sustainability criteria more closely to key aspects of industrial heritage, such as conservation and conversion. How can sites steeped in industrial culture become the cradle of a new age of economic activity [...] interpretation of lectures and discussions. The excursion on Saturday will take participants to industrial heritage sites in Berlin that are committed to sustainability, including the Malzfabrik, the ufaFabrik [...] new networks in the region and beyond. As always, the event is hosted by the Berlin Centre for Industrial Culture (bzi). This year, the Forum will be hybrid: face-to-face at the HTW Berlin, Campus Wil

of the Streetcar Museum in Porto. All participants in “Linking Europe” can also be viewed in our virtual exhibition. If you have a linking Europe story to tell at your industrial heritage site and have not [...] and the wider picture of European industrial development. Participating sites will focus on objects that illustrate the European, and also global, dimension of industrial development. Smaller objects may [...] PROJECT SHOWING THE INTERRELATIONSHIPS OF THE HISTORY OF EUROPEAN INDUSTRIALISATION Listen Europe's industrial development has always been characterised by cross-border trade in raw materials and commodities

and the area of the old city in which it stands were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the following year. The Museum of the Old Bridge occupies the 5-storey Tara Tower, one of the towers that a [...] d the bridge keepers, and also served as arsenals for the storage of weapons and ammunition. The museum consists of three sections devoted to the archaeology of the surrounding area, the restoration project

“Alte Dombach” paper mill in Bergisch Gladbach, one of the six sites belonging to the Rhineland Industrial Museum. The sole theme here is paper. From a path lined with a selection of plants which provide the [...] predecessor the “Alte Dombach” mill whose historic buildings were at first used for housing. The industrial museum opened in 1999 and also covers modern aspects of paper-making such as the mass production of

Bielsko-Biala was sometimes called the ‘Silesian Manchester’. The city’s museums portray many aspects of the history of the textile industry, and perhaps show more clearly than in any other European city the [...] pattern of the history of Bielsko-Biala is displayed in the museum in Sulkowski’s Castle, which is the headquarters of the municipal museum service that manages the two textile sites. The domestic stages [...] of the 18th century, and a late 19th century domestic weaver’s workshop. The Museum of Technology and the Textile Industry has been located since 1979 in a wool textile factory, whose nucleus was a workshop

became a place of memory for the traditions of the steel industry in the Mała Panew Valley. Close to the Iron Bridge you can visit the iron museum, presenting product of the iron works and a model of the

elaborately restored buildings house, amongst others, a multimedia museum illustrating the history of the Lower Silesian coal industry. The exhibits feature mining equipment and machines as well as the [...] contemporary Polish art whereas the former pithead baths accommodate the municipal centre for cultural heritage and Wałbrzych's dance company and choral group.

generator and transmission shafts. The reality of GDR industry is documented in the canteen and infirmary. The Oldisleben Sugar Factory Cultural Heritage Foundation took over the technical monument from Südzucker [...] domestic beets contained the same sugar as sugar cane. Breeding increased the sugar content until the industrial production of sugar from beet was developed around 1800. The first beet sugar factory was built [...] Union created favourable economic conditions for the cultivation of sugar beet and the beet sugar industry. By 1900, more than 600 beet sugar factories had been established in Germany, including the Oldisleben

Island of Rügen, the museum traces German automotive history from 1949 to 1989. It focuses on cars but also displays railway vehicles, fire-engines, trams, bicycles and models. The museum opened in 1994. It [...] and apartments as well as the museum. A collection of cars compares development in the divided East and West of Germany before Reunification in 1990. The communist industry of the East was more focused [...] focused on practicality and the industry of the West on performance and appearance. A star exhibit is the Volvo 264 TE, the imported car often used by officials of the German Democratic Republic. Locomotives

town and its surrounding landscape with relics of mining and smelting activities have been a World Heritage Site since 1993. New techniques were introduced in mining here earlier than elsewhere: for example [...] castles, outstanding Renaissance houses and the Kammerhof, where the ores were tested. The open-air museum of mining, opened in 1974, displays many surface structures from old mines, and includes a 1300 m

villages were united under a programme of industrialisation. The museum of coal mining opened in 1988. It is called an open air museum, although most of the buildings stand on their original sites and

part of Greece in 1912. Its silk industry prospered in the early twentieth century, but manufacturing has declined in recent decades. The municipality has developed a museum, opened in 2000, that tells the

The museum, a site of the Museum Network of the Cultural Foundation of the Piraeus Bank Group (PIOP), is close to a celebrated beauty spot called Kefalari-tou Al-Yanni. All the restored industrial buildings

optical industry is explored in a museum in the Kulturzentrum Rathenow (Rathenow Cultural Centre) at the town of Rathenow in north-east Germany. The pioneer of optics, who brought the future industry to Rathenow [...] mid-nineteenth century many optics companies were established in the town and by 1896 there were 163. The museum examines the history of optics locally and internationally – it includes telescopes, lighthouse lanterns [...] publicity. There are also displays about the history of the town from the Middle Ages through the industrial revolution to the Second World War and the communist era.

of the cultural heritage of Slovakia. Visitors are able to travel on a 3.6 km section leading to the Kysuce open air museum at Cadca, which is responsible for its management. The museum was founded in 1974

founded grew to become one of Norway’s most solid industrial undertakings and the precursor of the present Orkla Group. Orkla lndustrial Museum preserves industrial and technical pieces of historical interest [...] that an industrial-scale mining fully developed. The architect Christian Thams was the initator of the Orkla Grube-Aktiebolag (Orkla Mining Company), and he started one of the largest industrial enterprises [...] The local community Løkken Verk has developed during more than 300 years of mining industry. The ore in the Løkken field was discovered in 1652 and the mines put into operation in 1654. Later this find

collection of industrial heritage assets in Spain, housed in the former premises of the Orconera Iron Ore mining company in the Lutxana district of Barakaldo. Those who visit these old industrial workshops [...] the evolution of the most traditional sectors of Basque industry, namely mining, iron and steel, shipbuilding, machine tooling, the paper industry, graphic arts and the like. An extensive list that will [...] will undoubtedly attract the attention of visitors and through which they can learn about the industrial history of the Basque Country.

century. Mining began in the area in 1939 when the population was only 15,000. With the growth of the industry during and after the Second World War it increased to more than 21,000, and Oroszlány gained the [...] status of a town in 1954. In recent decades most coal has been extracted by open cast methods. The museum occupies a modernist group of pit-head buildings of reinforced concrete and glass at the XX (i.e

opened as a museum in 1992. The building is in the architectural tradition of the region but is the oldest surviving factory in Schwäbisch Gmünd, a city once reliant on the gold and silver industry. The museum [...] office equipment such as a telephone, calculator and typewriter. Children can make jewellery in the museum’s workshops.

How does a farming hamlet grow into an industrial town? The Educational Industrial Museum in Hengelo will give you the answer. Its theme is the industrial development of the town of Hengelo in the west [...] outstanding importance for this is a branch of industry which still flourishes in Hengelo, as is the model of a Dutch infrared satellite. A selection of the museum’s technical equipment is regularly put into [...] west of the Netherlands during the last 150 years. The museum starts with an exhibition of textile machines and a metal processing workshop dating back to around 1900. A steam engine and a range of diesel