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
Technobull" in the RadWerk museum in Klein-Auheim. Another priority in the Rhine-Main region is aviation. In 1908, Germany's first airfield was built here, followed by the first international aircraft exhibition [...] exhibition one year later. Other prominent examples are the Zeppelin Museum in Neu-Isenburg and Frankfurt Airport. As an artistic highlight of the Days of Industrial Culture, various artists will transform the
neutrality by 2050 (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
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
interested in sites still largely unknown. El Generador, a Basque tourism provider and host of the International Industrial Tourism Fair B-Industrial, develops ideas and solutions in the travel and cultural
dates to the 15th century. The operation of the Makkarakoski sawmill, now functioning as a sawmill museum, began in 1753. The machinery and equipment of the current sawmill are mostly from the 1880s. The [...] developed into its current splendour, with three successive generations' homes being built. The most internationally renowned of these homes is Villa Mairea, designed by Alvar and Aino Aalto (1939). The area also
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).
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
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
tour of open air museums in Scandinavia and he took inspiration that lasted for the rest of his life from Skansen and other museums that he saw. In 1958 he became curator of the Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle [...] determined to follow a career in museums. He studied science at the University of Sheffield, after which he was employed for a time in a coke works before obtaining a job at the museum at Wakefield. In 1952 he [...] available at Beamish Hall in Co Durham, and Frank Atkinson was appointed to direct the museum in 1970. The museum opened the following year and its successes in the years that followed, when it was subject
Sweden. The earlier collection is brought together with new acquisitions and loans from the NationalMuseum 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
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 [...] Znojmo Castle was started in 1720 and rebuilt in 1885. Privatisation in 1993 was followed by international mergers and production ended in 2005. However, the brewery was then bought by the town council
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 [...] career he was involved as an advisor or trustee in business development, education, training and museums. He argued for the importance of generalist technocratic leaders who brought together a range of
forms of engineering, and he succeeded in managing a business of relatively modest size that crossed national frontiers. He was born in Milan, the elder son of Carlo Bugatti (1846-1940), designer of Art Nouveau [...] reckoned to be expensive on fuel, but remained in use until 1958. An example is preserved in the railway museum at Mulhouse. Bugatti’s factories were destroyed by bombing in the Second World War, and after the
as a museum illustrating the manufacture of Portland cement, that is a branch of the NationalMuseum of Science and Technology of Catalonia (MNACTEC) and is part of its Territorial System of museums that
pot and a clock - it appears as if the foreman has only just left his desk. This is how the Central Museum of Textiles recreates in detail some 200 years of daily working life and textile history in Łódź [...] exciting retrospective takes us back to the time of the great factory foundations, recounts nationalisation, bankruptcy and unemployment, and ends with the revival of local factories in the more recent [...] of the first textile industry hubs in Poland, along with the Łódź City Culture Park, an open air museum setting with a collection of historic wooden houses and other buildings typical of the region.
including explosives, glass, paper and property development. He took part in politics at regional and national levels, latterly as Senator for Vizcaya. He died unexpectedly of a stroke at the age of 45 in 1900 [...] made Marquis of Chávarri in 1914. A monument to him was put up in Portugalete in 1903 and the RIALIA museum shows material connected with his enterprises and those of his son, also called Victor Chávarri
