discovery along the milestones of European industrial history. What is ERIH ? ERIH is the European Route of Industrial Heritage, a network of the most important industrial heritage sites in Europe. It is the [...] European industrial history. Germany's Ruhrgebiet, for example. Or South Wales, a key region in the "world's first industrial nation". Both these areas comprise a number of less significant industrial monuments [...] the tracks of the industrial revolution. Theme Routes take up specific questions relating to European industrial history and reveal potential links between radically different industrial monuments all over

Cold War housed in an innovative building opened in 2007. The museum is important in several respects in the wider context of European industrial history. The ‘Test Flight’ section consists principally of [...] The principal objective of the museum at Cosford is to educate present and future generations about the Royal Air Force. The principal displays are of the aircraft flown since 1939 by the RAF, its allies [...] for the last time in 1964, its endurance time having been proved to be no more than 25 minutes. The museum displays several aircraft of the types used by civilian airlines in the years between the end of

19th century when the Crimean War was at its height. This is generally acknowledged as the first industrial war because it resulted in a huge loss of men and equipment. At Waltham Abbey gunpowder production [...] Defence gave up the site. Now it contains a huge variety of flora and fauna – not to speak of a unique museum. The first thing which visitors encounter is a multi-media installation where they can get their [...] metre reservoir for testing water bombs, can be best visited by taking a tour in a land train. The museum also contains a collection of guns and rifles.

capital's iconic buildings like the Brandenburg Gate. And that's only one of the many stories told by the Museum and Park Rüdersdorf where visitors walk through 750 years of limestone mining and processing. Most [...] About the same time the striking portals of the Bülow and Heinitz Canals took shape, connecting the industrial site with the network of regional waterways. A building that looks like a city gate at first sight

high up in the present. The entrance to the Hindenburg tower (built in 1934) in the Saarland Mining Museum in Bexbach is situated at a height of 40 metres. From here you can get an outstanding view of the [...] washrooms and the lamp room informs visitors about the region’s geology, mining techniques and the industrial history of mining in the Saar. Here you can take a ride into a 200 meter long mining gallery in [...] on request, with a “half shift” (a sausage and a roll) or a “coffee plate” (coffee and cake). The museum is surrounded by a flower garden, adjacent to which lies “Monte Barbara”, a disused greened over

galleries in many countries. The contents of his workshop and its archives are held by the Museum of Industry and Labour at Sesto San Giovanni. [...] influence on the design of consumer goods in the second half of the 20th century. He was born in the industrial community of Sesto San Giovanni on the north-eastern side of Milan, and lived most of his life

of a soaring stone viaduct by the Manchester – Leeds railway. Saddleworth Museum illustrates the history of the textile industry and other aspects of the parish.

Saigerhutte in Olbernhau, 32 km south-west of Chemnitz, was once a self-contained village of timber-framed buildings devoted to the processing of copper, which originated in 1836, and was the principal

Salin at least from the 6th century AD, but the works that closed in 1962 and is now displayed as a museum dates principally from the mid-18th century. One of its largest underground chambers accommodates [...] remain in the town. The saltworks, with that at Arc-et-Senans forms part of a regional circuit of industrial heritage sites.

Europe, the conservation and rehabilitation of the industrial heritage are combined with projects for economic revitalisation. The reception area of the museum is at El Cadaviu station where there are displays [...] source to its confluence with the River Nalon. The whole valley is full of the evidence of past industries, with mines of many types, including adits, shafts and open-cast workings, railways, inclined planes [...] waste tips colonised by vegetation. The whole landscape is now under legislative protection. The museum at Cadaviu in the parish of Ciaño in the municipality of Langreo opened to the public in 2013 after

ancient and industrial traces, particularly evident in the museum of classical artworks housed in one of the papermill buildings, as marked by the tracks of the mine carts here preserved. The industrial history [...] complex in the medieval centre of Tivoli, 30 km northeast of Rome, that combines classical and industrial archaeology. The Sanctuary was built by the Romans between the second and the first century BC [...] area through a gallery, the via Tecta. Impressive Roman ruins are preserved, alongside remains of industrial structures installed here from the seventeenth to the twentieth century: factories, armouries and

Natural Park of Salinas, where salt water has been evaporated for centuries to make salt. The small museum that shows with original equipment and displays the process of extraction of salt in the past and [...] important habitat for wildlife that has been protected partly because it was needed for the salt industry.

Sauerland is the strongest industrial region in North Rhine-Westphalia, home to many market and world leaders. The museum's exhibitions focus on the region's economic and industrial history. It also hosts [...] The Sauerland Museum was founded in 1925 as a museum of local history for the Sauerland region and the history of the Duchy of Westphalia. Since 1937 it has been housed in the Landsberger Hof, a 17th century [...] exhibitions on the region's diverse industrial history, including industrialisation, brewing, tourism, timber and forestry, glass production, the paper and textile industries and much more. The collections

tapes, fire engines and military vehicles. The museum holds documentary records of Sauber vehicles and has links with other industrial and transport museums around the shores of the Bodensee.

grand scale. Some are now known only to specialists. In the Saxon Commercial Vehicle Museum in Hartmannsdorf near Chemnitz, approximately 50 restored pieces from the much larger inventory of the association [...] changing exhibitions and a functional setting. The spectrum ranges from the Presto, built in 1913 in Chemnitz, to the most recent exhibit, a Robur LO 3000 from 1991.

innovative products of Saxon industrial history, the major ones highlighted on a silver strip. The exhibits cover more than 200 years, from the beginning of industrialization to this day. There are, for [...] focal point of the museum. In the basement, where the textile tools are located, an entire production line is switched on, illustrating the century-old history of the Saxon textile industry by automatically

surface is a grindery used for working precious stones. The museum forms part of the Sächsisches Industriemuseum (The Saxony museum of industry) and part of the Mining Cultural Landscape Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří [...] Tin ore was discovered in the region of Ehrenfriedersdorf, 34 km south of Chemnitz, in the 13th century and was mined until the early 1990s. Some silver was also extracted from the local mines, as well

The railway museum at Chemnitz is located in the Hilbersdorf locomotive depot which closed in 1992. Its buildings, now designated historical monuments, include two roundhouses with 20 m turntables, water [...] private lines serving industrial concerns, the military or forestry enterprises not open to the public). A Krieglok 2-10-0 steam locomotive regularly works excursion trains. The museum organises a Boiler [...] inspection pits. Its large collection of locomotives includes examples on loan from the transport museums at Dresden and Nürnberg, and from private owners. The collection reflects principally the railways

100 Schomstein’ (the town of 100 chimneys). The textile museum, which is part of the Sächsisches Industriemuseum (The Saxony museum of industry), is located in a factory built by the firm of Pfau Brothers [...] monument in 1990, and in 1993 an association was established with the aim of developing it as a textile museum. Restoration of the building began in 1996 and the project was completed in 2003. O n their tour

only monument in the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate to be part of the European Route of Industrial Heritage: "We are proud that Sayner Hütte has joined the ranks of ERIH World Heritage Sites such [...] will be attending the ceremony on 24 March at 3 pm as well. His keynote speech on this "jewel of industrial history" states, among other things: "The attractively restored buildings on the monument site