magnificent model plant with its crenellated gables and the high-gloss polished machine hall with its Art Nouveau portal attracted numerous visitors right from the time of its construction. As a modern site of [...] with its striking architecture from different eras has become the "Ewald future site", combining modern industrial settlements such as the hydrogen competence centre with Europe's largest slag heap scenery
ice factories since the 16th century, storing winter snow for summer ice production. The advent of modern refrigeration rendered them obsolete. Local efforts to halt their decline led to the creation of
The Light Factory. Museum of Energy in Ponferrada, Spain, symbolises a new, promising technology: light as first application in the history of industrial power generation. Built in 1919, the thermal p
sanitary infrastructure to current daily consumption. Visitors can also learn about historical and modern railways and waterways, for example on the guided tour of the Bavarian port of Aschaffenburg entitled
transparent laboratory and tank depot of the largest cell bank in German-speaking Europe: it's here that modern factories open their doors for a close-up look behind the scenes. Since Leipzig's industrial heritage
Two ERIH Anchor Points along the route are of particular importance: the German Technical Museum and the Nazi Forced Labour Documentation Centre . The former - characterised from afar by the "Raisin B
in Dudelange is a living testimony. How to increase the productivity of workers not only by using modern machinery, but also thanks to social commitment, is illustrated by an industrial plant that, in the
glass chandeliers worth hundreds of thousands of euros. They are introduced to glass tiles and other modern wall and floor coverings made of glass, learn how French glassmakers mastered both the French and
third site ever to suffer this setback. As in the case of Dresden's Waldschlösschen Bridge in 2009, modern construction projects were cited that damaged the site's exceptional value. The Slate Landscape of
Before World War I, the "Elektropolis Berlin" was considered emblematic of a modern, hyper-connected city. After World War II, the long-term "deep sleep" of many industries helped preserve the often iconic
A key role is played by Freiberg, a major mining centre in the region and the first free mining town in Germany following early traces of silver in 1168. It is also home to the Bergakademie (Mining Ac
bulk goods, with coal leading the way. This is already evident in the Bridgewater Canal , the first "modern" canal in the motherland of industrialisation. Its developer Francis Egerton (1736-1803), 3rd Duke
industrial site goes back to the mid 18th century. In 1834 the ironworks were comprehensively modernised for the first time by the then owner, Ignaz von Landsberg. The present equipment consisting of
wire down through the years: a coat of chain mail, a super conductor or the enormous wire cable of a modern suspension bridge, not forgetting a practical tea-bag clip, the filament of a light bulb, wafer-thin [...] museum has found a new home in an old school building directly beneath the fortress. The result is a modern exhibition full of activities and surprises covering an area of 750 square metres.
Why is it that a boot-last factory in rural Lower Saxony becomes a turning point in modern architecture? The former warehouse of the Fagus Factory turns that question into an exciting story, displayed
revitalising the former compressor house with infinite audio-visual installations illustrating historical modes of extraction; and the mercury museum in a warehouse of 1941 that shows the scientific significance
etism, optics and radioactivity. Right next door: an Art Nouveau machine hall used for events, a modern planetarium as well as two cultural centres, one designated to film making and one to comics and
collection of the National Railway Museum are displayed. The museum complex includes Soho Cottage, the modest home of the Hackworth family, an iron merchant’s warehouse of the 1820s that was associated with
historic walls of the Albert Dock you can chart the history of one of the world’s most important ports. Model ships and original wooden ships, paintings, documents and hundred of other exhibits will tell you
