of very different events throughout the region from 1 to 11 September. A tour of the "Christine" slate mine in Willingen, for example, takes visitors into the underground history of regional mining, while [...] structures atop the barrage of the Eder reservoir. A fascinating trail that starts at Kassel City Museum illustrates why the city's greater area is a centre of mechanical engineering today. How, apart from

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) National Railway [...] 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) [...] 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

The museum opened in 2021 inside the national velodrome, Centro de Alto Rendimento. It uses the circular space beneath the cycleway. Its subject is the national and worldwide history of motorcycles and [...] displayed. Parts and accessories mark the history of cycling and motorcycling locally, regionally and nationally.

(already 50% by 2030). There are also targets, benchmarks, demands and concepts at national level. The United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals provide a framework for many activities. Countless

this time – with three lectures on "Photography between Tradition and Innovation" at the Ernst Leitz Museum in Wetzlar. The Middle Hesse Industrial Heritage Days were initiated by the Middle Hesse Industrial [...] 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 [...] municipalities, districts and the regional council. Also involved are the two natural reserves and the national Geopark. Tage der Industriekultur Mittelhessen

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 [...] 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 del Rey. The latter welcomes visitors with an exciting

company was nationalized in the Soviet era but relaunched with the A. Le Coq trademark in 1999. It is now the largest drinks manufacturer in Estonia, making beer, cider and soft drinks. The Beer Museum is in [...] and barrels. Guided tours (in Estonian, English or Russian) visit the production premises and the museum and end with a product tasting.

founded the German national organisation of hostels in 1919, and became involved in the international hostels movement. He is commemorated by a statue in the centre of Altena. The museum in the castle has [...] the region, including its industrial history. The entrance to the museum lies 300 m from the Deutsche Drahtmuseum (German wire museum).

in 1974. In 1996, it took over the branch railway for the WTK coal mine at Ampflwang to create a museum. The entrance was the miners’ baths and the five-story main building was the coal preparation plant [...] ‘Anna’, built in 1908 and used at the Breitenschützing coal mine. Many engines come from the Austrian national railway (ÖBB). For children there is an adventure playground on the theme of mining and railways [...] Trains are run on the 10.5-km track to and from Timelkam. The Society also has a narrow-gauge railway museum on the Steyr Valley Railway (Steyrtalbahn) and operates the 1912 paddle steamer Schönbrunn on the

symbolic value and (ideally national) importance for Europe´s industrial history. However, if the site is not in a historic building or structure (for example in a new museum building), the attractiveness [...] Anchor Points have to fulfil the following requirements of the quality and selection criteria. Due to national differences and others factors, ERIH is aware that not necessarily all of these always can be fulfilled [...] history and the current presentation of the site - film or photo documentation (inside and outside the museum) which shows what the visitor will see as they explore the site Report by a board member who has

ricken country with a feudal social structure – yet today it is one of Europe’s most prosperous nations. Andorra was recognised as an independent state in 1278, but it was ruled by two foreign “co-princes”: [...] 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

traces of former slate workings. Ardoi’Alle at Alle-sur-Semois offers to visitors a 45-minutes underground tour through large and mysterious chambers from which miners have extracted slate. Some discarded [...] organisation Le Réseau Ardoise d’Ardenne and the trail guide La Route d’Ardoise with similar slate museums at Bertrix in Belgium, Rimogne in France and Haut-Martelange in Luxembourg.

world by the clipper route. The unique feature of Arlington Court is the presence of the National Trust’s carriage museum. In 1964 the Marquess of Bute presented the Trust with a collection of eight historic [...] than 40 vehicles, including some from other country houses belonging to the National Trust and some from the Science Museum, London. They include the Craven state chariot, a carriage built for the Earls [...] country house of the Regency (early nineteenth century) period, owned and opened to the public by the National Trust. A particular attraction is the park with its herd of red deer. Arlington is the ancestral

France’s national military museum was founded in 1905 by the merger of two earlier institutions, the Artillery Museum, created during the French Revolution, and located at les Invalides from 1871, and [...] and the Historical Army Museum, established in 1896 and inspired by French displays at the Paris International Exhibition of 1889. The Hotel des Invalides was built in 1670-74 under the direction of the architect [...] tombs of Napoleon and Vauban (see Besançon) and those of many other eminent French generals. The museum has very large collections of armour, swords, firearms and artillery. Its permanent exhibitions are

Bernard Ashley in 1949. Between 1945 and 1952 she worked as a secretary at the London office of the National Federation of Women’s Institutes, and gained inspiration for her characteristic designs from an [...] an exhibition of traditional handicrafts organised by the Federation at the Victoria & Albert Museum. From 1953 she began to print her own silk screen designs on to scarves, napkins and tea towels which

Sweden. The earlier collection is brought together with new acquisitions and loans from the National Museum of Science and Technology and the Nisse Nilsson Collection. The cars represent many countries [...] Autoseum is a museum of cars, mopeds, speedway bikes and aircraft. The collection began at Skokloster Castle in 1963 and passed through several owners. In 2008 it opened at Simrishamn, at the southern [...] and one by Renault. They are laid out in a large building of 4,000m 2 . The site also houses a toy museum, a collection of model aircraft and the Frasses and Marianne Musikmuseum, which is an important

This national aviation museum was founded in 1955 and moved to its present location at Lelystad airport in 2003. It includes over 100 aircraft in and around two hangers and a reconstruction of the first

industrial history of Azerbaijan is largely a story of petroleum. Although the earth beneath this nation also holds iron, copper and other ores, their exploitation has remained secondary. Until the arrival [...] oil derricks began sprouting like mushrooms. Foreign investors from Europe’s booming industrial nations rushed into the country, and Baku saw the emergence of the legendary “Black City”, a cluster of oil [...] 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

The conversion of the Bankside power station in London into the United Kingdom’s National Museum of International Modern Art is one of the outstanding examples in Europe of the imaginative adaptation to

again in 2015 alongside an exhibition of brewing. The site is a national historical monument and branch of the National Agricultural Museum. The beautiful copper brewing equipment made by Škodawerke in Plzeň