Tucked inside this tiny village, almost lost in the immense fenland landscape, is a fascinating industrial story. Prickwillow is a former diesel pumping station built to drain the fens. Man´s struggle to [...] metre below the outfall on the Wash in Norfolk, so pumps had to be efficient. On running days, the Museum powers up its original Mirlees pumping engine, dating from 1924 and believed to be the only blas

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PROJECTS ERIH INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE BAROMETER Since 2018 ERIH in cooperation with the Regionalverband Ruhr carries out surveys of industrial heritage sites in Europe. All industrial heritage sites are invited [...] develop skills and competences. more EUR ACADEMY OF INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE Aim of the project is to attract young people to European industrial heritage as a career option. For this ERIH organises courses [...] courses in cooperation with universities. more INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE SUMMER SCHOOL The 14-day Summer School for students from European universities combines interdisciplinary knowledge transfer with practice-oriented

The growth of manufacturing industry in Europe was sustained by the development of financial institutions that provided capital for entrepreneurs and a measure of security for the population at large. [...] at a meeting in Hatton Gardens, London, on 30 May 1848. Six years later the company set up an ‘Industrial Department’ that employed door-to-door agents to sell ‘penny policies’ in middle class and respectable [...] Victorian architects, best known for Manchester Town Hall, completed in 1877, and for the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, built between 1868 and 1880. The offices were commissioned during 1879, and c

completed, however, as the Industrial Conversion Decree was approved in 1983. After large mobilisations of the workers, the closure of the factory was imposed. As for the industrial heritage, buildings such as [...] No. 2 and the Spare Parts Warehouse have been preserved, which will become the future Museum of Industrial Heritage and the Workers' Memory of Puerto de Sagunto.

The museum preserves the former Pythagoras engineering works in an attractive group of low brick buildings around a courtyard. The works continued to be named after the Ancient Greek mathematician after

the tradition as Intangible Cultural Heritage. The textiles were produced in small workshops from the seventeenth century, then in larger workshops. The Kékfestő Museum at Pápa in western Hungary occupies [...] War it employed 50 people. In 1959 the entire contents were preserved and the buildings opened as a museum in 1962. The cellars include the washing room and the dyeing room with large vats into which textiles

The small town of Ribnitz-Damgarten on the Baltic coast has a heritage in the early aircraft industry that began in 1934 with the relocation there of the Walther Bachmann aircraft factory. This specialised [...] trained in flying boats and other aircraft. Soviet armed forces were based there from 1954 to 1991. The museum is on the airfield, housed mainly in impressive reinforced concrete aircraft hangers. It specialises

and Styal Estate with Styal Village is the most complete and least altered factory colony of the Industrial Revolution. It is of outstanding national and international importance. Founded in 1784 by a young [...] ocuments provide evidence about the life and work of the Greg family and their workforce. 3. A Living Museum Quarry Bank Mill and Styal Estate is still a working Cotton Mill producing over 9,000m (10,000 yards) [...] machines working and meet skilled Millworkers with years of experience of working in the cotton industry. 4. The Great Iron Waterwheel and two Steam Engines Quarry Bank Mill and Styal Estate now offers

de Bilbao. The industrial museum RIALIA (which takes its name from the river) occupies a building begun in 1993 which was intended for various projects that did not materialise. The museum opened there in [...] exhibits donated to the museum. The last room is used to offer temporary exhibitions, both by local artists and related to industrial, marine and nautical themes among others. The museum's collection includes [...] includes watercolours, oil paintings, instruments and materials used at work and related to industrial development. They offer a living reflection of the activity of the different workshops and installations

Eskilstuna is a planned industrial town of the mid-17th century, established for King Carl Gustaf in 1658 by Reinhold Rademacher. Twenty wooden smithy buildings, designed by the architect Jean de la Vallée [...] to the present day, and more recent products, particularly vehicles, are displayed in the Munktell Museum, which is linked with the Volvo company.

The majority of the industrialist donated Rahmi Koç Museum is an excellent example of how historic industrial buildings a new use can feed. In the former anchor foundry of the Arsenal House (the shipyards) [...] shipyards) on the Golden Horn, the Koç-Foundation has set up an industrial museum, that gathered beside the railway, aviation and shipping also developments in communications technology and astronomy. Walkable [...] Walkable captain bridges, a real submarine at the jetty and beautiful miniature railways make the museum interesting for children.

– an extraordinary symbol of conspicuous wealth. The castle and museum are part of the Slate Landscapes of Northwest Wales World Heritage site and owned by the National Trust.

had 15 of its own brands. The Ramirez 1853 Centre includes a museum that provides a comprehensive picture of the Portuguese fish canning industry. Its larger exhibits include tuna traps, the prototype of

Points National Waterfront Museum in Swansea, World Heritage Big Pit National Coal Museum in Blaenavon and National Slate Museum World Heritage Site in Llanberis. A number of five-minute project updates provided [...] the lecture "Industrial heritage - the power of networking" by ERIH Vice-President Dr Adam Hajduga. Also speaking were Stephen Barlow, Head of Engagement at the National Lottery's Heritage Fund Wales, and [...] and Steph Mastoris, Head of Museums at Amgueddfa Cymru, a charity that incorporates seven national museums and a collections centre based in different regions of Wales, including the ERIH Anchor Points

cellar with its scouring and dying rooms and their rinsing channels. Nowadays the Red House is a museum which visitors may view on guided tours. It is not only the sole remaining representative building [...] firms experienced in expanding their businesses in the narrow Rur valley resulted in the cloth industry gradually moving away from the area. Now the Red House, more than anything else, stands as a reminded

Anyway, they are witnesses of the industrial past and will lead visitors through the history of Luxembourg’s steel industry. In Rumelange, at the National Mining Museum , you will learn more about the mining [...] marked by the industrial culture but has managed to give itself a new identity over time, where the industrial past and new technologies melt into a unique mixture. On the former industrial site Belval, [...] iron ore was undoubtedly behind the success of the steel industry in the Grand Duchy back in the middle of the 19th century. Former industrial sites were partially preserved and renovated, or have become

Redecz Krukowy Museums are three museums on the same site, established since 2009 with the support of the agricultural machinery maker Janusz Borkowski. They aim to protect the cultural heritage of the Kuyavi [...] Kuyavi region of north-central Poland. The Arms, Science and Technology museum is rich in vehicles with numerous cars, motorcycles and bicycles, including the Fiat-Simca car produced before 1939 and Niemen [...] s include Pionier radios from Romania and an early Neptun television made in Gdansk. The railway museum preserves steam and diesel locomotives, tram cars and rolling stock for passengers and freight. A

preserved as a monument. The Regional History Museum was established in 1924 and was originally concerned with the development of mining and the iron and steel industry. It later developed programmes of arch [...] reflect many aspects of the city’s history, although they continue to illustrate the origins of heavy industry in the region in the late 19th century.

region. The cellar of the Bergisch Museum of Mining, Crafts and Trade in the Bergisch-Gladbach suburb of Bensberg keeps alive the memories of a once important branch of industry. Life between the palace and [...] variegated series of exhibitions housed here directly beneath the magnificent Bensberg Palace. The museum itself dates back to 1928 and is housed in the so-called “Little Tower House” adjacent to the local [...] local town hall. The exhibition is centred on people’s everyday life in the pre- and early industrial eras. What was life here like around 1700 when Duke Johann Wilhelm II built his magnificent palace along