and the extensive archives were transferred to the museum. The

allow visitors to easily check in and out on site. If you plan well, you can soak up a lot of industrial heritage at former blast furnaces, collieries, breweries and gasometers from Waltrop to Hagen and [...] the foundry 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 [...] The programme pairs brightly illuminated industrial monuments with a rich and diverse cultural programme featuring music, lectures, guided tours and rather offbeat events such as longboard dancing in the

historian and to found a museum of working class life in the town of his birth. Karl Flanner was born in Flugfeld, a working class quarter of the industrial city of Wiener Neustadt, the son of a leather worker [...] he was one of the founding trustees of the Industrieviertel-Museum (Industrial District Museum) in the city and served as its director. The museum’s displays include one that tells the story of slave labour [...] labour under the Nazi regime, and of its links with factories in Wiener Neustadt. Karl Flanner was a member of the board of trustees of DÖW, the Vienna-based documentation centre for the resistance movement

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

adapted for a variety of purposes, but the former dyeshop of the cotton mill houses Työväenmuseo Werstas - the Finnish Labour Museum. The Museum tells the over two-hundred-year-old story of Tampere’s industry [...] the largest industrial city in the country, “the Manchester of Finland”. Impressive museum artefacts and photographs introduce visitors to the industrial enterprises and factory workers of Tampere. A large [...] The pioneer of large-scale manufacturing in the Finnish city of Tampere was the Scot James Finlayson (1771-1852) who, after a spell working in St Petersburg, established an engineering shop in the early

At Riihimaki, north of Helsinki, is Finland’s national museum of the glass industry. The origins of the museum were in 1961 but in 1980 it relocated to a former industrial building. This began in 1914 [...] displays of the museum were created by the leading designer Tapio Wirkkala. The focus of the museum is on the three centuries of the glass industry in Finland. The ground floor presents 4,000 years of glass [...] production and explains methods of glassblowing, machine manufacturing and decoration. Upstairs, the glass collection celebrates Finnish design. There are temporary exhibitions of historical collections and

on of canals – an important transport mode in the “land of a thousand lakes”. However, 1856 saw the opening of the Saimaa Canal, which linked the extensive watershed of Lake Saimaa with the Gulf of Finland [...] serfs, the handful of owners of large, profitable estates long dominated an overwhelming majority of day labourers and small tenants subsisting on the bare minimum. A modest tradition of iron-working emerged [...] ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF FINLAND Listen Finland’s rise as a prosperous industrial nation, which started in the mid-20th century, is due primarily to two very different factors: its extensive forests

Felt Museum opened in 1987 and was redeveloped in 2012. It occupies a former stables in the centre of the town of Mouzon in north-east France. A pioneering factory for the industrial production of felt [...] hair. The museum shows examples of felt products from different cultures, especially nomadic people in central Asia, including rugs, wall-coverings and clothing. It explains the processes of making felt

set within an expanse of woodland. Then, suddenly a red gorge appears: The Falun Mine. Once the world’s largest copper mine and today the heart of a unique historic industrial landscape, which was designated [...] designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. A path meanders around the mine and passes some cabins, which are dangerously close to the edge of the abyss, and were formerly used to drag the ore with a [...] a rope winch to the surface. More than one thousand years of the mine’s history are displayed in the local mining museum. Most spectacular is the coin cabinet with probably the heaviest and largest coins

past and present of the industrial plant. This includes the innovative architecture of the original buildings dating back to the years between 1911 and 1914 as well as shoe designs of the last century [...] The former warehouse of the Fagus Factory turns that question into an exciting story, displayed on five floors, and recounting various aspects that still shape our reception of architecture. This story [...] world heritage list in 2011, is still in function. So it's not only history the exhibition explores but also a living monument. Interactive displays, 3D visualisation, videos and a large number of exhibits

answers and find solutions? Can industrial heritage sites and museums be more than places of memory, focusing on the past? In what way can they provide a space to discuss topics of the future? Which common [...] stimuli for a reimagined industrial culture. In addition to the presentation and mediation in museums in the light of digitalisation, participants will also discuss the question of what role art can play [...] refined? How can a reframing of industrial culture be made visible and accessible for the public? On Thursday and Friday, inspiring panels will explore challenges and visions of the future that will provide

the historic pithead of Fürst Leopold in Dorsten. Another highlight of ExtraSchicht are the "forbidden" places that reveal some of their secrets on the "Night of Industrial Heritage". For example, ERIH [...] stunning light 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 [...] locked rooms of the Ewald mine. The 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

Management of Industrial Heritage Sites Ongoing Research Projects Preservation and Conversion of Industrial Heritage Sites Research Results, Studies Teaching and Learning at Schools and Museums [...] dealing with industrial heritage. Following you will find a selection of links we collected for you. In addition, a significant part of the sites featured on our website are best practice examples of use or [...] conversion of industrial monuments. Do you know any other website that should be listed here? Please send the corresponding URL to our webmaster . Bibliography Digital Offers Funding Industrial Heritage Tourism

ERIH is contributing to the costs of these initial contact visits with a maximum of 750 euros per person and 1,500 euros per organisation (member), up to a total of 3,000 euros per exchange. This covers [...] members / organisations) the opportunity to visit similar sites in other countries as part of the "Twinning of Sites" project, to exchange experience and knowledge, develop new project ideas and make long-term [...] than two sites. Participation requires at least three years of membership in the ERIH association. Partnerships should address at least one of the following topics: education, improving future work opp

2,400 sites of all branches of industry from all countries, that are partly or entirely considered part of Europe from a political, cultural or geographical point of view. The database of sites is continuously [...] Communication": retracing the tracks of the industrial revolution. The result is a "circuit diagram" showing the connections between the main themes of European industrial heritage. In addition to the selection [...] list company museums and sites that offer factory tours and industrial heritage properties on UNESCO's World Heritage List. As an introduction to each Theme Route, we present the history of the development