Share your photos on the history of TICCIH and its people!

Our upcoming World Congress in Kiruna this August will be an occasion to mark and celebrate our organization’s 50th Anniversary and its remarkable evolution from a European-born organisation to a global community in the field of industrial heritage. TICCIH’s history started back in 1973 with the First International Congress on the Conservation of Industrial Monuments (FICCIM) being organized by Neil Cossons and his team at the Ironbridge Museum in the UK; the historic proceedings of this and subsequent TICCIH Congresses can be found here on our website: https://ticcih.org/congress-proceedings-transactions-and-reports/

To showcase key events, activities, and the people that have marked the history of TICCIH, we plan to dedicate special moments at our 2025 World Congress in Kiruna to the commemoration of 50 years of international advocacy, research, and networking on industrial heritage. For that, we are currently creating a visual archive that documents TICCIH’s past world and regional congresses, meetings, field visits, and site explorations. We find it particularly hard to find photographic material from the early decades of TICCIH’s work, so we invite current and former members, partners, and friends of TICCIH to rummage their personal archives and share their photographic material with us.

Pictures should focus on TICCIH’s history and its people, and should be sent to the email address that we have created especially for this occasion: TICCIH.Anniversary@gmail.com , not later than 30th of May.

Photographic submissions must be accompanied with:
1. Name of the Contributor, Country, with email contact
2. Name of the photographer or source
3. Location, Date
4. Image caption
5. Please send the picture in the highest resolution possible

Please be aware that the images you share may be featured in public presentations, publications, exhibitions, and social media as part of our anniversary celebrations.

We can’t wait to see your photographs and celebrate this milestone together!

Additional digital materials for celebrating TICCH’s 50th Annivesary:

Below please find a series of commemorative logos that can be used in communications related to the 50th Anniversary of TICCIH. Click on the image to download each image:

Click on the following two images to download an mp4 digital animation celebrating the anniversary, in either square or rectangular format: