Wales, including the ERIH Anchor 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 [...] Head of Engagement at the National Lottery's Heritage Fund Wales, and Steph Mastoris, Head of Museums at Amgueddfa Cymru, a charity that incorporates seven national museums and a collections centre based [...] for Arts, Sport and Tourism, Dawn Bowden. ERIH board member John Rodgers and Ruth Taylor-Davies, National Representative for Wales, presented previous efforts to implement the regional route "Valleys that

its careful restoration, it is now considered a gem of Spanish industrial heritage. The National Railway Museum at Lousado , Portugal, also boasts a reputation as a precious relic of Portuguese railway [...] The Light Factory. Museum of Energy in Ponferrada, Spain, symbolises a new, promising technology: light as first application in the history of industrial power generation. Built in 1919, the thermal power [...] Ponferrada's general electricity grid from 1930 to 1971. The fascinating thing about the industrial museum is that it tells the story of the light factory consistently through the eyes of the people who worked

Flaschar slate mine is one of the few remaining examples of the regional slate industry that flourished around 1900. Its importance is reflected in the fact that there are seven other disused slate mines [...] operate in 1998, the entire site made up of colliery, steelworks and rolling mill was declared a National Cultural Monument. The conversion into a multifunctional cultural and educational hub is a dynamic [...] Siemens-Schuckert electrical converters, among other things. The location of the ERIH site Mining Museum in Landek Park combines the nature of the protected former Landek industrial area with collections

developed into one of the first multinational corporations and the largest zinc producer worldwide. The fascinating story of this rise is recounted in the Vieille Montagne Museum . Other centres of the zinc [...] later, partly because of air and soil pollution. Today, the site is a location of the LVR Industrial Museum and also hosts its headquarters. A unique ensemble of historic industrial plants in the midst of

this time – with three lectures on "Photography between Tradition and Innovation" at the Ernst Leitz Museum in Wetzlar. The Middle Hesse Industrial Heritage Days were initiated by the Middle Hesse Industrial [...] Working Group, which is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year. Participants in the event include museums and science centres, clubs and associations, companies and tourism experts as well as representatives [...] municipalities, districts and the regional council. Also involved are the two natural reserves and the national Geopark. Tage der Industriekultur Mittelhessen

monuments and museums in their work and helps to increase public interest in industrial heritage. Visits to a number of member sites were also part of the agenda. These include the Asturian Museum of the Steel [...] Ecomuseum in Ciaño and, of course, the two Anchor Points of the Regional Route, the Asturian Railway Museum in Gijón and the Sotón Mine in San Martín del Rey. The latter welcomes visitors with an exciting

effects in the skies above the ERIH Anchor Points Zollverein World Heritage Site in Essen and LWL Museum Henrichshütte in Hattingen as well as the Westerholt Colliery in Gelsenkirchen. ERIH Anchor Point [...] Point Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park will be crowned by a towering firework. In addition, the internationally renowned Flic Flac Circus bike stars will be performing thrilling shows with spectacular stunts. [...] for night-time explorers. Music attractions - such as "Back to the 80s" at ERIH Anchor Point LWL-Museum Zollern Colliery - complete the action-packed programme. Visitors only need one ticket to hop easily

coexistence of industrial heritage and nature worth protecting. Highlight of the ERIH Anchor Point National Museum of Iron Ore Mines in the small town of Rumelange, bordering neighbouring mining regions of Lorraine

