MNACTEC, Technology museum in Terrassa, Spain
The mNACTEC is a technology museum housed in a former factory building featuring curved arches and bent windows that spread across 11,000 square meters. Inside, scientific exhibits and machines from different periods of industrial development are displayed.
The building was originally a textile factory that operated until 1978, when floods caused damage and led to closure. The museum concept emerged later to preserve the industrial past of this city.
The museum shows how industry shaped daily life in this region and what role textile manufacturing played in society. Visitors can see old machines and tools that people actually operated.
The museum provides visitors with orientation through the large spaces and explains how to reach the different exhibition areas. Most visitors can walk comfortably through the halls, as the pathways are well laid out.
The building's columns had a special construction that simultaneously supported looms, drained rainwater, and held machinery drive shafts. This clever engineering solution shows how practically factory architecture was planned.
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