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Tarragona Port Museum

Tarragona Port Museum

Located in a former goods warehouse at the Moll de Costa dock, the Tarragona Port Museum is a cultural and leisure venue showcasing the commercial, fishing and sporting activities of the Port of Tarragona. The Museum offers an interactive and immersive tour of a range of different experiences: discover a ship engine, steer...

Cultural Site of the Canals of Urgell

Cultural Site of the Canals of Urgell

The Cultural Site of the Canals of Urgell ('ECCU') occupies the whole ground floor of Mollerussa's landmark building, the 'Casa Canal'. The structure was built between 1867 and 1876 by Domingo Cardenal Gandasegui, the engineer who built the Canals of Urgell, to administer and distribute the water from the canals. The ECCU ...

Barcelona Fire Brigade Site

Barcelona Fire Brigade Site

Housed in the former Poble Sec Fire Station, the Barcelona Fire Brigade Site serves as a museum exhibition telling the story of more than 190 years of the Barcelona Fire Service, through a number of heritage exhibits and their links to the city. The Site likewise features a training and education centre focused on risk preven...

Terracotta Museum of Ceramics, La Bisbal d’Empordà

Terracotta Museum of Ceramics, La Bisbal d’Empordà

The Terracotta Museum reveals the history and process of the ceramics trade in La Bisbal d’Empordà. The Museum likewise serves to promote this industrial activity, which remains very much alive in the town. The fact that the Museum is located in an industrial building serves to integrate a series of distinctive architec...

Can Marfà Knitwear. Museum of Mataró

Can Marfà Knitwear. Museum of Mataró

Can Marfà, the magnificent late 19th century industrial building which had previously been the most important knitwear factory in Mataró, still stores up memories of a fundamental part of Catalonia's textile history. The Museum offers a tour through unique collections evoking stories, characters, industrial techniques an...

Torelló Lathing Museum

Torelló Lathing Museum

The in Torrelló Lathing Museum reveals the world of lathes and lathing, an activity with centuries of history, with a continued role in our daily life in the modern era. The tour presents the process of industrialisation in Catalonia through the traditional craft of wood and horn turning, which then became a notable indus...

Manresa Water and Textile Museum

Manresa Water and Textile Museum

Standing in the city of Manresa, inside one of the huge water tanks of the 19th century, the Water and Textile Museum presents two of the region's most important single-subject collections: the first connected with the mediaeval Séquia de Manresa canal, and the second, covering the evolution of the ribbon industry, the thin ...

Gerri de la Sal Museum

Gerri de la Sal Museum

The Gerri de la Sal Museum is housed in the former Reial Alfolí, or salt store, declared a Cultural Site of National Interest ('BCIN') in 1995, and dating back to the 18th century. The site displays the process of producing, processing and marketing mountain salt between the 18th and 20th centuries. Visitors to the Museum...

Fassina Balanyà Museum, Espluga de Francolí

Fassina Balanyà Museum, Espluga de Francolí

La Fassina Balanyà in Espluga de Francolí is an old distillery dating back to 1830, restored and conditioned to allow visitors to discover the industrial process followed by grape pomace (skin, stalks and seeds) to obtain pomace brandy and other derivatives. As the building was abandoned without being converted to any other...

La Rajoleta Ceramics Museum, Esplugues de Llobregat

La Rajoleta Ceramics Museum, Esplugues de Llobregat

The Museum is located on the site of the former Pujol i Bausis factory, which produced architectural ceramics and was a major name in the Catalan Modernist movement. They produced tiles and other items used to decorate buildings and spaces declared World Heritage Sites, including the Hospital de Sant Pau and Park Güell. T...

Catalan Railway Museum, Vilanova i la Geltrú

Catalan Railway Museum, Vilanova i la Geltrú

The Railway Museum of Catalonia is housed at the former steam locomotive depot in Vilanova i la Geltrú, alongside the station. The facility began as a rail industry site, before becoming a museum in the 21st century, offering a train journey through time courtesy of innovative formats. The Museum features exhibits, buildi...

Salvador Claret Automobile Collection

Salvador Claret Automobile Collection

Founded by Salvador Claret i Naspleda (1909-1984), the Salvador Claret Automobile Collection is made up of more than 200 Spanish and foreign cars, motorcycles, velocipedes, stationary engines and aviation material. The Collection prioritises the preservation of Spanish makes not only of automobiles and motorcycles, but als...

Museum Trepat in Tàrrega

Museum Trepat in Tàrrega

The Trepat Museum in Tàrrega is housed on the premises of the former J. Trepat agricultural machinery factory. Such distinctive agricultural machines as sifters, harvesters, binders and others which transformed life and work in the countryside were manufactured and marketed here. Cal Trepat is a unique and distinctive sit...

