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

lives of 5,000 miners and their families? The "Portal of Industrial Heritage" translates this history to the entire Ruhr district: multimedia stations effectively showcase 18 former flagships of large-scale [...] The past is explored by the "Heritage Trail", bringing to life the history and technology of what was once Europe's largest coal mine. What was it like when the rhythm of gigantic machines and conveyor [...] under one roof. The Ruhr Museum in the former coal washing plant focuses on even more immense dimensions. It recounts the natural and cultural history of the Ruhr area over a period of 300 million years - from

Zeeland Industrial Museum reveals that the sunniest region of the Netherlands also has a lot to offer in terms of industry. Who would have thought, for example, that the glass on the façades of the skyscrapers [...] that Zeeland plays a central role in the development of bioenergy? Sweets such as Mentos mints also come from here. It is no coincidence that the museum, which includes a steam turbine and a Art Nouveau-style [...] Nouveau-style switchgear at its heart, is located in an old sugar factory. A special feature of the place are the many objects that you can and are encouraged to touch. For example, horseshoes from the largest

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

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

remarkably genuine sound of crackling fire and bursting rock. The Rammelsberg Museum and Visitor Mine near Goslar stages 1,000 years of mining history; from the age-old method of mining ore by laying a fire [...] through a mediaeval system of galleries, to the thunderous roar of modern mining and conveying techniques during a trip on the colliery railway. A fine example of industrial architecture awaits visitors [...] accompanied by vivid sound effects of everyday working conditions. The mine was inscribed as a World Cultural Heritage site in 1992 – along with the former Imperial Town of Goslar.

Europe. He was the son of the pot founder Isaac Wilkinson (1695-1784) and the younger brother of John Wilkinson (1728-1808) the most prominent ironmaster of the British Industrial Revolution. Both William [...] Creusot, the first stage of which included four blast furnaces, and 24 km of iron railway. The last stages of the journey from Bersham to Le Creusot of a steam engine cylinder inscribed ‘Wilkinson’ were [...] at Indret near the mouth of the Loire were executed by Pierre Toufaire, but the works was unsuccessful and produced few cannon. Ignace de Wendel, an artilleryman, and a member of a family with long experience

cultural heritage, to industrial production, from the art scene to high-tech ceramic research. At the Westerwald Ceramics Museum, visitors can learn all about the history and production of Westerwald [...] production of a grey-blue vessel. It shows how this unique product became an object of desire in the Baroque period and how the region developed into an important industrial centre with a wide range of applications [...] ceramics. On the upper floor, a variety of displays illustrate the importance of ceramics in contemporary art. Visitors can get creative themselves in the museum's workshop.

businessman who developed the new industrial community of Forssa in Finland in the mid-19th century, one of the country’s earliest industrial towns. He was born into a family of merchants in Stockholm and was [...] health centre, a library and a shop. In 1872, Wahren entered a new industry of great importance for Finland, the manufacture of wood pulp for papermaking. With partners, he founded the Kymmena company and [...] Kouvola, 130km north-east of Helsinki. In the 20th century the textile factories at Forssa became the largest in Finland under the brand Finlayson. Today Wahren’s spinning mill is a museum.

and social media provide real-time coverage of each dance performance. A competition features monetary awards for the dance groups achieving the highest number of likes. Many ERIH sites have WORK it OUT fixed [...] The event aims to encourage particuarly young people to explore former industrial sites. As always, all participating dance groups – coming from schools, sports clubs, fitness studios and dance classes [...] CET. This is where the organising team will introduce themselves and explain the idea and objectives of the festival as well as providing practical information. Registration for both the dance festival and

social media campaign and organising the video contest of the dance videos submitted by all participating locations. ERIH locations that want to be part of the event can register now. For those who are "still [...] 'Frost E' is currently composing the WORK it OUT Song 2023 and the 'Center of Dance' in Berlin, itself a participant in WORK it OUT from the beginning, is developing the choreography. ERIH is again supplying

funded by UPM-Kymmene, one of Finland’s largest wood-processing companies. The village attached to the mill is used by the company as holiday accommodation. Verla is one of the best-preserved company villages [...] villages in Europe and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996.

