Companion Volume to the Special Exhibition from June 16 to September 9, 2012
The industrial tradition of Chemnitz is usually associated first with the textile industry as well as machinery and vehicle manufacturing. Only on closer inspection does the viewer discover the significance of office technology, ...
History of Development, Inventory, and Repurposing into an Exhibition District for Land Art, Object Art, and Multimedia
Michael Falser addresses a “hot topic” of the post-industrial communication society in Europe: the end of industrial labor and the consequences of the closure of extensive production facilities.
With the present volume, "Crimmitschau Villas Tell a Story," in the INDUSTRIEarchäologie series, the focus is not only on the city of Crimmitschau and its villas, but also on the social, cultural, and architectural developments in the city and the surrounding region, alongside the economic aspects.
Monuments of the Saxon Textile Industry in the Zschopau and Flöha Valleys
"Lost Threads" provides a summary of the documentations of monuments of the Saxon textile industry in the Zschopau and Flöha valleys, created by students as part of industrial archaeology project seminars at the Institute for Industrial Archaeology, History of Science and Technology (IWTG) at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg, ...
With the founding of the Chemnitz Museum of Industry, a long-held wish of the people of Chemnitz became reality - a wish first expressed in 1827, when Chemnitz entrepreneurs called for the establishment of model collections and sample institutes. More than 160 years had to pass before the museum was finally founded.
Table of Contents:
Helmut Albrecht: Industrial Archaeology at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg
Otfried Wagenbreth: On the History of Recording Technical Monuments in the GDR
