Museu de les Aigües Cornellà de Llobregat

The Water Museum, located in Cornellà de Llobregat, is a unique space that combines industrial heritage, science, and sustainability to offer an educational and recreational experience centered around water. Housed in the historic Cornellà Power Plant, a water extraction and pumping plant inaugurated in 1909, the museum is still in operation and supplies water to more than three million people in the Barcelona metropolitan area.

LOCATION

It occupies the modernist buildings of the Central Cornellà, the plant that Aigües de Barcelona opened in 1909 to extract water from the Llobregat aquifer and thus cover Barcelona.

Today, the Cornellà Power Plant continues to perform the same function it did a century ago, and the original steam hydraulic system coexists with modern pumping stations. Thus, the Museum is also, at the same time, a working industry, a place where past and present intertwine over a common substrate: groundwater.

But above all, the Museum is a living space, designed to bring forth the diverse manifestations and approaches to water, through a range of exhibitions and activities for all audiences.

Educational activities

Through education, we aim to move toward a more sustainable and environmentally friendly society that values the importance of water in our lives. For this reason, we have created a program tailored to different educational levels.

The program encourages contextualized work on the entire water cycle, sustainability, and the Sustainable Development Goals linked to future water challenges.

The Water Museum offers a wide range of activities for different ages and interests:

• Guided tours: discover how the plant works and the history of Barcelona's water supply.
  
• Family workshops: hands-on experiences to learn about water in a fun way.
  
• Educational activities: program adapted to different school levels to work on the water cycle and sustainability
  
• Digital Experiences: Virtual tours, interactive games, and online activities to explore the museum from home.

The Cornellà de Llobregat Water Museum offers an educational and recreational experience centered around water, combining industrial heritage, science, and sustainability in a unique modernist setting.