computer programmes, audio-visual scenarios, the smell of oil and the noise of running machines, Verdant Works is a place where the power of the industrial past is made vividly present. [...] else in the world. One of them was the Verdant Works. The last working jute mill in Britain is now an exciting museum. Here visitors can find out more about the past history of the local textile industry [...] In the offices they can eavesdrop on the clerks. Later they can travel alongside the bales of jute in the hold of a clipper from India to Dundee before being confronted with the appalling factory conditions

on the history of the site and on the industrial heritage of the Auvézère basin, and are able to see the whole production line on which paper was produced. Payzac adjoins the community of Savignac-Lédrier [...] The paper mill on the Belles Dames stream in the valley of the Auvézère in the Dordogne was established in 1861, taking over the water-power system of a disused seventeenth-century ironworks. It used rye [...] ier, site of an historic ironworks.

The museum centre Konsti includes Varkaus History Museum and Varkaus Art Museum and, as a new addition, Children's Factory, which lets kids explore the industry through play. In Konsti visitors can find [...] its technological knowhow in energy and process technology. The premises of Museum Centre Konsti are located under the walls of the old factory school which was completed in 1924. The building is located [...] find the story of Varkaus’ 200 year old industry all the way to the future. Industry in Varkaus started from a small iron mill in 1815. It grew and expanded to multibranch industrial centre and today it

Located in the industrial city of Vassa, this is Finland’s largest private car museum. Owned by Vaasa Vintage Car Society, it opened in 1981 and moved to its present building in 2010. It explores the history [...] history of road vehicles from the early 20 th century to the present. One floor is devoted to some of the earliest cars and to sports and racing cars, which include the rare Lancia Fulvia Zagato, the Volvo [...] engines made by Finska Motorfabriks, the engines of Bröderna Wickströms Motorfabrik, and many smaller manufacturers. This area also has an exhibition of bicycles and motorcycles and other artefacts representing

ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM Listen The Industrial Revolution began in the fields of British farmers. Thanks to new cultivation methods, they were able to increase their yields in the [...] up-and-down motion of the steam engine into rotation so that it could set tens of thousands of spindles in motion on a single spinning machine. The spinning rooms and dust towers of the "spinning mills" [...] Isambard Kingdom Brunel, one of the most colourful personalities of the era. Around the middle of the 19th century, full industrialisation was achieved when cheap mass production of iron and steel began and

the history of nuclear power generation. The objective of the museum is to help humanity to understand the implications of what happened. Multi-media presentations explain the technology of the power stations [...] reasons for the meltdown of the reactor. There are graphic representations of the ruined buildings, and of the exclusion zone around it. The horrors of the genetic consequences of the radiation leak, pa [...] humans and other animals are fully illustrated. This is the most disturbing of all industrial museums but the messages it conveys are of supreme importance.

the territory of the modern country was in the hands of three different foreign powers. The fertile black-earth region to the west of the Dniepr was long held by the great power of the Poland-Lithuanian [...] be seen in the Kyiv Aviation Museum. Soon, the Ukraine was producing around half of all the USSR’s tanks and missiles, making the country a centre of the military-industrial complex. However, as in the [...] was a union republic of the 'Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)', which was dissoluted in 1991. Therefore, for completeness, also read our articles on the industrial history of the other former soviet

ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF TURKEY Listen By the beginning of the 20th century, the once-glorious Ottoman Empire had deteriorated for all practical purposes into an agricultural colony of the West. Due [...] santral istanbul energy museum – was established in Istanbul under the Ottomans, the new era saw the construction of numerous power and hydroelectric plants. After the Great Depression of 1929, the government [...] become independent of imports. The giant steel works in Ereğli on the Black Sea commenced operation in 1965. Among the increasing number of private start-ups was the first bakery of sweets manufacturer