The Yverdon Museum and Region devotes its new temporary exhibition to the economic crisis following the 1973 oil shock, which resulted in deindustrialization of the North Vaudois. The event is to be seen until January 11th.
The economic crisis had provoked “a real earthquake in the North of Vaud”, especially since in the late 1960s, the region was akin to “an Eldorado punctuated by factory work”, the organizers said in a statement. Indeed, at the time “more than half of the active population of Yverdon and Sainte-Croix was employed in the industry”.
The liquidation of omnipresent long factories had caused concern, misunderstanding and sometimes anger. It had been experienced as the end of a golden age and had forced a whole region to reinvent itself, they still specify.
-Successful metamorphosis
The latter, however, succeeded in its moult, since the opposite of “famous ghost cities” like Detroit or Minneapolis in the United States, Yverdon was able to demonstrate “remarkable resilience and dynamism” from the 1990s. “Urban wasteland born from industrial reflux constitute today a fertile soil for associative experiences and the development of poles.
Entitled “ON Farm!”, The exhibition offers a selection of some 500 objects, tools, photos, machines, clothes or archive boxes given to the museum as part of a collection of industrial heritage initiated since 2023 in partnership with the Participatory History Platform NOSTHISTORY.CH.
This article was published automatically. Source: ATS
