factory - historical site", "Frankfurt Main Cemetery - Walking in the footsteps of famous figures in industry, politics and business": these are just a few of the events from this year's comprehensive programme [...] history of computer technology, the best place to visit is the "Digital Retro Park", an interactive museum and centre for digital culture. The issue of urban planning then and now is illustrated by the guided [...] European Quarter". The co-existence of past, present and future is particularly exciting. In the factory museum of the Motorenfabrik Oberursel, for example, visitors do not only learn about the manifold factory
recalling the long port history of this part of the city. The Blohmstrasse Culture Kiosk in the Harburg Museum Harbour is another venue celebrating its debut at the Days of Industrial Culture. The "Trinkhalle [...] river Schwale to show how the water in the city once influenced work and, in particular, the cloth industry. Other highlights include trips and tours aboard historic cargo ships and ferries. Once again, maritime [...] and Kiel will also be taking part. The detailed programme on all the industrial heritage sites and museums in the Hamburg Metropolitan Region as well as further information on industrial history are available
companies in the optical industry, which is both sponsor and presenter this time – with three lectures on "Photography between Tradition and Innovation" at the Ernst Leitz Museum in Wetzlar. The Middle Hesse [...] 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
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 [...] 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 Sotón Mine in San Martín
of heavy Russian machinery. The museum presents a wide range of exhibits on the production and use of peat, as well as the history and development of the peat industry. The environmental management of [...] Aitoneva, a part of the municipality of Kihniö around 100 km north of Tampere, houses the only museum which exhibits the history of industrial-scale peat production in Finland. The extraction and use of [...] of peatlands is also addressed. Outside the museum, around sixty machines related to peat production are located in the woodland, the oldest of which date back to the 1940s. The landscape created by peat
(or tourist) industry, hotels, wayside inns, motorway service stations, are readily recognised as part of the industrial heritage. One of the most significant innovations in the industry in the twentieth [...] The museum in the castle has displays on the history of the youth hostel movement, but also on the geology and history of the region, including its industrial history. The entrance to the museum lies [...] lies 300 m from the Deutsche Drahtmuseum (German wire museum).
son Pau Xavier founded Andorra’s first, albeit short-lived, museum in Ordino in 1903. Tobacco farming emerged as a further important industry at the end of the 17th century, not least on account of the [...] opened in the 1840s and closed in 1876 when the Andorran iron mines ceased production , is today a museum. The Areny family has also been active in the iron business since the 17th century. The family estate [...] the profits to be made by smuggling cigarettes into Spain. The museum housed in the tobacco factory founded by the Reig family, which operated from 1903 to 1957, testifies to this history. It is characteristic
in Yerevan developed into one of the largest European producers of aluminium foil. By the 1930s, industry was already generating most of Armenia's economic output. From the 1950s onwards, electrical engineering [...] Mergelian. The innovative computer families "Rasdan-2" and "Nairi" were developed there in the 1960s. The Museum of Science and Technology in Yerevan documents these pioneering achievements. In order to remedy
forerunners of paper to the modern paper industry. The setting is provided by the unique ambience of the former Steyrermühl paper mill, hosting several museums and exhibitions side by side. Visitors are [...] seamless wire: this is what the world's first paper machine looks like. Visitors to the Laakirchen Museum of Papermaking and Print can see its replica in action. The technical relic is part of an exciting [...] experiences, for example 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
metropolis, Robert and Ludvig Nobel erected the imposing Villa Petrolea, which today houses an oil industrymuseum. Like their better-known brother Alfred, the Nobels were both entrepreneurs and inventors: they [...] Related Links WIKIPEDIA: Economy of Azerbaijan WIKIPEDIA: Petroleum industry in Azerbaijan History of development of oil industry World Atlas: The biggest industries in Azerbaijan Neft Daşları. Oil platform [...] Reservoir in 1948 led to the founding of the city of the same name, which became a centre of light industry, primarily the production of construction materials and textiles. North of Baku, with its innumerable
metallic ores. In 1798 he was appointed government technical adviser for the development of the iron industry in Upper Silesia and, again with Reden, built the Königshütte (Royal Ironworks) at Chorzów. He spent [...] an Italian merchant at Gleiwitz (Gliwice) in 1804 and their children continued to be involved in industry in Silesia after their father’s death. The family mansion was at Pogrzebien, and his Gothic-style [...] in the ironworkers’ cemetery in Gleiwitz (Gliwice), was restored in 2012 and is now in the local museum.
have largely disappeared. Only the award-winning Black Country Living Museum is still deeply rooted in Victorian times. The Museum effortlessly transports visitors to the late 18th and early 19th century [...] It was in the 1830s when the heavy industry conquered the area north and west of Birmingham. At that time, the Black Country already was known for its vast, partly near-surface coal layers. Now, iron mills [...] seams and the vents of industrialization turned this area black. All the buildings of the open-air museum are original and have been moved here to save them from development. Costumed staff bring the period
ter’ and moderniser who managed enterprises in all sectors of Spanish industry. As president of the national institute of industry in the 1970s he led more than 200,000 employees. His family ran a hardware [...] school of industrial engineers in the city in 1946 his first job was as an engineer in the textile industry at Tarrasa in Catalunya. He then moved to the Spanish Protecorate in Morocco, where he worked as [...] a state-owned financing company established by the Franco regime in 1941 to reconstruct Spanish industry after the Civil War and increase economic self-sufficiency. He restructured the organisation and
Musée Bolo is the Swiss Museum of Computer Science, Digital Culture and Video Games. It occupies Building INF of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Faculty of Computer Science and Com [...] Communications. The collection was begun in 1995 by the engineer, Yves Bolognini and it became a museum in 2002, now run by the foundation Mémoires Informatiques. The diverse collections include several thousand [...] 1980s and 1990s, the Cray-2 (of which only 29 were built) and the IBM Blue Gene. The Swiss computer industry is well represented, for example by the Lilith workstation created at the Zurich Polytechnic School
Haas commissioned a Vienna museum director to create designs, and women weavers in Bosnia wove them into carpets that were subsequently marketed, and even exhibited in museums, as “traditional Bosnian” [...] heavy industry. Bosnia in particular profited from President Tito’s break with the Soviet Union in 1948: relatively far from the nation’s borders, it was considered a safe location for industry. Consequently [...] continued the centuries old production of salt near Tuzla, where today this history is preserved by a museum, and expanded the first foundry near Priyedor, which also dates back to pre-Christian times. Trade
the world in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and revolutionised the application of power in industry. Boulton was born at Birmingham in the English midlands, where his father owned a business making [...] house is preserved and many items made by Boulton & Watt are displayed in the Birmingham Science Museum.
from smaller brewers which gradually ceased to exist. World War II was a disaster for the brewing industry. During the war, many breweries interrupted production or started making low-gravity beers. Unf [...] "Brewing of Beer" has been developed together with the ERIH Anchor Point Pilsner Urquell Brewery and Museum in Pilsen (CZ). Related Links Franz G. Meussdoerffer: A Comprehensive History of Beer Brewing (pdf)
large-scale opencast mining machine for the industry is now a landmark. ‘Excavator 1452’ was preserved in 2001. This 33.5m-tall giant is the star exhibit in the museum. It has long steel booms and moves on
be held on Thursday 7th October 2021 as a hybrid event; in-person at the ERIH Anchor Point, Museum of Industry, Ghent, Belgium and online. A decision on whether the in-person part of the event will be able
