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On 4-5 June 2009 Foundation Hereditas, with the cooperation of the Polish Chamber of Artists Conservators of Works of Art, the Polish TICCHI Committee and the Open Museum of Technology Foundation, held in Warsaw a conference on “The postindustrial heritage and its culturecreating role”. Patronage over the conference was entrusted to the Mazovian Voivodeship Conservator of Historical Monuments, and its host was the Mazovian Culture and Art Centre. The debates were accompanied by an exhibition of photographs by Piotr G. Mądrach: ”The Ironworks in Chlewiska” and ”The Ironworks in Starachowice”. The second day of the meeting involved studio tours of selected post-industrial sites in Warsaw. One of the fundamental objectives of the conference was a discussion about the adaptation of post-industrial buildings for new purposes. The debates included presentations of selected monuments of technology and complexes of post-industrial development at home and abroad as well as the adaption initiatives conducted within their range, considered from the viewpoint of conservation and investments. Other topics were connected with the popularisation by the museums of values introduced by industrial heritage.