What does Swiss Industrial Heritage have to offer?

Swiss Industrial Heritage enables people to find leisure and educational opportunities related to the history of technology and industrial culture and to learn more about currently available offers. Together with its communication partners, Swiss Industrial Heritage helps to provide visibility for museums and collections of the history of technology and industrial culture throughout Switzerland.

Organisation

VINTES, the Swiss association of industrial culture and the history of technology

Switzerland has a unique and little-known heritage of the country’s history over the last 200 years. Workers, engineers, factory owners and their families alike all helped to shape Switzerland through hard work, inventive spirit and entrepreneurial risk. Museums and collections preserve these stories and bring them all to life.

Network, educate, inform

In contrast to other countries with a significant industrial history such as the UK, Germany and France, Switzerland has very few conferences, no major publications and no central website. Networking of the various activities relating to industrial culture is underdeveloped at the national level.

VINTES is aimed at private and public institutions that are involved in collecting, preserving and communicating in the fields of industrial culture and the history of technology.

VINTES is the only platform where exchange takes place among different people and institutions. VINTES organises conferences, puts together an annual overview of activities relating to the history of technology and runs the SIH web portal.

The aim is to build a sustainable structure to give the subject matter the exposure it deserves in terms of cultural policy.

Project organisation

The committee of VINTES, the Swiss association of industrial culture and the history of technology, commissioned the project team led by Philipp Abegg to implement the web portal.

Philipp Abegg

Project coordinator and member of VINTES Executive Committee kontakt@ballyana.ch | 079 825 07 87
Kilian T. Elsasser

Project manager and Chairman of VINTES info@vintes.ch | 078 619 78 61
Dr Regula Wyss

Project team member and Vice Chairwoman of VINTES sih-vintes@gmx.ch | 078 828 51 43

Patronage Committee

Our sincere thanks to the members of the Patronage Committee who provide SIH with valuable conceptual support:

Hugo Bütler, former Editor-in-Chief at NZZ, Rafael Enzler, President of the Swiss Museum Pass, Professor David Gugerli, ETH Zurich, Pius Knüsel, Chairman of the Association of Swiss Further Education Colleges, Matthias Michel, Member of the Council of States, Canton Zug, Isabelle Raboud-Schüle, Chairwoman of the Association of Swiss Museums, Kathy Riklin, former Member of the National Council, Canton Zurich, Andreas Sallmann, CEO and owner of ISA Sallmann AG, Amriswil, Jean-François Steiert, Member of the Council of State, Canton Fribourg, and Chairman of NIKE, David Streiff, former Director of the Federal Office of Culture

Sponsors and partners

SIH receives significant support from lottery funds from 10 cantons and various foundations. Several communication partners help us to ensure that SIH is visible and being used.