During the British Industrial Revolution Jedediah Strutt was among the fathers of the factory system. After making innovations in knitting stockings he worked with Richard Arkwright to build the first [...] first water-powered cotton-spinning factories. Industrial settlements associated with him are inscribed in the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage site. He grew up in Derbyshire in central England, where his [...] apprenticed to a wheelwright at the age of 14 and later began his own business as a wheelwright. After he married and inherited a farm from his uncle at the age of around 28 he began stocking knitting and

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

is the official working group of volunteers, trainees, students, interns, postgraduates and young professionals in their first four years of employment. This category of membership provides a platform [...] to offer advice and support for a dynamic exchange of ideas and experiences. Regular roundtable discussions are held for YP members on a variety of topics, with open discussion. A new format is 'My day [...] day at work', where ERIH site staff present their day-to-day work and raise interest in industrial heritage as a potential career option. Young Professionals also attend ERIH Board meetings as advisors

centre of supra-regional long-distance trade. This was one of the reasons why the city became the industrial heart of Bavaria at the beginning of the 19th century. This was aided by the construction of Germany's [...] production of bicycles and motorcycles, were also leading in Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Museum of Industrial Culture, housed in a former screw factory from the 1920s, shows the history of ind [...] to life. Visitors of all ages are invited to try their hand at some of the demonstrations. The Bicycle Collection and Motorbike Museum bring to life Nuremberg's heyday as a centre of two-wheeler production:

ERIH is contributing to the costs of these initial contact visits with a maximum of 750 euros per person and 1,500 euros per organisation (member), up to a total of 3,000 euros per exchange. This covers [...] members / organisations) the opportunity to visit similar sites in other countries as part of the "Twinning of Sites" project, to exchange experience and knowledge, develop new project ideas and make long-term [...] than two sites. Participation requires at least three years of membership in the ERIH association. Partnerships should address at least one of the following topics: education, improving future work opp

municipal museum, the Jana Pazdura Nature and Technological Museum, that takes its name from the pioneer of Industrial Archaeology in Poland who was above all the historian of the Starapolski Industrial Region [...] remains of the ironworks the museum also displays the history of the Star Truck Co that has produced heavy motor vehicles in Starachowice since 1948. The museum also interprets the ecology of the park [...] Starachowice, 32 km north-east of Kielce, was one of the key sites in the development in the early 19th century of the Starapolski Industrial Region by Stanislaw Staszic (1755-1826). Charcoal-fired blast

Laakirchen Museum of Papermaking and Print can see its replica in action. The technical relic is part of an exciting trip exploring the history of paper production - from the forerunners of paper to the [...] by making their own hand-made paper as in pre-industrial times. The printing museum, showcasing machines that are still functional, offers the opportunity of operating a toggle press dating from 1878, while [...] audiovisual interpretation and tells, among other things, the story of the factory workers. A special museum deals with the history of local fire brigades, and the "ALFA" convention centre houses small

mineralagical museum established by the Lavrion Studies Society (EMEL) in 1986 commemorates the work of the geologist and mining engineer A. Kordellas (1863-1909). The museum, in a building of 1873 built [...] built by the Greek company, that was part of an ore-washing complex, displays 115 different metals, along with evidence of industrial processes, mining tools, lamps, lead ingots and slag specimens. Housing [...] The lead and silver mines of Lavrion, on the Greek mainland south of Athens, were important in classical antiquity and in more recent centuries, and were worked in the 19th century by a Greek and a French

life in the rough industrial region and port town. The Kymenlaakso Museum also maintains the art collections. The museum is situated in the same building with the Maritime Museum of Finland . After World [...] n Finland has one of the biggest industrial forestry clusters in Europe. The museums in Vellamo offer means for viewing one’s own life, livelihood and family as part of the course of history. They do not [...] The Kymenlaakso Museum operates in the Maritime Centre Vellamo in the Old Port of Kotka. The Museum tells stories about life and everyday toil in the border region, about the river and the sea as well

