The Global gashistorical Network
Preserving the Gas Industry’s Heritage
manager of The Danish Gas Museum, Hobro
The gas industry has an exciting future, but as well as looking forward to new challenges it is important to preserve our heritage.
This is why we have launched a project to help preserve the history of gas for the future by developing a special website. The aim is to integrate gas museums and collections worldwide into a virtual network and provide information to the general public.
At this time of liberalisation and restructuring in the industry it is essential to preserve the history of gas, including collections and archives, for the future.
Website and exhibition
So far we have had very positive responses from many parts of the world. One of our first steps has been to create this joint website with links to project partners within the IGU framework.
Thanks to a great gesture from the organizers of the World Gas Conference in Amsterdam in June 2006, and to assistance from France, Russia, England and The Netherlands, the network was able to present an exhibition including 13 posters about the history of gas at the RAI conference center.
This event was a great experience with many new contacts and informations, that hopefully will boost to the future work for preserving the history of gas. Further details are listed here.
Content from the posters is collected in a PDF-file, which can be downloaded here. (2,3 MB)
Please inform the project’s task force about possible contributions. The project leader is Jacob Fentz, International Coordinator at Naturgas Midtnord.
More information wanted
Gas museums and collections can be found in several places around the world. One of them is the Danish Gas Museum described on a separate page, and we would like to encourage others to tell about their museums an about possible plans and initiatives.
These contributions could be the starting point for a website dedicated to the historical development of gas.
Please email plans and ideas to gasgas2@image.dk.
Projekt leader Jacob Fentz can be contacted at jaf@midtnord.dk
About History
"History is never past. History is what connects past and present, history shows its way to the future. If we don't know history, we don't know ourselves. Without history, we are lost."
Jacques Le Goff,
French historican