involved in various other ERIH projects. Other topics discussed at the PMG meeting included the call for proposals for a follow-up event to ‘WORK it OUT’ and preparations for the ERIH Annual Conference 2025 [...] 2025 in Chemnitz, to which the ERIH YPs will once again contribute their own workshop. The steering group was hosted by the ERIH Anchor Point National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia in Terrassa [...] and industry knowledge among museum experts, site operators and former employees. This is were the ERIH Young Professionals (YP) network, established two years ago, comes in. Jule Lux (6th from left, squatting)
As a young man Robert Stephenson worked closely with his father, the giant of railway history George Stephenson . Later, he became one of the greatest civil and mechanical engineers of the 19th centur
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Ernst Karl Abbe was a German physicist who, in partnership with Carl Zeiss , revolutionised the manufacture of optical glass and microscopes. He and became head of the Carl Zeiss company, one of the w
ian Tourism' highlights the evidence of the region's rich industrial and technical history on the ERIH Regional Route 'TECHNOTRASA'. The virtual route leads to more than 30 technical objects connected
other countries in the ERIH network. Dr Hauser sits 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 [...] 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 one year later, at ERIH Anchor Point [...] association's board. ‘As ERIH community, we look forward to working together and creating meaningful synergies,’ stated Dr Hauser. The inaugural meeting was followed by the annual ERIH Germany Dialogue, a national
2023 founded network of ERIH Young Professionals. Interest in their exchange of ideas at regular round tables is growing, as the increasing number of members indicates. Other ERIH activities like the “European [...] debate. Furthermore, the successful ‘ERIH on Tour’ programme will be continued. Ongoing tasks remain the topics of digitisation and sustainability. To this end, ERIH is in constant dialogue with the Network [...] ons (NEMO) and the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe. Further cooperation is being sought. ERIH members will benefit from new digital platforms that facilitate the exchange of practical experience
along with a true-to-life ‘tunnel experience’ and famous rail travellers on the ‘Train of Destinies’. ERIH aricles in 'Industriekultur' (de): Einst Strom und Wärme, heute Wissen. Das Kulturzentrum EC1 in Lódź
ON THE DARK SIDES OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: NAZI AND OTHER FORCED LABOUR Listen Forced labour is difficult to distinguish from other forms of economic exploitation. In pre-industrial times, it can
many as 3 Anchor Points. In 2019, ERIH obtained the certification of the Cultural Route of the Council of Europe, which was confirmed by recertification in June 2023. ERIH Conference 2024 [...] questions we will jointly seek answers to when meeting in Łódź – says Dr. Adam Hajduga, Vice President of ERIH . During the three days of the event, nearly 100 participants from several European countries will [...] processes - both architectural and social - using our institution as the example. And during the ERIH conference, we will organize an audiovisual panel, debating the presence of film techniques in po
impressive spatial effect, albeit horizontal, is achieved by the Hall of the Century Bochum . Today's ERIH site made its glamorous debut in 1902 at the Düsseldorf Industry and Trade Exhibition. Decorated with [...] innovative enough for Kaiser Wilhelm II to attend the inauguration ceremony in 1899 in person. Today, the ERIH Anchor Point offers vivid insights into inland shipping and the canal system of the last 100 years [...] mines in the world entered the stage of the Ruhr region. Not long after its demise in 1986, today's ERIH Anchor Point began its unprecedented transformation into what is now one of the key monuments of
Once again, the Summer School was jointly hosted by ERIH, the Berlin Centre for Industrial Heritage (bzi) and the University of Applied Sciences (HTW) Berlin. The participants came from a wide range of [...] students such a fruitful experience and enables the results of the Summer School to be applied in ERIH's work. This year, interesting ideas emerged for a more targeted way of communicating. These include [...] to their natural state – a project that is likely to underpin one of the workshops at this year's ERIH Annual Conference, deals. Another Summer School project group explored ways to raise awareness among
region and offers several routes to explore the site. Today, the Henrichshütte is just as much an ERIH Anchor Point as the Zollern Colliery , which was built between 1898 and 1904. The magnificent model [...] 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 former industrial site into a unique landscape park [...] Europe's largest indoor diving centre and many other attractions. The Hansa Coking Plant , another ERIH site, is representative of the many large-scale facilities constructed throughout the Ruhr region
ERIH YOUNG PROFESSIONALS NETWORK Listen ERIH Young Professionals (YP) is the official working group of volunteers, trainees, students, interns, postgraduates and young professionals in their first four [...] category of membership provides a platform for young ERIH members to share interests and challenges. We also want to encourage them to get involved in ERIH activities and to express their (young) perspectives [...] 'My 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
Two of the winners, both in the category "Conservation and Adaptive Reuse", are ERIH sites: Ignacy Historic Mine in Rybnik, Poland : Decay and demolition of one of the oldest mines in the country after [...] Silesia, usually by converting them into museums. Two of the five museums currently being run are ERIH members: the Anchor Point Railway Museum of Silesia in Jaworzyna Śląska and the Walcownia zinc rolling [...] Choice Award. The winner of latter will be publicly voted for online – a great opportunity for the ERIH community to promote one of the four award winners presented above and thus to boost industrial heritage
up when we initiate and implement sustainability processes? We want to explore this question at the ERIH Annual Conference 2024. How do we move from "buzzwords" to concrete activities at the sites? Therefore
In its 15th year, INDUSTRIADA boasts an impressive success story: almost 950,000 participants have already visited the festival, running up to roughly 5,000 events at 46 venues in 29 cities in total.
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 Duisburg-Nord [...] "forbidden" places that reveal some of their secrets on the "Night of Industrial Heritage". For example, ERIH member Ewald Future Site in Herten offers access to extraordinary "lost places": guests are allowed [...] Hattingen also opens its doors 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
