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The idea of convening a first international conference in Zabrze, an industrial city of Upper Silesia, became manifest in November 2003 among local enthusiasts of industrial monuments. Rapid changes faced by the city and the region required immediate action with a view to saving the precious heritage and adapting it to new requirements of modern life and the future. The available stock of post-industrial buildings which could already be visited at that time helped pave the way.
The protagonists first asked questions about the ways of preservation of industrial monuments and the improvement of their technical condition with a view to attributing them new functions, including those of tourism. Next were coming questions about the sources of finance, the required operational and tourism service standards, and the promotional measures to target new users.
When reviewing experience spread over Europe and the world one can find answers to these questions. That was why the conference organizers asked the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), competent European institutions, the National Tourism Organization and academia to support the initiative of international meetings. It also became possible to reach many experts and practitioners, in particular those from the International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (TICCIH).
Programme
10 May 2012, Thursday
09.30 – 10.00
Registration
10.00 – 11.00
Words of welcome and introduction
Ministry of Sport and Tourism
Marshal's Office of Śląskie Voivodeship (Silesian Region)
Polish Tourist Organisation
Polish Chamber of Tourism
City of Zabrze
11.00 – 11.30
Coffee break
11.30 – 13.00
Establishment of a European Network of Coal Mining Museums. Cooperation agreement signing ceremony
Centre Historique Minier du Nord Pas-de-Calais, Lewarde (France)
Deutsches Bergbau-Museum, Bochum (Germany)
Historic Coal Mine Guido, Zabrze (Poland)
Le Bois du Cazier, Charleroi (Belgium)
National Coal Mining Museum for England, Wakefield (United Kingdom)
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch
14.00 – 15.30
Panel I – presentations by coal mining museums
15.30 – 17.00
Tour of Zabrze’s attractions
19.30
Dinner and cultural night
11 May 2012, Friday
09.30 – 10.30
International Fair of Industrial Heritage and Underground Tourism. – Opening ceremony
10.30 – 10.45
Transfer to Pogoń Hall (Hala Pogoń)
11.00 – 12.30
Panel II – presentations by coal mining museums
12.30 – 13.00
Coffee break
13.00 – 14.30
Panel III
Landek Park, Ostrava (Czech Republic)
Museo de la Minería y de la Industria de Asturias (Spain)
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Penelope Denu, Council of Europe (CoE) - Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes
Miners of the World Project
List of Industrial Heritage for Tourism Project (International Documentation and Research Centre in Zabrze)
14.30 – 14.45
Final debate and wrap up
14.45 – 15.45
Farewell lunch |
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| What ? |
| conference |
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| Pogoń Hall, 402 Wolności, Zabrze |
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from 10/05/2012 to 11/05/2012
from 09:00 to 19:00 |
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whom ? |
City Hall Zabrze
Poland |
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