TY - JOUR A1 - Borsdorf, Ulrich A2 - von Puttkamer, Joachim A2 - Kopeček, Michal A2 - Borodziej, Włodzimierz T1 - The Ruhr Museum at Zollverein T2 - Cultures of History Forum N2 - The identity of Germany’s Ruhr area has been shaped by industrialisation, which transformed the former rural landscape and small towns into a centre of the industrial revolution on the continent. However, the history of civilization in the Ruhr stretches back to the early middle ages. All this is examined at the Ruhr Museum Essen, including the preconditions for and the serious consequences of industrialisation in in terms of the environment, as well as the long and largely unknown history of the Ruhr area before industrial times. KW - Germany KW - Ruhr area KW - museum KW - public history KW - industrialisation KW - memory KW - local history KW - Deutschland KW - Ruhrgebiet KW - Industrialisierung KW - Ruhr Museum KW - Umweltbelastung Y1 - 2014 UR - https://digital.herder-institut.de/publications/frontdoor/index/index/docId/188 ER -