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ERIH-Ankerpunt Oyfo Techniekmuseum, Oyfo Kunst en Techniek

The HEIM Foundation, Hengelo's Educational and Industrial Museum, founded from the Industrial Archaeology Working Group of Oald Hengel - now Museum Hengelo - is the founder of the Engineering Museum HEIM, now Oyfo Engineering Museum, founded in 1983.

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ERIH-Ankerpunt Oyfo Techniekmuseum, Oyfo Kunst en Techniek
OYFO TECHNIEKMUSEUM
Industriestraat 9
7553 CK Hengelo
REGIO TWENTE
Nederland

History

Until deep into the 19th century, there is a lot of cottage industry in Twente. Especially in the field of textiles. Weaving was done with hand looms. After 1830 the steam engine made its appearance and in 1854 Charles Theodorus Stork established his steam-powered weaving goods factory in Hengelo. He then also moves his machine factory from Borne to this town. Thanks in part to Stork, Hengelo arrives at a crossroads of railroads. Industry flourished.

Shortly after 1900, the arrival of two electro-technical companies laid the foundation for the further expansion of the town. R.W.H. Hofstede Crull moves his Twentsch Central Station for Electric Power Supply from Borne to Hengelo and establishes the Heemaf, the Hengelosche Electrische en Mechanische Apparaten Fabriek. Here also Floris Hazemeijer is employed. He is the founder of Hazemeyer, factory for electrical switchboards, switches for low and medium voltage, which in 1963 merged into Holec, later Eaton.

At the time, Holland Signal (now Thales) and Holec (now Eaton) provided the museum with finances and housing in the former Twentsch Central Station on Bornsestraat in Hengelo.

Thanks to a donation from energy company IJsselmij, the building could be refurbished. Stork and Akzo Nobel also supported the museum at the time.

 

In 2005, the museum moved to the Wilhelmina School on the Industriestraat.

The building, now designated a national monument, was commissioned by C.T. Stork in 1917. The design for the school in neo-Renaissance style was by architect Karel Muller.

The school served as an "industry school" for the future employees of the Stork factories and the Dikkers foundry. After World War II, it housed a high school.

The museum has built up a varied collection since its founding and currently manages over 3,000 objects. The basis of this collection lies in the genesis of industry in Hengelo and Twente. The heritage in our museum consists not only of objects. There is a museum library with more than 500 technical and historical works, an extensive archive of periodicals, company publications, drawings, photographs and films.

Since 2015, arts center CREA Center for Arts Education and Engineering Museum HEIM have merged. As of January 1, 2017, the Music School Hengelo also joined this merger.

Together one organization for art, technology and heritage under the new name: Oyfo Art & Technology.

(source: oyfo.nl)
 

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