Industrial heritage management: the thematic route of the TeH2O Water, Industry and Crafts Trail

TeH2O trail was created in 2014 within a European Union project called SHIFT-X .The thematic trail unites the history of 15 organically water-centred places in Bydgoszcz. The most important entities in the process of creating the route were: the City Hall in Bydgoszcz, specifically the Integrated Management Department including all representatives of the TeH2O Route (15 objects), Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum, Waterworks Museum, Woodworking Machine Factory, Bydgoszcz Beer Brewery, Former Municipal Gasworks, Museum of Photography at the University of Economy, Museum of Soap and History of Dirt, Introligatories at the Regional and Municipal Public Library, Barka Lemara at the Municipal Cultural Centre, Museum of the Bydgoszcz Canal).The trail is closely related to the identity and history of the city, since its origins connected with water, which is evident in is location and historical traces of economy. The trail was created in response to the need of enhancing the management of the industrial heritage and creating innovative products of industrial heritage. The facilities and assets located along the trail serve as illustration and scenery for numerous interwoven stories of people and events from times of the industrial boom in Bydgoszcz. Thanks to the information and promotional campaign, the project has become an impulse for searching for information about the city stories „straight form the factory“ and discovering urban secrets through history.