At the same high rate as Gothenburg's buildings are now being transformed and renewed, the city's historic port and industrial environments are disappearing. The knowledge base required to take industrial history into account in this renewal is weak. We have therefore begun a port and industrial history inventory of Gothenburg. The project has been initiated by the Gothenburg City Museum and a preliminary study and pilot inventory has been carried out under their auspices. Further inventory is being carried out independently by us, the industrial antiquities experts Ida Dicksson and Lena Knutson Udd, with the Gothenburg City Museum as a reference group. The inventory is divided into 13 stages and is being carried out in stages as funds can be obtained. The inventory will focus on physical remains such as buildings, cranes, docks, quays, etc. to increase insight into how this identity-creating cultural heritage has enriched and shaped Gothenburg, the possibility of taking greater account of this history in the city's renewal and the possibility of communicating this knowledge to residents and visitors. The inventory of each area will result in a public and richly illustrated text that will be freely available on the internet, as well as maps and inventory forms that can be used by architects and urban planners in Q-gis. The material produced will also be designed so that it can be published in its entirety as a book. Funding to complete a book is only sought after the entire inventory has been completed.