region and its people in a profound way and continue to do so to this day. For example, there is water as an important means of transport. 34 barrages, 33 of them featuring hydroelectric power stations [...] completely different tradition is recalled by the exhibition "Racing Bikes by Technobull" in the RadWerk museum in Klein-Auheim. Another priority in the Rhine-Main region is aviation. In 1908, Germany's first [...] first international aircraft 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
(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
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
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
"Service water for forests and cities", "Industrial landmark Peter Behrens Building", "Adler Works: concentration camp - factory - historical site", "Frankfurt Main Cemetery - Walking in the footsteps [...] history of computer technology, the best place to visit is the "Digital Retro Park", an interactive museum and centre for digital culture. The issue of urban planning then and now is illustrated by the guided [...] European Quarter". The co-existence of past, present and future is particularly exciting. In the factory museum of the Motorenfabrik Oberursel, for example, visitors do not only learn about the manifold factory
recalling the long port history of this part of the city. The Blohmstrasse Culture Kiosk in the Harburg Museum Harbour is another venue celebrating its debut at the Days of Industrial Culture. The "Trinkhalle [...] the Marien-Stollen. In Neumünster, they walk along the course of the river Schwale to show how the water in the city once influenced work and, in particular, the cloth industry. Other highlights include [...] and Kiel will also be taking part. The detailed programme on all the industrial heritage sites and museums in the Hamburg Metropolitan Region as well as further information on industrial history are available
"Sustainable water protection - the water route at Merck" in Darmstadt. The variety of attractions on offer is linked to the Rhine-Main region, but also reflects the main topic. Because water can be found [...] Rail - Infrastructures for eco-friendly cargo transport). There are events on water management, service and drinking water cycles in waterworks, sewage treatment plants, locks or open-air swimming pools [...] fountains, bathing fun") across Rüsselsheim. Its scope ranges from the city's supply with drinking water hundreds of years ago to the construction of ornate fountains and the building of the municipal sanitary
fountain house built in 1593, the spring water, engine and water wheel houses dating to the 19th century, and the 1910 pumping station with its historic water trail are examples of the vibrant industrial [...] 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
abroad. As Lake Sevan was increasingly losing water due to the high demand of the power plants, the construction of an almost 50-kilometre-long tunnel bringing water from the Arpa River began. In 1980, the Metsamor [...] and in 1936, construction began on the Sevan-Hrasdan Cascade, a chain of seven power plants fed by water from Lake Sevan and the Hrasdan River. At the same time, urgently needed irrigation canals for agriculture [...] 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
The Immenhausen Glass Museum is holding a glass and porcelain flea market and is also hosting its current exhibition "Glass Art from Bohemia". At the Hessian Brown Coal Mining Museum in Borken, guided tours [...] Dozens of North Hessian museums, associations, initiatives and companies are involved. With guided tours, factory visits, exhibitions, hikes, experiments and open days, they breathe life into North Hessen's [...] the factory tours of operating companies are well booked. What is the process for getting mineral water from the well into the bottle and beer from Hessen's first organic brewery from the brewhouse into
government of New South Wales. The capacity of Beyer Garratt locomotives to carry large quantities of water and fuel and their low axle loadings made them especially successful in Africa and in South America [...] adopted country, and the Beyer Peacock locomotives that are displayed in many of Europe`s railway museums testify to his influence.
the locomotive as it chuffs peacefully along the Ruhr valley. There is no doubt that the Railway Museum in the Bochum suburb of Dahlhausen arouses a lot of nostalgia. On Sundays there is always a hand-lever [...] hand-lever trolley at hand on which to drive up and down the huge site to inspect the points, water tower, turntable, engine sheds and coal crane. In addition a rumbling field train waits to take its passengers [...] nearby station at Bochum-Dahlhausen. The station with its restored entrance hall also belongs to the museum. Amongst the exhibits to be seen here is a collection of rail tickets. The fact that none of this
Near the city centre of Zaporizhia is The Boguslaev Technical Museum, also known as the Museum of Aviation and High-Tech “Motor Sich”. Opened in 2013, it is housed in an elegant building on the edge of [...] engines and gas turbines. The factory was destroyed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The museum contains a unique and impressive display of piston and jet engines together with models and examples [...] collection of historical motorcycles and an elegantly displayed collection of samovars for heating water. Outside, an open-air exhibition of military equipment includes tanks, lorries, guns and aircraft
marketing. He had substantial capital from his wife’s family and in 1761 he began building a large water-powered factory on a new site at Soho near Birmingham to manufacture small metal goods such as buttons [...] house is preserved and many items made by Boulton & Watt are displayed in the Birmingham Science Museum.
in clay containers. Water got into some of the containers, which started the process of fermentation, and thus the very first “beer” was born; although, from today, it was rather water with a pleasant i [...] discovered, during which beer was left to freeze and, as a result of the different melting points of water and ethanol, the alcohol content in the beer increased, making it stronger. It is believed that the [...] "Brewing of Beer" has been developed together with the ERIH Anchor Point Pilsner Urquell Brewery and Museum in Pilsen (CZ). Related Links Franz G. Meussdoerffer: A Comprehensive History of Beer Brewing (pdf)
separate compartments. The shield was driven forward by jacks and the tunnel was lined in brick. Water broke into the workings several times and progress stopped until government funding was offered in [...] in 1869 and continues in use. The pumping engine house and shaft at Rotherhithe are now the Brunel Museum. The Thames Tunnel proved the concept of tunnels beneath rivers and led to many other examples. Brunel
of the cotton factory from England to mainland Europe. In 1771, Richard Arkwright built the first water-powered mill for spinning cotton at Cromford in England. This developed the idea of the factory – [...] North-Rhine Westphalia in 1783-4 he gave it the name Cromford. The building is now an industrial museum. Brügelmann grew up in a family of merchants at Elberfeld, now a district of Wuppertal. Elberfeld [...] Brügelmann built his new Cromford factory at Ratingen, 40 kilometres away from Elberfeld. It used an old water-power site on the river Anger. It was five storeys high and designed on the Arkwright model by Rutger
and it is regularly opened. The textile museum is on the most important museum of this kind in Italy. Covering an area of 2,400 square metres, the Textile Museum displays an extensive range of textiles [...] Textile Factory. The two-storey, faithfully restored rectangular building with its courtyard, elegant water basin and slender brick chimney was constructed in 1863. Today it is a symbol of Prato´s centuries-old [...] trading in 1994. The work of the factory rehabilitation begun in 2000. In May 2003 Prato Textile Museum (just operating since 1975) has been definitively housed in the converted Campolmi textile mill.
financed and built the town’s gasworks, and in 1859 formed the Broadstairs Water Company, whose waterworks is now the town museum, and includes the 24.38m high Crampton Tower, at the top of which is a 386 [...] preserved in Britain, but a French example, Le Crampton , is one of the treasures of the railway museum at Mulhouse. From 1848 Crampton practised as a civil engineer, carrying out various projects for
with delay, for example in Thiers (France). In Solingen, almost all conventional ‚Wasserkotten‘ (water-powered grinding shops) were still in operation around 1900, even though steam grinding plants had [...] 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