in the 20th century) Turksib. Turkestan-Sibirian Railway (Painting by Abilkhan Kasteyev. State Art Museum of Kazakhstan) Kazakhstan was a union republic of the 'Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)'

Conversion of Industrial Heritage Sites Research Results, Studies Teaching and Learning at Schools and Museums

reuse and popularisation of post-industrial sites in Europe for cultural and tourism purposes, e.g. museums: permanent and temporary exhibitions (presentation), event venues (entertainment), interpretation

Plant and Museum. Kryvyi Rih (UA) Art Casting Museum / Lauchhammer Biotowers. Lauchhammer (D) Blegny Mine. Blegny (B) Bursledon Brickworks Industrial Museum. Southampton (GB) Coal Mining Museum. Zabrze (PL) [...] Granit Quarrying Museum. Königshain (D) Lage Brickworks LWL Industrial Museum. Lage (D) Le Bois du Cazier World Heritage Site. Marcinelle (B) Museum of Metallurgy. Chorzów (PL) Museum Nord. Narvik (N) [...] Hansa Coking Plant. Dortmund (D) Hendrichs Drop Forge LVR Industrial Museum. Solingen (D) Henrichshütte Steelworks LWL Industrial Museum. Hattingen (D) Historic Silver Mine World Heritage Site. Tarnowskie

start of planning for a pipeline between Baku and Batumi, which commenced operation in 1907. Today, a museum in Batumi documents the history of the petroleum industry. At the same time, both the Czar of Russia [...] supported by the Caucasian Institute for Silkworm Breeding, founded in Tbilisi in 1887. Today, a museum in the old institute building recalls Georgia’s lost silk manufacturing. A self-aware, working class

Robert and Ludvig Nobel erected the imposing Villa Petrolea, which today houses an oil industry museum. Like their better-known brother Alfred, the Nobels were both entrepreneurs and inventors: they founded

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

Today, the caverns which mining created serve as a warehouse for wine merchants and a viticulture museum. In 1812, the under-developed land passed from the Ottomans to the Russian tsars, who called it

hydroelectric power plant was built in Prizren, which has since been converted into an electricity museum. A British company invested in the extraction of lead, zinc and other raw materials in the Trepça

Industrial Museum. Lage (D) Le Bois du Cazier World Heritage Site. Marcinelle (B) Museum Nord. Narvik (N) Museum Oederan 'The Weaving'. Oederan (D) Museum of Metallurgy. Chorzów (PL) Museum of Work. Hamburg [...] Añana Salt Valley. Salinas de Añana (E) Art Casting Museum. Lauchhammer (D) Baruth Glassmaking Village. Baruth (D) Bursledon Brick Works Industrial Museum. Southampton (GB) Centrum Kultury Śląskiej at former [...] Henrichshütte Steelworks LWL Industrial Museum. Hattingen (D) Historic Silver Mine World Heritage Site. Tarnowskie Góry (PL) Königshain Granit Quarrying Museum. Königshain (D) La Encartada Fabrika-Museao

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 [...] political role for the first time. His 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 [...] 17th century, not least on account of 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

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” [...] 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

well into the 20th century. Nor could Montenegro profit from the flourishing sea trade, to which the museum in the port city of Kotor bears testimony, as the Adriatic coast was divided between Venice and the

Narvik (N) Museum Nord. Narvik (N) Museum Oederan 'The Weaving'. Oederan (D) Museum Oederan 'The Weaving'. Oederan (D) Museum of Industry. Gent (B) Museum of Industry. Gent (B) musil – Museum of Industry [...] Königshain Granit Quarrying Museum. Königshain (D) Königshain Granit Quarrying Museum. Königshain (D) Lage Brickworks LWL Industrial Museum. Lage (D) Lage Brickworks LWL Industrial Museum. Lage (D) Lauchhammer [...] Porcelain Museum. Großdubra (D) Margarethenhütte Electrical Porcelain Museum. Großdubra (D) Mildenberg Brickworks Park. Zehdenik (D) Mildenberg Brickworks Park. Zehdenik (D) Museum Nord. Narvik (N) Museum Nord

publicly owned, 32% are operated by private organisations, 12% by foundations, 4% are corporate museums and 6% have other ownership. Opening times (different due to coronavirus pandemic) 2021: 71% open [...] region, 30% from the country concerned and 10% were international visitors. Due to the general and museum-specific restrictions imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, the proportion of international visitors

(PL) Margarethenhütte Electrical Porcelain Museum. Großdubra (D) Mildenberg Brick Works Park. Zehdenick (D) Museum Oederan 'The Weaving'. Oederan (D) Musil. Museum of Industry and Labour | Cedegolo Power [...] Lage Brickworks LWL Industrial Museum. Lage (D) Lauchhammer Bio-Towers. Lauchhammer (D) Le Bois du Cazier World Heritage Site. Marcinelle (B) Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum | Exploseum. Bydgoszcz (PL) [...] Brescia (I) Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology. Oslo (N) Old Mine Science and Art Centre. Wałbrzych (PL) Pfau Brothers Textile Factory. Crimmitschau (D) Pilsner Urquell Brewery Museum. Plzen (CZ) Riotinto

linkage– for example, technology of the German company Siemens in the converter factory of the Streetcar Museum in Porto. All participants in “Linking Europe” can also be viewed in our virtual exhibition. If you

to this day. But there are also differences. The traditional hubs of the industry meanwhile host museums devoted to cutlery, whereas new players such as Portugal did not (yet) enter this level of awareness [...] that spans several centuries. Nogent once delivered luxury goods to wealthy customers in Paris, the museum in St.-Jean-de-Maurienne in the French Jura, set up in a former plant of the Opinel family, attracts [...] southern slope of the Alps: Premana east of Lake Como and Maniago north of Venice. Maniago owns a museum that is housed in the imposing building of a socially-owned enterprise built before the First World

(GB). Open Air Museum Bergisch Gladbach (D). Old Dombach Paper Mill LVR Industrial Museum Beringen (B) be Mine Flamish Mining Museum Berlin (D). German Technical Museum Birmingham (GB). Museum of the Jewellery [...] Works LVR Industrial Museum Euskirchen (D). Müller Textile Works LVR Industrial Museum Friedrichshafen (D). Zeppelin Museum Furtwangen (D). German Clock Museum Gent (B). MIAT Museum about Industry, Labour [...] (D). Textile Works LWL Industrial Museum Bochum (D). Railway Museum Bochum (D). Hall of the Century London (GB) London Museum of Water and Steam London (GB) London Museum of Water & Steam Burton-upon-Trent

ON THE INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF CYPRUS Listen Copper is Cyprus’s only major natural resource – but it was once so plentiful that it secured the island’s fame and wealth for millennia. Copper was the firs