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 Museumof 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 ofindustrial 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
- Post-industrialheritage is an element of our city's DNA and our most important marketing distinguishing feature - says Hanna Zdanowska, Mayor of the City of Łódź - 200 years of the history of industrial [...] constantly combine both of these heritages. The European Route ofIndustrialHeritage (ERIH) is co-created by post-industrial sites from 28 European countries. The route includes over 2,300 sites, and the association [...] learn about the industrialheritageof Łódź, visiting, among others, the Central Textile Museum, Manufaktura Complex, Księży Młyn (Priest Mill Complex) and Monopolis. The main part of the event will take
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
for the Protection of Silesian IndustrialHeritage , which was established in 2007. Its main activity is the safeguarding of selected technical cultural monuments characteristic of Silesia, usually by [...] by converting them into museums. Two of the five museums currently being run are ERIH members: the Anchor Point Railway Museumof Silesia in Jaworzyna Śląska and the Walcownia zinc rolling mill in Katowice [...] thereby marking, along with other industrial monuments in the region, the start of mass production and use of iron and steel. It was not until 2005, after 18 years of decay, that the first restoration
different regions of Wales, including the ERIH Anchor Points National Waterfront Museum in Swansea, World Heritage Big Pit National Coal Museum in Blaenavon and National Slate Museum World Heritage Site in Llanberis [...] route "Valleys that changed the World". The potential of ERIH in supporting its members was the subject of the lecture "Industrialheritage - the power of networking" by ERIH Vice-President Dr Adam Hajduga [...] Stephen Barlow, Head of Engagement at the National Lottery's Heritage Fund Wales, and Steph Mastoris, Head ofMuseums at Amgueddfa Cymru, a charity that incorporates seven national museums and a collections
the industrialmuseum 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. Museumof Energy in Ponferrada, Spain, symbolises a new, promising technology: light as first application in the history ofindustrial power generation. Built in 1919, the thermal power [...] Spanish industrialheritage. 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
pumping stations, irrigation systems and, of course, factories and power plants: 112 historic industrial sites and museums join the seventh "Days ofIndustrialHeritage on the Waterfront" for guided tours and [...] new entry in the programme of this year's industrialheritage festival. These few examples reveal the diversity of the attractions on offer, covering a wide range of activities for technophiles, culture [...] stands for hundreds of wind-powered versions of its kind that once existed in the marshlands and that have only survived in this single building in the Rieck Haus open-air museum. The Rendsburg High Bridge
weighing less than 600 kilograms? Three ERIH sites also feature in the IndustrialHeritage Days of Northern Hesse. The Immenhausen Glass Museum is holding a glass and porcelain flea market and is also hosting [...] Hessen's industrialheritage. As always, the factory tours of operating companies are well booked. What is the process for getting mineral water from the well into the bottle and beer from Hessen's first [...] Thonet Museum in Frankenberg, which documents the transition from craftsmanship to industrial mass production in the 19th century, draws visitors to its factory outlet with a large selection of Thonet
For instance, fans ofindustrialheritage can explore historical fountains and (spa) baths on the guided tour "Schelche, Brunnen, Badespaß" ("Bowls, fountains, bathing fun") across Rüsselsheim. Its scope [...] scope ranges from the city's supply with drinking water hundreds of years ago to the construction of ornate fountains and the building of the municipal sanitary infrastructure to current daily consumption [...] learn about historical and modern railways and waterways, for example on the guided tour of the Bavarian port of Aschaffenburg entitled "Wasserstraße & Schiene - Infrastrukturen für umweltfreundlichere
a general idea of Leipzig's industrialheritage and its interconnections is to book a guided tour on a historic e-carriage. Along the way, the tour covers everything from the industrial pioneer Dr Carl [...] solid briquettes are all part of the exciting guided tour. The Museumof Printing Arts , on the other hand, revives several centuries of printing and media history with some 100 fully functional machines [...] open their doors for a close-up look behind the scenes. Since Leipzig's industrialheritage is part of Central Germany, some of the event venues are located in Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. As always,
the source material from which the industrialheritage in Middle Hesse emerged: iron. Of particular importance for the region's industrial development is Leica, one of the leading companies in the optical [...] Tradition and Innovation" at the Ernst Leitz Museum in Wetzlar. The Middle Hesse IndustrialHeritage Days were initiated by the Middle Hesse IndustrialHeritage Working Group, which is celebrating its tenth [...] century, and the 1910 pumping station with its historic water trail are examples of the vibrant industrialheritageof Central Hesse. Another example is the smelting and forging day at the Fortuna visitor