Leonardo da Vinci Museum is located in a former convent, and covers many aspects of the history of science and technology, apart from the industrial history of Milan. It includes a reconstruction of a 17th century [...] Milan is the industrial and commercial capital of Italy, and for centuries has been one of the most important manufacturing centres in Europe, celebrated for textiles, motor cars, electrical engineer and [...] century foundry, a substantial collection of locomotives, including a replica of the Bayard, made in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the first steam locomotive to work in Italy, and an early electric locomotive

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

complex of culture, science and services of an international standing in Tampere. Vapriikki opened to the public in 1996, and the building was fully ready as a museum in 2000. The total floor area of the museum [...] including locomotives, turbines and damask cloths of linen, and employed thousands of people. The textile production ended in the 1970s, and industrial use of the last buildings by the rapids ceased in the [...] was built in the 1910s–1920s. The industrial history of the Tampella area began in the 1840s with a small blast furnace. In 1856, Gustaf August Wasastjerna, the owner of the Seinäjoki iron works, founded

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

exceptional overlap of ancient and industrial traces, particularly evident in the museum of classical artworks housed in one of the papermill buildings, as marked by the tracks of the mine carts here preserved [...] The Sanctuary of Hercules the Victor is a unique monumental complex in the medieval centre of Tivoli, 30 km northeast of Rome, that combines classical and industrial archaeology. The Sanctuary was built [...] power plant in the world capable of transmitting current at a distance. All these factories used the strenght of water, identity element of technological progress and source of fascination for Grand Tour travellers

the Spéos School of Photography, which has been awarded the "Maisons des Illustres" label by the French Ministry of Culture, under the patronage of the Académie des Sciences and the Académie des Beaux-Arts [...] taken by the inventor of photography himself: Nicéphore Niépce. Among other things, the House houses the oldest photographic workshop and laboratory in existence today. This world heritage is preserved by the

until the city of Elmshorn acquired it in 1988 for an industrial museum. The ground floor shows the history of cotton textiles, communications, the local leather industry and the craft of processing fish [...] The museum presents the history of industry, technology and everyday life in Schleswig-Holstein. Elmshorn became an important industrial centre in the nineteenth century, especially for the food industries [...] first floor are displays of shipbuilding, flour milling and shoemaking. The second floor has displays of domestic equipment, the Carstens stoneware factory and the speciality of preparing goods to supply

one of the pioneers of the heritage railway movement in the United Kingdom, which influenced the preservation of historic lines across Europe. He was the son of Francis Pegler, managing director of the [...] the project to preserve the Festiniog Railway in North Wales. He cleared the debts of the existing company, was chairman of the new company set up to work the line from 1954, and remained in touch will the [...] government-backed tour of the United States intended to promote British business. The train progressed from coast to coast but completed the tour in San Francisco in 1971 with a burden of debts. The new Co

The MIK Osnabrück Museum of Industrial Culture is located on the Piesberg in the UNESCO Nature and Geopark TERRA.vita. Sandstone and coal have been quarried on the Piesberg since early modern times. A [...] routes. From the second half of the 19th century onwards, coal was mined industrially in underground mines, but due to problems with water drainage, mining ceased in 1898. The museum opened in 1994 in the Piesberg [...] focuses on the interplay between man, nature and the economy. It tells the social and economic history of the region and illustrates the profound changes that industrialisation has brought to society, culture

set against a spectacular industrial scenery. Exciting exhibitions and guided tours at ERIH locations include "Steel Giants in Twilight" at the Bochum-Dahlhausen Railway Museum, "Night Owls" with walk acts

is one Europe’s leading industrial cities and its diverse manufacturing enterprises played a significant part in the early Industrial Revolution. Thinktank is the city’s museum of science and industry, which [...] computing among other fields. The museum also holds natural science collections and examines environmental issues. One reason for the city’s reputation as the ‘workshop of the world’ was the innovative Boulton [...] Boulton and Watt engineering company. The museum features many items made by Boulton and Watt, including the Smethwick pumping engine of 1779 - the oldest working steam engine in the world. Key objects