Capdella Hydroelectric Museum

Capdella Hydroelectric Museum

The Capdella Hydroelectric Museum explains the origin and evolution of the Capdella power plant, the first major hydroelectric power plant in Catalonia, which began operation in 1914, as well as the social impact of electrification of the country. The hydroelectric complex supplied electricity to the Barcelona conurbation to ...

La Tèrmica Roca Umbert in Granollers

La Tèrmica Roca Umbert in Granollers

Discover the fascinating story of energy production on a visit to the Roca Umbert factory, a visitor centre explaining the world of energy through the industrial heritage of Granollers. This former textile mill had its own energy generation system in operation for more than forty years. Here you will see the engines, boile...

Àreu Saw Mill

Àreu Saw Mill

The Pyreneean village of Àreu (Alins) has preserved a saw and flour mill formerly powered by the waters of the river. A wheel with vertical blades drove the saw mill, while a horizontal wheel powered the flour mill. The saw mill was built in the 19th century, but was damaged by flooding. The current saw mill was modernise...

Bellmunt del Priorat Mining Museum

Bellmunt del Priorat Mining Museum

El Priorat is and always been a mainly agricultural region, but mining has also played an important role over the course of history, with periods of greater or lesser intensity. During the 20th century, the mining basin of El Priorat was Catalonia's most important lead-producing district, with the Eugènia the most importa...

Móra la Nova Railway Museum

Móra la Nova Railway Museum

The Móra la Nova Railway Museum is housed in the town's railway complex. Visitors to the Museum have the chance to discover historic railway installations, the Direct Line still linking Barcelona and Madrid, and train culture in the broader sense. One of the Museum's key attractions is its collection of railway rolling st...

Ter Museum

Ter Museum

We are based in Manlleu, in a privileged riverside setting, where visitors can learn about the distinctive process of Catalonia's inland industrialisation, thanks to the force of the waters of the River Ter and its natural attributes. The Ter Museum is housed in the former cotton spinning mill of Can Sanglas, dating back t...

Cercs Mining Museum

Cercs Mining Museum

The Cercs Mining Museum, dedicated specifically to coal, covers the technique and history of the sector, while also serving as a visitor centre explaining the relationship between this fossil fuel and the geological, economic and human context and landscape of the Alt Berguedà district. Housed in the Sant Corneli mining t...

Museum of Cork of Catalonia

Museum of Cork of Catalonia

The Cork Museum of Catalonia invites visitors on an appealing, interactive journey through the world of cork, with something for all ages: from the cork woods to the factories, and from the factories to markets all round the world, from the 18th century down to the present day, without neglecting exhibits from ancient times...

Castelló d’Empúries Eco-museum and Flour Mill

Castelló d’Empúries Eco-museum and Flour Mill

Over a hundred years have passed since the old Molí del Mig in Castelló d’Empúries was turned into a modern flour mill running on technological innovations imported from Europe. La Farinera, as it is known, has now become a museum, preserving on site all the machinery involved in the industrial process of converting whea...

Igualada Leather Museum and Anoia District Museum

Igualada Leather Museum and Anoia District Museum

The Igualada Leather Museum and Anoia District Museum, and the former Cal Granotes tannery, are located in one of the country's most distinctive industrial neighbourhoods: El Rec in Igualada, considered Europe's most important industrial architectural collection of active tanneries. The Museum forms part of the Leather Clu...

Capellades Paper Mill Museum

Capellades Paper Mill Museum

The Museum is housed in the former La Vila mill, alongside La Bassa, a natural spring from which 12 million litres of water formerly flowed every day. The water was fed into channels to be used by the 16 paper mills, known as the La Costa Mills. Thanks to the abundance of water and this privileged geographical setting, dur...

Castellar de n’Hug Cement Factory

Castellar de n’Hug Cement Factory

The Asland cement factory was founded in 1901 by Eusebi Güell at the Clot del Moro site in the borough of Castellar de n’Hug, and was in operation up until 1975. The architect Rafael Guastavino was the man behind the design of the factory complex, with its notable use of cast iron structures and a construction technique us...

Colònia Sedó Museum, Esparreguera

Colònia Sedó Museum, Esparreguera

The Colònia Sedó in Esparreguera, founded in 1846, was the first Catalan textile industry company town, and the largest to be built in Catalonia. The Colònia Sedó Museum presents the story of this huge industrial complex, individual spaces and distinctive hydraulic energy production system. The tour reveals the history...

Farga Palau, Ripoll

Farga Palau, Ripoll

La Farga Palau in Ripoll was set up as an iron forge in the 17th century, and remained in operation for four centuries up until 1978. Aside from being the only forge in Catalonia still producing copper up until the second half of the 20th century, the most distinctive features of the Palau forge are the two hydraulic drop ham...

National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia

National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia

The National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia (MNACTEC) focuses on showcasing scientific, technical and industrial knowledge and heritage, with a particular emphasis on their social impact. It preserves the most important tangible records of humanity's technical ingenuity, as well as key exhibits invented or m...