theme of this year's edition of the festival is "Art (in) Industry". Indeed, INDUSTIRADA draws many exciting connections between the two sectors. One of the outstanding architectural achievements of the [...] which is also part of the ERIH network. Another ERIH site, the Museumof Metallurgy in Chorzów, provided the inspiration for Adolph von Menzel's socio-critical painting "The Iron Rolling Mill", completed [...] completed in 1875, which, with its realistic depiction of the hardships of this kind of work, questions the unlimited faith in technical progress. Representing industry serving art is the Artistic Casting Department
support the teams of the various industrial monuments and museums in their work and helps to increase public interest in industrialheritage. Visits to a number of member sites were also part of the agenda. [...] the Asturian Museumof the Steel Industry in Langreo, the Samuño Valley Mining Ecomuseum in Ciaño and, of course, the two Anchor Points of the Regional Route, the Asturian Railway Museum in Gijón and the [...] meetings cannot provide this kind of support. In Asturias, talks were held with the Deputy Minister of Tourism Graciela Blanco Rodríguez, Cristina Álvarez, Solis Head of the Tourism Department and Langreos´
the historic pithead of Fürst Leopold in Dorsten. Another highlight of ExtraSchicht are the "forbidden" places that reveal some of their secrets on the "Night ofIndustrialHeritage". For example, ERIH [...] stunning light effects 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 [...] locked rooms of the Ewald mine. The Henrichshütte Ironworks in Hattingen also opens its doors for night-time explorers. Music attractions - such as "Back to the 80s" at ERIH Anchor Point LWL-Museum Zollern
experiences of regeneration projects carried out through the creation ofindustrialheritage routes. Alessio Zoeddu mentioned the "public history" routes, which offer visitors a fresco of the former Bologna [...] project on production and labour sites as cultural heritage through memories, interviews and company stories, collected by the MuseumofIndustrialHeritage . Another example was provided by René Capovin from [...] evolution of places and build a "sensitive city". Environmental regeneration is certainly one of the features of the "Open Your Mine" project presented by Commissioner Elisabetta Castelli of the Geomining
Sustainable educational work, the re-use ofindustrial sites (heritage conservation is climate protection), new blood in cultural volunteering and soft tourism are just some of the topics that the Summer School [...] SummerSchool is organised by ERIH, the Berlin Centre for IndustrialHeritage and the Department of Culture and Design at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences (HTW Berlin). The application portal is [...] Network. The programme is aimed at students from various disciplines, including museum studies, cultural studies, history, industrial archaeology, cultural and tourism management, sociology, architecture and
another attraction of the Luxembourg mining and steelmaking district: the coexistence ofindustrialheritage and nature worth protecting. Highlight of the ERIH Anchor Point National Museumof 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
in the field of electric measurement systems. A different kind of attraction is the guided ride in a historic e-carriage exploring the industrialheritageof western Leipzig. The Museumof Printing Arts [...] the IndustrialHeritage Days, it turns into a stage for performing artists and musicians and at the same time serves as an exhibition and learning venue for a dynamic exchange on industrialheritage. T [...] is also the subject of the creative Klinge22 trading estate in Leipzig Plagwitz. Once part of Rudolph Sack's factory for agricultural machinery at the heart of Leipzig's old industrial district, it is now
social and cultural aspects of Rüsselsheim's history and reveals the traces they have left in the image of the town to this day. Programme of the Rhine-Mine Days ofIndustrialHeritage [...] and ideas for the future. One aspect pervades all events: industrialheritage is an integral part of regional and local identity. A prime example of this is the programme "The Opels, the Opelers and the Opel: [...] few of the events from this year's comprehensive programme. If you want to dive into the history of computer technology, the best place to visit is the "Digital Retro Park", an interactive museum and centre
pigeons in Silesian industrial towns? The Industrial Monuments Route Festival – the largest of its kind in Poland – has long since become a well-established part of the calendar of events in the Silesian [...] Louise Adit in Zabrze, the Historic Silver Mine World Heritage Site in Tarnowskie Góry and the Brewery Museum in Żywiec . A total of 41 monuments and museums in 25 different locations are involved, offering [...] history of a local Tychy brewery, with the finale being a spectacular fire theatre on the town square of Pszczyna. Visitors can easily reach the various venues by free public transport. Programme of INDUSTRIADA
