At Riihimaki, north of Helsinki, is Finland’s national museum of the glass industry. The origins of the museum were in 1961 but in 1980 it relocated to a former industrial building. This began in 1914 [...] displays of the museum were created by the leading designer Tapio Wirkkala. The focus of the museum is on the three centuries of the glass industry in Finland. The ground floor presents 4,000 years of glass [...] production and explains methods of glassblowing, machine manufacturing and decoration. Upstairs, the glass collection celebrates Finnish design. There are temporary exhibitions of historical collections and

adapted for a variety of purposes, but the former dyeshop of the cotton mill houses Työväenmuseo Werstas - the Finnish Labour Museum. The Museum tells the over two-hundred-year-old story of Tampere’s industry [...] the largest industrial city in the country, “the Manchester of Finland”. Impressive museum artefacts and photographs introduce visitors to the industrial enterprises and factory workers of Tampere. A large [...] The pioneer of large-scale manufacturing in the Finnish city of Tampere was the Scot James Finlayson (1771-1852) who, after a spell working in St Petersburg, established an engineering shop in the early

climate change, working conditions, accessibility, digitalisation and the design of industrial heritage. On behalf of the ERIH General Assembly, the Executive Board has developed a new membership category [...] The " ERIH Young Professionals' Network " was created at the suggestion of participants in the Industrial Heritage Summer School . It is aimed at young people, particularly students, but also young pr [...] postgraduates and anyone in the first five years of their professional career. The approach is interdisciplinary. All disciplines relevant to industrial heritage are welcome, such as architecture and urban

historian and to found a museum of working class life in the town of his birth. Karl Flanner was born in Flugfeld, a working class quarter of the industrial city of Wiener Neustadt, the son of a leather worker [...] he was one of the founding trustees of the Industrieviertel-Museum (Industrial District Museum) in the city and served as its director. The museum’s displays include one that tells the story of slave labour [...] labour under the Nazi regime, and of its links with factories in Wiener Neustadt. Karl Flanner was a member of the board of trustees of DÖW, the Vienna-based documentation centre for the resistance movement

allow visitors to easily check in and out on site. If you plan well, you can soak up a lot of industrial heritage at former blast furnaces, collieries, breweries and gasometers from Waltrop to Hagen and [...] the foundry and, as a finale, provide a music parade to explore the opulent oeuvre of the Beatles. Bochum's railway museum is focusing on a slower pace this year, combining beer garden ambience with illuminated [...] The programme pairs brightly illuminated industrial monuments with a rich and diverse cultural programme featuring music, lectures, guided tours and rather offbeat events such as longboard dancing in the

The main exhibition of the Forssa Museum, the City of Colourful Cloth, tells the story of Forssa community. Museum Gallery Moletti, an atmospheric little gallery, focuses on contemporary and textile art [...] art. Forssa Museum was the Museum of the Year 2014 in Finland and a nominee for the Emya prize in 2015. In 2021, the museum opens a new site Pattern Centre, dedicated to printed fabric design. The large [...] hundreds of thousands of different patterns were produced. As the industry gradually waned, the factory properties were converted to other uses and the extensive archives were transferred to the museum. The

director who made two documentaries that are of importance to students of industrial history. He had an individualistic style that fits into no particular school of film-making. Born at Fougeres, he did several [...] steelworks (on the scale of the preserved works at Völklingen), in the Saar. It was intended as a celebration of Guy Monnet’s plan for the modernisation of French industry as part of the European Coal and [...] furnaces, and some of the accidents that from time to time kill or disable the workers. The following year Franju made Hotel des Invalides, an ironic critique of France’s principal military museum. He directed

and is now one of the museum's outstanding exhibits. On demonstration days, it drives the transmission system of several reconstructed historic workshops with their machines and tools: one of the largest [...] kilometres west of Siegen, is known for its half-timbered houses in the old town. The town has a long industrial history, and in 1991, 25 people got together and founded the ‘Friends of Historic Vehicles [...] they acquired the half-timbered hall of a former sawmill and rebuilt it together with a separate engine house and a replica of a Siegen fire engine house on the site of a glue factory that was demolished

ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF GEORGIA Listen The peaks of the Caucasus to the north; the Black Sea to the west and the Caspian Sea nearby to the east: for thousands of years, Georgia has been at the crossroads [...] programme of industrialization. The use of water power began in 1927 with the hydroelectric plant in Avchala, near Tbilisi; the plant on the Rioni River near the expanding industrial city of Kutaisi went [...] In order to expand the transportation of crude oil from Baku – now part of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Azerbaijan – the government approved construction of a further pipeline to Batumi in 1930. A

on the board of the new federal association as the representative of the ERIH member LVR Industrial Museum . Other members of the ERIH network, including LWL Museums of Industrieal Heritage , the Brand [...] Leader, Industrial Heritage RVR, Member), Dr Kirsten Baumann (Director LWL-Museums of Industrial Heritage, 1st Chairwoman), Dr Walter Hauser (ERIH President and Director LVR Industrial Museum, Member) [...] er (Head of LWL Culture Dept.), Marius Krohn (Director of Brandenburg/Havel Industrial Museum, Treasurer), Anja Nixdorf-Munkwitz (Chair of the Saxony State Association for Industrial Heritage, Member)

