Industrial heritage consists of material remains of industrial culture that have historical, technological, social, architectural, cultural and scientific value. The term industrial archeology appeared in the 1950s, at the same time that industry in Europe began to stagnate. Industrial archeology is an interdisciplinary science that studies all kinds of historical sources: documents, artifacts, human settlements as well as natural and urban landscapes created for or by industry, with the aim of affirming that category of heritage in the context of social and technical history in order to understand our industrial past and present. The industrial heritage of Serbia is part of the European scientific and cultural heritage.