Silesian Industrial Monuments Route

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Silesian Industrial Monuments Route or precisely The Industrial Monuments Route of the Silesian Voivodeship (Szlak Zabytków Techniki Województwa Śląskiego, often shortened to Szlak Zabytków Techniki or SZT) is a themed, automobile tourist and cultural route in the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland, linking sites associated with the region's industrial heritage. The route currently comprises 42 sites connected with industries such as mining, metallurgy, power generation, rail transport, communications, textiles, water production and the food industry; it includes museums, inhabited workers' settlements and operating industrial facilities owned by a mix of local governments and private and public entities.

The route was established by a resolution of the Silesian Voivodeship Board on 21 June 2005; its official opening took place on 19 October 2006 (in the then Tychy Brewing Museum).

According to the route's management regulations, the administrator is the Silesian Voivodeship, while day-to-day operation has been carried out by the Coal Mining Museum in Zabrze since 2020 (as the route operator).

The route is associated with Industriada, an annual festival devoted to industrial heritage and organised across participating sites.

The Industrial Monuments Route includes 42 sites (as of 1 January 2023), as listed by the route operator.