see the interior and understand how it operated, assisted by interactive displays. They can also enter the driver’s cab. A rich photographic archive illustrates the importance of railways to the town of

to international competition. Former miners created an association to preserve the mine. Visitors enter riding a working railway with an electric locomotive and go 2km underground. Guides explain the history

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 long after its demise in 1986, today's ERIH Anchor Point began

century. Another innovator, Count Henrich zu Stollberg-Wernigerode, also recognised the opportunity to enter the new technology of coke-fired blast furnaces. His Henrichshütte Ironworks , founded in 1854 and

member Ewald Future Site in Herten offers access to extraordinary "lost places": guests are allowed to enter otherwise forbidden areas and locked rooms of the Ewald mine. The Henrichshütte Ironworks in Hattingen

displays to demonstrate tunnelling methods and wooden blocks with which to build a viaduct. Visitors can enter the cab of an electric locomotive outside the building as a simulator. Inside, a working model railway

of mining and the manufacture of coins and medals. The collection began in the 18th century and entered the museum in 1956. It was redeveloped in 2003 as a national Museum of Coins and Medals. It occupies

windows and a tall chimney at the centre. The visitors' route leads up a ramp for trolleys with clay to enter the building, to a grinder that pressed the clay through sieves and then to the press and cutter.

since the 11th century. With industrialisation from the middle of the 19th century, mechanisation entered the stonemasonry trade. In 1888 Carl Klingspor founded the company 'Råbäcks Mekaniska Stenhuggeri'

they needed for their work at great expense from Britain. Zimmerman decided, at the age of 28, to enter this field himself. He visited Britain to see the industry in person and buy examples of the equipment

coordinating bodies in mining, shipping and business. He was awarded the title of Marquis of Llano. He entered politics as a Basque nationalist and was elected to the Spanish Cortes. At the outbreak of the Civil

workers and their families - a school, medical assistance and a social security system. In 1911 he entered the shipping industry, buying eight ships to transport his goods. He founded the cigarette manufacturer

this, he began a major project for the 30-km Morskoy ship canal to allow large sea-going vessels to enter St Petersburg’s ports. When he died in 1880, before the canal was completed, he was buried at his

France. The textile museum of the département is in a nineteenth-century woollen factory. Visitors enter by a footbridge across the River Thoré from a park on Boulevard Carnot. It contains original looms

histories of global shipping, the Caspian Sea and oil production at Baku. Visitors can walk the decks and enter the ‘bridge’ where the officers commanded the ship, the cabins of the crew, the radio room and the

experience: a simulator recreates a shaft trip down to a depth of 600 m and conveys the feeling of entering a real mine afterwards. Rail transport vehicles used in the past are exhibited on the outside grounds

German states examining mines and ironworks. He published his findings in the Annales de mines . He entered the government service as a supervisor of mines and quarries across France in 1841. In 1843 he began

became a major producer of railway equipment, armaments and later trolleybuses and aircraft. Breda entered politics in 1866 and was elected to the Italian parliament as a deputy and then a senator, which

hand. Effective methods are needed to transfer and share knowledge with new staff and volunteers entering the field. ERIH addressed this issue at the 2020 Annual Conference in Oberhausen. Under the theme

Industry , located in the world's oldest surviving passenger station of 1830, the railway already entered the steam age thanks to the inventions of industrial pioneers such as Richard Trevithik and George