large transport museum at Ferlach in the south of Austria. It is one of a network of heritage projects by the non-profit organisation Die Nostalgiebahnen in Kärnten (Nostalgia Railways of Corinthia). The [...] The many exhibits are housed in an open-plan exhibition space of 4,700 square metres in a former factory building. They represent most modes of transport in Austria, including horse carriages, bicycles, trams [...] aeroplanes. All kinds of specialist vehicles are included, such as fire engines, rescue vehicles, police cars, buses, lorries, vans and tractors. The motorcars and motorbikes range from some of the earliest made

Along with the re-certification, the Governing Board of the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe (EPA) issued recommendations to provide guidelines for ERIH until its [...] , slavery heritage linked to industrialisation, etc. Enhance the strategic development of tourism through closer cooperation between National Coordinators and the ERIH Board. The creation of specific a [...] Cultural (Industrial) Tourism is suggested. ERIH President Professor Dr Meinrad Grewenig and Board Member Peter Backes presented the ERIH network to the EPA Governing Board in Luxembourg in May as part of the

Ironworks ensemble is the result of over 330 years of iron and paper industry. In 1689, Creutz was granted the privilege of building an ironworks by a mining college. At the turn of the 20th century, wood processing [...] alongside iron production, first in the form of a sawmill and later in various forms of paper processing. The history of Kauttua from the establishment of the ironworks village to the present day is presented [...] and Villa Aalto. The Ironworks have been designated as a built cultural heritage site of national significance by the Finnish Heritage Agency.

interested in contributing to this question – even from outside the industrial heritage community – are cordially invited to submit an abstract of their presentation in English to the ERIH Secretariat by 23 June

The city of Naoussa was called the Manchester of the Balkans in the second half of the 19th century as the first city of northern Greece to industrialise. Its cotton spinning and weaving mills sold products [...] products across the Ottoman Empire and beyond. The Industrial Heritage Centre is housed in a former woollen factory built in 1907. Under the name ERIA it produced fabric for army uniforms until 1933. The [...] and the boiler room and the 36-m chimney survive. The exhibition History Threads presents the history of the city's textile industry. Spinning and weaving machines are displayed alongside social material

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

built in 1909 for use on a colliery line and a fleet of passenger coaches from the 1950s. Films and displays explore how trains work and the impact of coal and electricity. On scheduled days, visitors can [...] can take a ride on a 1950s passenger steam train or heritage diesel locomotives, which run from the museum to Percy Main. [...] ideas that helped spread railways and locomotives across the world. The Stephenson Steam Railway Museum celebrates their achievements. It is located on a standard-gauge, single-track railway that runs

from a wide range of fields related to the management of industrial heritage and infrastructure, local development and tourism, community social engagement, urban regeneration, and education and culture [...] resources. This makes the industrial legacy highly appropriate as an experimental environment for new jobs, tourism, leisure, new forms of production and work, and new ways of life. We invite speakers from [...] focus on local and regional projects, as it is particularly on this level that a high degree of participation of the respective communities can be achieved. That said, industrialisation provides excellent

The "Sistine Chapel" of mining heritage lies 50 metres below the surface of Almadén: the gallery of San Andrés. Visitors of the Mining Park are able to reach it by taking a miner's cage down into the former [...] historical modes of extraction; and the mercury museum in a warehouse of 1941 that shows the scientific significance of mercury by offering interactive experiments. Even the Miners’ Hospital of 1752 partly [...] former cinnabar mine of the village. Tunnels and drifts that are centuries old lead them to a huge domed hall, 13 metres high, with the reconstruction of a majestic wooden horse-gin in its centre. Once

bibliographic heritage related to the history of the Olivetti Company and the Olivetti family. This unique collection consists of millions of documents, letters, books, magazines, posters, drawings, p [...] Piedmont and the Aosta Valley of the Ministry of Cultural and Environmental Heritage. The Association is committed to collecting, organizing, preserving, studying, and promoting the extensive documentary and [...] The Olivetti Historical Archive was founded in 1986 at the initiative of Paolo Mancinelli, then Secretary General of Olivetti, in collaboration with the Adriano Olivetti Foundation. On March 12, 1998,

The ENTER Museum takes its name from the 'Enter' key on a computer keyboard and the English word for 'enter'. It is a museum of computers and consumer electronics that was created from private collections [...] In 2023, the museum moved into a new building in Derendingen to the east of Solothurn, where, in addition to the exhibition, an academy and meeting zone dedicated to the history and future of technology [...] was set up with the aim of preserving cultural heritage and inspiring young people for technical professions. In over 10,000 square metres of interactive exhibition space, visitors can immerse themselves

Macclesfield in Cheshire. The Derby Silk Mill is a museum on the site of the Lombe brothers’ mill. It is part of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage site. [...] Lombe’s industrial espionage in Italy. He died aged only 29, possibly murdered for stealing trade secrets. The Lombe brothers came from a family of wool and silk weavers at Norfolk in the east of England [...] Italy, where aspects of the factory system were pioneered in the seventeenth century. In 1714, with money from his older brother Thomas, John Lombe went to Piedmont in the Kingdom of Sardinia. He visited

1972. The last owner, François Laurent, worked with an association of enthusiasts to save the complex as a monument to industrial heritage. It opened for visitors in 2004. The factory is in an attractive [...] mainly to Paris. A large workshop built of timber with a tile roof has long benches beneath windows for working on the fine terracotta objects, many examples of which are displayed. Several presses for

The Museum Wäschefabrik (linen wear factory museum) at Bielefeld is one of the relatively few places at which the heritage of the manufacture of clothing (as distinct from the production of fabrics) is [...] and reels of thread. They can also learn of the fate of Hugo Juhl’s family. In 1933, fearing the onset of persecution of the Jews, Juhl’s daughter Hanna (b 1913) who was married to Fritz Bender, fled to [...] preservation of the factory. A museum was opened in the building in 1997. Visitors can see how clothing was made in the mid-twentieth century in rooms filled with ranks of sewing machines, rolls of fabric and

as an industrial dinosaur. It extends over an area of 600,000 square metres and exemplifies the combined power of more than 100 years of iron and steel manufacturing. It was the first industrial monument [...] the top of the 30 metre high charging platform. Here, where the blast furnace was once charged with coke and ore, you can get the best view of the mill and the surrounding industrial landscape of the Saar [...] inscribed into the United Nations list of World Cultural Heritage Sites. No wonder it is packed with visitors. Here expert guides will take you on a tour through the labyrinths of blast furnaces and air heaters

streets of the only post-industrial settlement in Europe that has been 95% preserved. Żyrardów, Poland’s former flax capital, delights visitors with the richness unexpected in such a small town of its industrial [...] the villa of Karl Dittrich, Jr. located in the ‘most beautiful park of Mazovia’; and the renovated linen factory, where the past meets the present. The more than 200 historic buildings of this factory [...] rich cultural heritage. The many concerts, exhibitions, and theater performances offer something for everyone, no matter what his interests or moods. Testifying to the glorious history of the city are many

the world. The mass processing of cotton had begun. Today the Cromford Mill is a recognised World Heritage Site. The same goes for all the other remaining early industrial factories in the valley. Their [...] witness to the start of a new era. This had a lot to do with inventions and factories and especially with the people who worked in the factories. The major burden of the Industrial Revolution – here and [...] Richard Arkwright, a former wigmaker, recognised this fact and promptly invented a hitherto unheard of machine: the water frame. It could spin fine yarn in a way which only hand driven spinning wheels had

take part. All over Europe, on the day of the event at 3 pm, dancing will take place in front of, in and even on imposing industrial sites, making industrial heritage an attractive place to experience. The [...] experience industrial culture and its sites and discover their significance for their own past, their relevance for the present and their potential for the future. Of course, the young at heart of all ages [...] the project further. "WORK it OUT" has been awarded the Best Practices Award 2022 of the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe "WORK it OUT" 2024 Listen This year's 'WORK it OUT' dance event took place

Ivrea is a town 56 km north of Turin, whose main industry for much of the twentieth century was the manufacture of office equipment by Olivetti, founded in 1908 by the electrical engineer Camillo Olivetti [...] In 2018 Ivrea was inscribed in the Unesco World Heritage list as an "industrial city of the 20th century, developed as the testing ground for Olivetti. It comprises a large factory and buildings designed [...] ensemble reflects the ideas of the Community Movement (Movimento Comunità). A model social project, Ivrea expresses a modern vision of the relationship between industrial production and architecture."

L'Aventure, an association dedicated to the heritage of the car makers DS, Peugeot and Citroën. It is situated near Le Bourget airport north of Paris in a modern building of 6,500 m² – appropriately on the Boulevard [...] Boulevard André Citroën, which is named after the founder of the Citroën company in 1919. On display are some 300 vehicles, most of which are in working order – the largest Citroën collection in the world [...] extends from the Type ‘A’s after the First World War to recent vehicles and includes many examples of the influential 2CV and DS ranges. The cars are arranged by decade into sports cars, adventure cars