the motorcar and made a pioneering motoring tour of Europe in 1906. Bakelite is commemorated in a museum in Somerset, England.

in working order and are used for charter and adventure trips. The vehicles on loan to the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne are regularly on display. The Olten depot is the central location for SBB

declined in the late twentieth century and the last mine in the region ceased working in 1989. The museum opened in 1982, and includes winding room and crushing plant. Displays illustrate the development

capital's iconic buildings like the Brandenburg Gate. And that's only one of the many stories told by the Museum and Park Rüdersdorf where visitors walk through 750 years of limestone mining and processing. Most

factory buildings, workers dwellings and a director’s mansion. In 2018, the Textile Museum, previously run by the National Museum, closed. However, visitors can still see the factory village, at least from the

ground continue to house a mining museum, which offers guided tours of the site and operates a 500-metre-long narrow-gauge railway line around the mine site. The museum's exhibition hall houses vehicles

of power by activating bigger or smaller gears. This factory, that much is clear, is not merely a museum, but a living place!

This historical sewage treatment plant is not an ordinary museum. Rather, it is an adventurous trip to the turn of the 19th century. Right next to the immense hall of the main building is the machine shop

Monday, visitors can test drive the first electric Fiat 500. It is provided by the 'Casa 500' car museum , which traces the history of the FIAT 500 in eight themed areas over 700 square metres and presents

zinc producer worldwide. The fascinating story of this rise is recounted in the Vieille Montagne Museum . Other centres of the zinc industry and zinc mining were located in Upper Silesia, South Tyrol and [...] 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

guided tours at ERIH locations include "Steel Giants in Twilight" at the Bochum-Dahlhausen Railway Museum, "Night Owls" with walk acts and a drone show at the The Henrichshütte Ironworks Hattingen, and "The

(1870-1937) Zillmann from Charlottenburg, which is also part of the ERIH network. Another ERIH site, the Museum of Metallurgy in Chorzów, provided the inspiration for Adolph von Menzel's socio-critical painting

1836-38. The Church is a unique example of how cast iron can be used for ornamental purposes. The Magma Museum preserves and presents the history of the regional iron industry from a technical, artistic and social

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

Defence gave up the site. Now it contains a huge variety of flora and fauna – not to speak of a unique museum. The first thing which visitors encounter is a multi-media installation where they can get their [...] metre reservoir for testing water bombs, can be best visited by taking a tour in a land train. The museum also contains a collection of guns and rifles.

handled it, and what people and goods did it carry? Questions like that make the Asturias Railway Museum such an exciting experience. Thus, any of the 140 rolling stock – including sixteen steam locomotives [...] locomotives, some of them still in working order – is presented by its own individual story. The museum is located at the old northern Train Station of Gijón, right next to the city's central beach Playa de [...] thoroughly transformed people's lives in Asturias and helped making Gijón the town it is today. The museum, featuring more than 1,000 exhibits, tells this story as if it happened the minute before.

irrigation systems and, of course, factories and power plants: 112 historic industrial sites and museums join the seventh "Days of Industrial Heritage on the Waterfront" for guided tours and demonstrations [...] with water always playing a major role. ERIH sites are also taking part, such as the German Salt Museum in Lüneburg or the Kaltehofe Elbe Island Water Art . Another exciting discovery is the Ewer "Margareta" [...] in the marshlands and that have only survived in this single building in the Rieck Haus open-air museum. The Rendsburg High Bridge provides a completely different highlight as it is one of the largest

The Immenhausen Glass Museum is holding a glass and porcelain flea market and is also hosting its current exhibition "Glass Art from Bohemia". At the Hessian Brown Coal Mining Museum in Borken, guided tours [...] Dozens of North Hessian museums, associations, initiatives and companies are involved. With guided tours, factory visits, exhibitions, hikes, experiments and open days, they breathe life into North Hessen's [...] using Hesse's largest lignite deposit to generate electrical energy exactly 100 years ago. The Thonet Museum in Frankenberg, which documents the transition from craftsmanship to industrial mass production in

For instance, fans of industrial heritage can explore historical fountains and (spa) baths on the guided tour "Schelche, Brunnen, Badespaß" ("Bowls, fountains, bathing fun") across Rüsselsheim. Its sc