in 2012 one of its locomotives was returned to Forst from the former DDR transport museum in Dresden. >>> The museum is closed until 2024 for structural repairs and subsequent redesign of the exhibition [...] spinning mill was opened in 1821 and the steam-powered factory began operation in 1844. The textile industry was stimulated by the opening of the railway from Sorau (now Zary in Poland) to Cottbus in 1872 [...] closing stages of the Second World War but all closed were after the reunification of Germany. The museum opened in 1995 in a four-storey polychrome brick factory built in 1897 by Daniel Noack. Its exhibits

1846, Bury Transport Museum holds a collection of vintage vehicles, including double-decker buses, steam rollers, trams, tractors, commercial vehicles, cars and bicycles. The museum was begun by volunteers [...] trains and vehicles. Craft workshops are held for children. The museum is operated as part of the East Lancashire Railway, a heritage railway that runs for 19 kilometres between Heywood in Greater Manchester

The Metallurgy Museum explores the heritage of the Ardennes mountain range as a former heartland of the iron industry. Opened in 1986, it occupies a large factory built in 1884, which produced nuts, bolts [...] bolts and fittings for the railway industry. The museum takes visitors on a journey through the evolution of iron making, beginning in the Middle Ages, when nails were forged by hand on the banks of the [...] steam hammer are also on display and photographs, models and digital animations help reconstruct the industry. From the twenty-first century, visitors see the new world of 3D printing with the demonstration

representative of the industrial world. The museum opened in 1992 and has welcomed over 600,000 visitors. It occupies a water-powered paper mill dating from around 1820, sited at a weir on the River l’Indre [...] This large technological history museum was established by Maurice Dufresne, a blacksmith and later an engineering entrepreneur and a specialist in salvage. Dufresne saved objects he believed to be re [...] l’Indre. The museum contains more than 3,000 objects from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They include a wide range of road vehicles such as bicycles, motorcycles, cars, steamrollers, a double-decker

gave access to underground chambers, drained by steam engines. The museum has developed from the work of the Friends of the Slate Industry, an association established in 1979. A sixteenth century house, the [...] tools, machines and working models. One display features the work of women employees in the slate industry. Other displays illustrate the uses of slate, and former miners demonstrate splitting techniques

Belgium, were recognised in 1158 when the Abbey of Signy gained rights to quarry there. The modern industry dates from the arrival in the village of Jean Baptist Collard in 1702. He began the open-cast working [...] did not recover its prosperity until 1930. The slate mine finally closed in 1997 and the present museum was opened in 2008 in the building from which the mines were managed, which also accommodated a power [...] Ardoise d’Ardenne organisation and the trail guide La Route d’Ardoise link Rimogne with slate-mining heritage sites at Bertrix and Alle-sur-Semois in Belgium and Haut-Martelange in Luxembourg.

which are of great interests to ecologists and geologists as well as to those concerned with industrial heritage. [...] the mining and quarrying of slate from the 15th century until the last workings ceased in 1975. The museum was established around the headstock of the former Longchamps mine by the Perrayeurs Mayennais, the [...] massive electric motor of 1904 that powered winding apparatus and air compressors remains in place. The museum holds a particularly notable collection of tools. Displays show the methods used in mines and quarries

for its large number of slate-faced buildings. Au Coeur de l’Ardoise is a museum concerned with the heritage of the slate industry in the region. Visitors can go on a 75-minute audio-guided tour that takes [...] are available in the museum shop. Au Coeur de l’Ardoise is linked through the organisation Le Réseau Ardoise d’Ardenne and the trail guide La Route d’Ardoise with similar slate museums at Alle-sur-Semois

Other museums are in preparation, including the Silesian Porcelain Museum in Tułowice near Opole, the Museum of Agricultural Techniques in Piotrowice Śląskie near Świdnica, the Railway Museum in Dzierżoniów [...] the liquidation of many historic industrial branches, in some cases entire industrial districts. The Foundation addresses this development with research on the industrial history of Silesia, hands-on protection [...] protection of the tangible industrial heritage and education on the economic factors underlying the threat to industrial relics. The most important activity of the Foundation is the protection of specific

