On stage (and down a mine!): museum volunteers present industrial-heritage research in Kiruna, Sweden 

Cambridge Museum of Technology volunteers presented research at The International Committee for Conservation of Industrial Heritage 2025 conference in Kiruna, Sweden (25-30 August 2025).  

Kieran Gleave, Cambridge Museum of Technology volunteer

Kieran Gleave, PhD candidate at Cambridge University, presented Beyond Industrial Heritage: exploring community identities through the everyday legacies of industry, which included a summary of research undertaken in Cambridge and Manchester. 

Gordon Davies produced a video-essay: Industrial Architecture as Cinematic Stage, an extract of work-in-progress research previewed at Cambridge Industrial Archaeology Group (CIAG)

TICCIH, celebrating its 50th anniversary, hosted several hundred researchers and practitioners from around the world at the event. Highlights included trips to the local iron-ore mines and Saami communities: 

Above: Kiruna’s mining geology displayed in LKAB mine 

Below: digger (left), former Kiruna town tram (right) exhibited in LKAB mine (photos: Gordon Davies: CC-BY-SA.4.0)

Participants could also visit Kiruna church (on wheels), which had generated international-press attention when transported earlier in August 2025. 

Kiruna church, SE

Photo: Kieran Gleave CC-BY-SA-4.0

Interested in exploring more industrial heritage? 
Join Cambridge Industrial Archaeology Group at Cambridge Museum of TechnologY

For those interested in exploring more industrial heritage in Cambridge, CIAG – an affiliate society of The Association for Industrial Archaeology – meets regularly throughout the year in the Pye Building, Cambridge Museum of Technology.  

For the meeting programme: 

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