Museu d'Història de Barcelona Casa de l'Aigua

District: Nou Barris

Neighborhood: la Trinitat Nova

Transports
Torrent de la Perera, s/n (08033)
How to get there

The Casa de l'Aigua is a major heritage site from the history of the city's water supply and the projects to try to establish and consolidate a public water supply system in the 20th century. It is made up of the pumping station, in the Trinitat Vella neighborhood, the underground gallery that crosses Meridiana Avenue and through which the pipeline runs, and the receiving station and treatment plant, with a tank with a capacity for 10,000 cubic meters of water. , in the Trinitat Nova neighborhood.

Currently, its use as a museum is innovatively combined with other social and cultural uses at the two ends of the gallery that connects the Trinitat Vella lift station with the Trinitat Nova depot. Throughout the tour of the heritage complex and the exhibition spaces that mark the visit, the museum space shows a double retrospective, on the city and on the nearby neighborhoods, from a fundamental point of view for any city: having water. The space and activities have been conceived in the format of a laboratory museum.

Activities carried out there