world’s largest copper mine and today the heart of a unique historic industrial landscape, which was designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. A path meanders around the mine and passes some cabins, which [...] 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 that were ever

Displays and models show the geology of coal, its discovery and exploitation in the area, its industrial uses and the life of miners and their communities. Visitors see the pit-head baths with miners’ [...] a restaurant in the Hotel des Mines and the preserved headframe at St Maurice des Noues. A 12-km heritage route for hikers and cyclists is called the ‘chemin de la mine’.

this "somewhat different museum". It is indeed somewhat different, for everything is prepared to be put into action as if it were a completely normal working day. But the museum does not simply bear witness [...] functional mills in the country Fellenberg bears witness to the transition period from hand work to industrial factory production. In 1797 a flour mill was set up in the town of Merzig in a street called "am [...] witness to hand work on the edge of the industrial revolution. Today it presents exhibitions of paintings, photography and sculpture, not forgetting other small events in the attic room.

The 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 [...] made for at least 8,000 years. It is produced by wetting, heating and compressing wool or hair. The museum shows examples of felt products from different cultures, especially nomadic people in central Asia

The town of Cairo Montenotte in North-west Italy became home in the early 20th century to an industry manufacturing photographic film. This began in 1917 when the firm SIPE collaborated with the French [...] items. The American company 3M invested in Ferrania until the late 1990s but it closed in 2017. The museum opened in 2018 in Palazzo Scarampi in the centre of Cairo Montenotte. It explores the century-long [...] of objects related to research and development, production, working life and the Italian movie industry. The objects include filming and editing equipment, scientific instruments, photographs, audiovisuals

hen. It is difficult to believe that only a few years ago this was the centre of the brown coal industry in central Germany. At its high point 820 miners of both sexes were employed on the open-cast mining [...] open-air concerts. The old 30 kilovolt central electricity power station now houses a multifaceted museum of regional mining history. The “Orangerie” provides visitors with all the need to eat and drink

for enthusiasts for the history of the motor car industry when visiting Turin are likely to be the Lingotto factory and Italy’s National Motor Museum, but, although it is open only on Sundays, the Fiat

The salt industry at Figuera de la Foz, a seaport and resort on the Mondego estuary, dates from the eleventh century AD, but many of the traditional salinas are being converted to fish farms. The salt [...] Corredore de Cobra, the reconstruction of a traditional salt warehouse, and the establishment of a salt museum.

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 as a mill for [...] spaces and elegant 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 [...] design. There are temporary exhibitions of historical collections and contemporary glass artists. The museum also houses a research library and archive. Nearby are other glassworks buildings adapted to new

Werstas - the Finnish Labour Museum. The Museum tells the over two-hundred-year-old story of Tampere’s industry. The exhibition describes how Tampere became the largest industrial city in the country, “the [...] “the Manchester of Finland”. Impressive museum artefacts and photographs introduce visitors to the industrial enterprises and factory workers of Tampere. A large 1650 hp Sulzer steam engine with an 8 m flywheel [...] flywheel is preserved in the museum.

the production of art castings under the direction of a German founder, C F J W Mertens (d 1882). A museum, open in the summer months, in a small 18th century building displays products of the works including [...] foundries in several European countries. Finspong remains an important centre for the engineering industries, and de Geer’s castle is now occupied by the Siemens corporation. The castle, the rushing water [...] the park, with its iron temple and bridges of the 1850s, comprise one of Sweden’s best-preserved industrial landscapes.

y. All disciplines relevant to industrial heritage are welcome, such as architecture and urban planning, cultural studies and history, heritage conservation, industrial archaeology, cultural and tourism [...] " 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 professionals [...] lity, 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

designed by young Norwegian architects in the Jugendstil – the German form of Art Nouveau. The fisheries museum occupies a white warehouse of 1861 on the mole at the entrance to the harbour which escaped the fire [...] displays illustrated the manufacture of cod liver oil for medicinal purposes, which was a significant industry in Ålesund, and the processing of klippfish (bacalao or stockfish), the traditional means of cutting

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 [...] reputation as a 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 [...] Communist governments before, during and after the Second World War are commemorated in several museums, notably that in Berlin. Karl Flanner suffered more than five years as a slave labourer and as a

launched in 1993, and was supported by the city of Wiener Neustadt and Diamond Aircraft Industries GmbH. The museum building was opened in 1999. Its outstanding exhibit is a Messerschmitt Me-109 of the Second [...] The museum at the edge of the airport at Wiener Neustadt is managed by a private association, and occupies an exhibition hall of 400 square metres. The displays are based on collections made by Toni Kahibacher

(Folldal Mines Trust, or SFG) was established in 1988 to ensure the preservation of the area’s mining heritage. The surviving monuments include some 70 buildings, including the home of the director of the mines [...] Park, established in 1962. It offers an exhibition ‘From Mine to National Park’ which links the industrial history of the area with its ecology. There is a geological garden where rocks and minerals can

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 from [...] 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 [...] way. The music will be provided by "Kai & Funky" from the iconic band "Ton Steine Scherben". World Heritage Site Zollverein will host exhibitions and live music as well as a water orchestra and the illuminated

a vast archival heritage coming from many important Italian companies (such as Breda, Falk, Ercole Marelli etcetera) and it is devoted to the appreciaBon of the local industrial heritage. Current events [...] conserve and enhance sources and documents of the history of the Italian resistance movement, industrial companies and the labour movement. Fondazione ISEC has become a naBonal reference point for whomever [...] Italy. Throughout the years, at the early corpus of documents, many archives belonging to great industrial businesses, parBes, poliBcal representaBves, militants and proponents in the fields of trade union

Anglian Film Archive are some of the most popular items on sale in the museum shop. For the steam and engineering enthusiast, the museum’s range of five working engines is impressive. ‘The Empress of Britain’ [...] The Food Museum is an open air landscape of buildings and machinery covering a huge 28 hectare site near the centre of one of East Anglia´s historic market towns, Stowmarket in Suffolk. This area has been [...] when the Smithy or the huge engines are at work and you can be transported back to East Anglia´s industrial past. East Anglian firms such as Garrett´s, Burrell´s, Paxman´s, Boby, Smyth and Fison are represented

The Forestry Museum in Sopron is linked to the Faculty of Forestry in the University of Western Hungary, where the first collection of specimens and artefacts related to forest industries was established [...] established by Henry David Wilchens (1763-1832). The museum occupies premises in the Estaházy palace alongside those of the Central Museum of Mining. It opened in 1983 and provides a comprehensive view of forestry [...] ecology is explained in detailed. One display shows how trees are felled and progress to sawmills. The museum includes important records of surveying and cartography, the earliest of them a forest map of 1658