even around 3,000 people employed in the local industry. The Düren Paper Museum is housed in a building in the town centre behind the Leopold Hoesch Museum. Here visitors can learn more about the interesting [...] dates. One of the main themes in the museum is devoted to "Paper Art". Items are not only displayed here in the museum. Every two years the adjacent Leopold Hoesch Museum presents the "Paper Art Biennale" [...] important means of communicating culture. In Düren, a town with an important paper industry, there is a complete museum dedicated to the material. The fact that paper, alongside textiles and metals, played

from the region’s coal mines represent the industry. The Mine Museum is part of the ‘Museums of Mequinenza’ with the Mequinenza History Museum and the Museum of the Prehistoric Past. [...] The Mequinenza Mine Museum presents over 170 years of mining history. Coal mining began in this area of north-east Spain in the late nineteenth century. The museum is housed in the underground workings

diversity of living and working environments in a metropolitan setting that combines industry and culture. The Industrial Culture Week perfectly reflects this symbiosis with its multi-faceted programme. The [...] boat tours and a visit to a recycling plant 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 [...] 43-kilometre canal, designed for seagoing vessels, makes Amsterdam and its port a leading European industrial hub. It takes advantage of its wide range of businesses, excellent infrastructure on land, on water

stationary diesel, oil or petrol engines were an important power source in agriculture and industry. The museum exhibits over 450 engines, most of which were made in Denmark in the golden age from 1890 [...] Located near the town of Grenå on the Djursland peninsula, the museum holds northern Europe’s largest collection of stationary internal combustion engines. After the heyday of the steam engine and before [...] largest engine manufacturer, which in 1930 had a 50-per cent share of the global marine diesel-engine industry. Engines by foreign companies such as Bamford, Berg and Deutza (from the United Kingdom, France

The museum celebrates the history of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. Founded in 1931, the museum was housed in various locations across the city but since 2005 it has shared the modern municipal complex [...] unification of East Armenia and Russia, focusing on everyday life in the city, including trade and industry. The third hall is organised thematically, exhibiting items related to the economy, education, culture

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 at following website [...] 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 1876" (drinking hall since 1876) [...] prevent the consumption of alcohol by industrial and dock workers during working hours and to provide them with non-alcoholic and healthy drinks. Many industrial buildings include natural surroundings

tourist potential. Landscapes that complement the museum and interpretive spaces linked to our industrial past and that, in addition to witnessing the industrial evolution of the Basque Country, maintain the [...] years, the very appearance of our towns and cities is a direct consequence of that industrialization process. Thus, industrial landscapes, whether urban, mining, port, etc., have themselves become resources [...] history. For this reason, the II International Forum of Industrial Tourism aims, on the one hand, to deepen its knowledge from a cultural-heritage perspective and, on the other, to publicize experiences

underground extension of the mines matches the urban area of Munich. The Werra Potash Mining Museum displays the industrial, mining, and social history of potash mining in the Hessian-Thuringian Werra region on

for a “Grand Tour” of the Italian industrial heritage, which integrates the visit of industrial heritage sites with other destinations of traditional cultural heritage. In this context, tourists will be [...] to living and heritage industrial sites, showing the different ways of working in sectors such as footwear, hat making, pencil making, mattresses, labels, textiles, tanning, car industry, leather goods [...] project, called “Industrial Tourism” and launched in 2012, that makes S. João da Madeira, a Portuguese city of approximately 22,500 inhabitants, a pioneer in the development of industrial tourism. This project

ways to mitigate against wider and long-term impacts on the protection and promotion of our industrial heritage. We are calling for papers on how sites can successfully rise to the challenge of the “new [...] held on Thursday 7th October 2021 as a hybrid event; in-person at the ERIH Anchor Point, Museum of Industry, Ghent, Belgium and online. A decision on whether the in-person part of the event will be able [...] and effective responses which can provide inspiration for all concerned with the future of the heritage sector. At present, it is proposed that, subject to Covid restrictions, the conference will be held

on industrial sites and other destinations, and connect with colleagues who are turning the potential of technical monuments and sites into tourism success stories. Mike Nevell, Industrial Heritage Support [...] members, reveals how the relaunch of industrial heritage tourism in the UK is being managed. Peter Backes, speaking on behalf of the Völklinger Hütte World Heritage Site, illustrates the potential of cultural [...] cultural programmes at industrial sites to attract new audiences. Jaroslav Dolina presents a current example of industrial tourism from the Karlovy Vary region and explains what factory tours at the largest