population of almost 200 and an exciting industrial museum. Also William Lever (1851-1925) provides adequate housing and social security for the workforce of his soap factory. The Port Sunlight Museum reveals [...] inventor of the garden city. Architectural elements such as the harnessing of sunlight and the low-traffic location of houses on cul-de-sacs are trendsetting for the time. The European scale of working-class [...] g examples of European company housing include the Cité Ouvrière in Mulhouse, Alsace, and the Belgian ERIH Anchor Point and World Heritage Site Grand Hornu . In Italy, the MuCa - Museum of the Shipbuilding

offering exciting guided tours of the quarter. A number of further ERIH sites each shed light on specific aspects of Berlin's industrial history. The Herzberge Boiler House Museum , for example, represents [...] Berlin Airlift era - is one of the largest museums of its kind in Europe and interlinks Berlin's rapid technological and industrial history with its impact on urban life. A particular focus is on transport [...] numerous aircraft. In contrast, the second Anchor Point looks into one of the darkest chapters of German (industrial) history: the Nazi system of forced labour, based on large-scale criminal enslavement and racist

ensemble of historic industrial plants in the midst of a spectacular landscape unfolds at the Geomineral, Historical and Environmental Park of Sardinia in Italy. It was here, in the mines of Montevecchio [...] 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 industry [...] one of the oldest metal-processing plants in the city and was forced to close almost 130 years later, partly because of air and soil pollution. Today, the site is a location of the LVR Industrial Museum

right from the time of its construction. As a modern site of industrial heritage, it provides not only architectural highlights but also an authentic insight into the hard labour of the miners. Complementing [...] workflow of a blast furnace plant that August Thyssen had built in Duisburg's Meiderich district from 1901. One of the distinguishing features of this ERIH Anchor Point is the transformation of the massive [...] from the 40-metre coal bunker is one of the highlights of a visit. The ERIH member Ewald Mine | Hoheward Landscape Park has also undergone profound changes: one of the Ruhr region's most productive collieries

another attraction of the Luxembourg mining and steelmaking district: the coexistence of industrial heritage and nature worth protecting. Highlight of the ERIH Anchor Point National Museum of Iron Ore Mines [...] Minette, the lingo of French miners for the bright red iron ores in Lorraine and Luxembourg, have lent their name to "De Minett" industrial landscape in the very south of the Grand Duchy. This is where [...] where the heart of Luxembourg's coal and steel industry throbbed for decades, making the small country in the early 20th century one of the world's ten largest producers of pig iron and iron ore and, in 1951

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 from the beginning of the 20th century, which are [...] the place the reputation of a "town of millionaires". Where there is a lot of hard work, there is beer. The ERIH site Radegast brewery in Nošovice, just 16 kilometres south-east of Ostrava, benefited in its [...] the "Iron Heart of the Republic": the vast industrial complex and ERIH Anchor Point Dolní Vítkovice in Ostrava, the third largest city in the country, which in turn constitutes the centre of this Czech industrial

world’ and the flagship of an industrial region in transition. With the completion of Central Shaft XII in 1932, one of the most efficient coal mines in the world entered the stage of the Ruhr region. Not [...] A trip to the roof of the former gas storage of Gutehoffnungshütte (GHH) offers a sweeping view over the Ruhr area and clearly shows how much the region has developed over decades of structural transition [...] official festival venue of the internationally renowned RuhrTriennale arts and culture programme. Sheer nostalgia abounds at the Bochum Railway Museum . Here, on the vast grounds of the former Dahlhausen

specialising in the luxury product of lead crystal, and witness England as a pioneer of early industrial mass production. Some of the museums focus on the hard working conditions of glassblowers, smelters, glass [...] - the art of glassmaking spread across the continent by the end of the 16th century. One of the key criteria for establishing a glassmaking site is the availability of sufficient quantities of firewood [...] regarded as one of the best-preserved glassworks in Europe, and the Immenhausen Glass Museum . The very beginning of post-antique European glass production is marked by the Venetian island of Murano, from

the industrial museum is that it tells the story of the light factory consistently through the eyes of the people who worked there. Thanks to its careful restoration, it is now considered a gem of Spanish [...] 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 [...] Spanish industrial heritage. The National Railway Museum at Lousado , Portugal, also boasts a reputation as a precious relic of Portuguese railway history. The extensive rolling stock with exhibits ranging

emerging industrial city of Łódź, the ‘White Factory’ was the first fully-fledged textile mill in Poland. The site is now home to the Central Museum of Textiles and is considered one of the country's most impressive [...] ion into one of Europe's most significant hubs of (industrial) culture, home to a Science & Technology Center and the National Center for Film Culture, among other things. Another icon of the emerging [...] impressive monuments of industrial architecture. With its extensive range of machinery and several major textile collections, it provides a detailed insight into 200 years of everyday working life and textile