ERIH Anchor Point National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia in Terrassa. It is affiliated with a regional network of 29 Catalan science, industry and technology museums (MNACTEC). While visiting [...] certificate for the Regional Route to museum director Jaume Perarnau. The guided tour was part of the side programme of the PMG meeting, which was organised by the national representative for Spain and ERIH [...] successful generational change and prevent the loss of extensive local and industry knowledge among museum experts, site operators and former employees. This is were the ERIH Young Professionals (YP) network

of the ERIH member LVR Industrial Museum . Other members of the ERIH network, including LWL Museums of Industrieal Heritage , the Brandenburg/Havel Industrial Museum , Ferropolis Ltd , the BZI Berlin Centre [...] RVR, Member), Dr Kirsten Baumann (Director LWL-Museums of Industrial Heritage, 1st Chairwoman), Dr Walter Hauser (ERIH President and Director LVR Industrial Museum, Member), Jürgen K. Enninger (Head of Culture [...] foundation. Leading the way were the participants of the ERIH Germany Dialogue. In 2023, at the Nuremberg Museum of Industrial Culture , they adopted the Nuremberg Declaration on German Industrial Heritage, and

Madeira with stops at the only Portuguese pencil factory Viarco , the Museum of the Papermaking Region of Santa Maria and a hat res. shoe museum. Information about the conference and further news related to [...] of which exclusively showcases examples of best practice. Seeking closer ties between industrial museums, city councils and companies, the conference will furthermore include the signing of several agreements

tour of open air museums in Scandinavia and he took inspiration that lasted for the rest of his life from Skansen and other museums that he saw. In 1958 he became curator of the Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle [...] determined to follow a career in museums. He studied science at the University of Sheffield, after which he was employed for a time in a coke works before obtaining a job at the museum at Wakefield. In 1952 he [...] available at Beamish Hall in Co Durham, and Frank Atkinson was appointed to direct the museum in 1970. The museum opened the following year and its successes in the years that followed, when it was subject

themselves become resources with great cultural and tourist potential. Landscapes that complement the museum and interpretive spaces linked to our industrial past and that, in addition to witnessing the industrial [...] future generations, but also to visitors who want to know our history. For this reason, the II International Forum of Industrial Tourism aims, on the one hand, to deepen its knowledge from a cultural-heritage [...] ritage perspective and, on the other, to publicize experiences and good state and international practices, that are part of the ERIH Network, that serve as a reference for the future development of new

Technobull" in the RadWerk museum in Klein-Auheim. Another priority in the Rhine-Main region is aviation. In 1908, Germany's first airfield was built here, followed by the first international aircraft exhibition [...] exhibition one year later. Other prominent examples are the Zeppelin Museum in Neu-Isenburg and Frankfurt Airport. As an artistic highlight of the Days of Industrial Culture, various artists will transform the

projects were cited that damaged the site's exceptional value. The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales: National Slate Museum Llechwedd Slate Caverns Snowdon Mountain Railway Festiniog Mountain Railway Cordouan [...] the functional and social linkages of the relict slate industrial landscape. The property was internationally significant not only for the export of slates, but also for the export of technology and skilled [...] height, the Nominated Property accounted for 90% of slate production and employed 75% of the entire slate workforce in Wales. Apart from the Welsh slate region around the Snowdon Massif, the World Heritage

in museums: how are museum objects restored, what stories do the objects tell and how can they be turned into an exhibition in the end? The camp, jointly organised by the bzi and the International Youth

interested in sites still largely unknown. El Generador, a Basque tourism provider and host of the International Industrial Tourism Fair B-Industrial, develops ideas and solutions in the travel and cultural

of very different events throughout the region from 1 to 11 September. A tour of the "Christine" slate mine in Willingen, for example, takes visitors into the underground history of regional mining, while [...] structures atop the barrage of the Eder reservoir. A fascinating trail that starts at Kassel City Museum illustrates why the city's greater area is a centre of mechanical engineering today. How, apart from

century the area has produced glasses on a large scale. In a beautiful new building of glass, the museum explains the technologies for making frames and the history of the workers in this labour-intensive [...] vocational training is also explored, from the first industrial college in the 19th century to the National Optical College. The fashion of French eyewear manufacturers is presented through an extensive

pigments. The technical history of production is placed in its local and international economic and cultural context. The museum offers guided tours and workshops where visitors can learn about colours