Industrial Heritage Tourismin Europe

Dr Wolfgang Ebert

A new project:

• is a European project for:

• Spatial development

• Industrial heritage

• Tourism

• part-financed by the

• EU-INTERREG-Programme

Industrial Heritage:

• Is an important part of the European heritage

• Is a chance for:

• “Regeneration through Heritage”

• Sustainable tourism

• Enhancing spatial and urban planning

• Industrial Heritage tourism with economic success

• Future needs heritage !

The Occasion

• The campaign of the EU:

• Europe - Our Shared Heritage

• The example:

• The Route of Industrial Heritage at The Ruhr, Germany

A successful Network

Working since 1999

• 25 Anchor points – the Highlights

• 552 sites

• 25 Theme Routes

• More than 10 millions visitors per year

• At the Silicon Valley of the Heavy Industry

• An investment of more than 10 Billions

www.route-industriekultur.de

• The base is: Network-Marketing

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The Profile of ERIH

• Industrial heritage tourism requires:

• Understanding the industrial landscapes

• Attractive sites

• Customers

• A market

• A network of information and marketing

• A well known brand

Planning and Organisationin the first Phase

• Building a network of information and partners

• Research work for sites and routes

• Thematic conferences

• Setting up a master-plan (end of 2001) for a part of Europe:

The Partners

• Are developing the vision since 1999

• Are financing the project together

• Are representing one (or more) single site(s)

• Are consultants for the research work for the whole of the country which they represent

What do we offer ?

The Network of ERIH wants to:• set up a structure offering professional services in and outside the network

• offer information and service about sites and routes to marketing organisations

• spread information and knowledge within the system of partners

• raise the quality of interpretation at the sites of the network

• work on better promotion of the sites

• work together with urban and spatial planners to spread the idea of “Regeneration through Heritage”

• offer direct information-services to customers about sites and routes

Sites and Networks

• The most attractive industrial heritage sites

• With an outstanding history

• With tourist potential

• They will be linked to the main route

• We call them "anchor points"

• And more:

• Sites which help to understand landscapes

• They will form the regional and thematic routes

• These routes start at the anchor points

• All in all: a network - easy to use and promote

Partners and sites

The BritishSub-Group

Anchor Points

• Blaenavon Big Pit National Mining Museum of Wales• Caernarfon Welsh Slate Museum • Sheffield Kelham Island Museum• Stoke-on-Trent Gladstone Pottery Museum• Brentford Kew Bridge Steam Museum• Matlock Arkwright Society• Manchester Saltaire Village• Lanark New Lanark Conservation Trust• Northwhich Lion Salt Works Trust • Dundee Verdant Works• Telford Iron Bridge Museums• Bickley Waltham Abbey Gunpowder Mill• Overton, Wakefield National Coal Mining Museum for England, Overton• Newtongrange Scottish Mining Museum• Birmingham Museum of Jewellery Quarter• Chatham The Historic Dockyard • Gloucester National Waterways Museum (at Gloucester Docks)• Swansea National Waterfront Museum• Truro Geevor Museum• Tavistock Morwellham Quay• Ironbridge Amlwch Industrial Heritage• Manchester The Manchester Museum of Science and Industry• Liverpool Merseyside Maritime Museum

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• Anchor point: Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site

• Borough of Telford & Wrekin

• Anchor point: Manchester and Salford Proposed World Heritage Site

• The Manchester University

• Anchor point: Big Pit National Mining Museum of Wales Blaenavon Industrial Landscape World Heritage Site

• Torfaen County Borough

• Anchor point: Royal Gunpowder Mill, Waltham Abbey• Essex County Council

Belgium

• Vereniging voor Industriële Archeologie en Textiel, Gent

Anchor point• MIAT - Museum of Industry and Textile, Gent

Anchor points• La Foundry, Brussels Museum of Industrial and Social History of the Brussels Region

• Westoria Tourist Centre, Diksmuide

• Museum of Industry and Textile, Gent

• Flemish Mining Museum, Behringen

• National Museum of Navigation, Antwerp

• The Masters of Fire, Amay

• Museum of Industry Forge La Providence, Charleroi

• Canal du Centre Shiplifts, La Louviere (Vistors Centre SENEFFE) World Heritage Site

• PASS Scientific Aventure Park Le Crachet, Mons

• Visitors Mine Blegny, Blegny

• Furnace St Michel, St Hubert

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The Netherlands

• Stichting Industriecultuur Nederland, Alkmaar

Anchor Points

• Kerkrade Museum of Industry "Industrion"• Tilburg The Dutch Museum of Textiles• Burgh-Haamstede Oosterscheldekering-Neeltjejans• Rotterdam Wilhelmina Quays • Haarlemmermeer Seam Punping Station "De Cruquius"• Amsterdam Heineken Experience - Heineken Brewery• Zaandam Museum Zaanse Schans• Hengelo Museum of Technology HEIM• Enschede Museum of Textiles and Social Life Jannink• Zenenaar Brick Works "De Panoven"

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The Saar

• World Heritage SiteVölklinger Hütte Iron Works

European Centre for Art and Industrial Heritage

• Consultants to the Government of the Saar

Anchor Point

• Voelklinger Hütte Iron Works World Heritage Site

More Anchor Pointsat the “Saar-Lor-Lux” Region

• Musée du bassin houiller lorrain Petite-Rosselle, France

• Industry and Railway Park Fond-de-Gras, Luxembourg

The Lead Partner• North-Rhine-Westphalian Board of Tourism

• The Secretariat of the Prime-Minister

• in co-operation with:

• The Minister for Urban Planning, Housing, Culture Affaires and Sports(responsible for Monument Preservation)

• The Minister for Economic Affaires, Energy and Transport (responsible for Tourism)

Anchor Points

• Colliery and Coking plant Zollverein, Essen (Ruhr) - World Heritage Site

• Landscape Park Duisburg-North, Duisburg (Ruhr)

• Westphalian Museum of Industry Colliery Zollern II/IV, Dortmund (Ruhr)

• Rhenish Museum of Industry Textile Mill Müller, Euskirchen

• Rhenish Museum of Industry Drop Forge Hendrichs, Solingen

• Westphalian Museum of Industry “Brick Works Sylbach”, Lage

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The Main Route

• will link all the anchor points

Regional Routes

• Each anchor point will serve as an information point to promote the route it is representing

TransnationalTheme Routes

• Mining: The Assets of our Earth

• Iron and Steel: Blast Furnaces Glowing

• Textile: From Fabric to Factory

• Production and Manufacturing: Goods for the World

• Application of Power: What Makes Us Go

• Transport and Communication: The Tracks of the Industrial Revolution

• Water: Blue Gold

Information-Systems

• Sites will be identified by symbols and signs

• Road signposting only at prominent places

• Or on regional routes (like at the Ruhr)

• Media will provide routes and information

• On the internet:

• A tourist information system

• www.erih.net

The First Step:

First Launch was in September 2005 at Ironbridge

The next Steps:

• Establishing the working network step by step

• Completing the information-systems

• Co-operation with the tourist organisations

• for the further development of

• Setting up the network for more regions of Europe

• Including existing networks in some regions

Thank you for your interest !