The headquarters of the Catalan museum of Science and Technology
(mNACTEC) is in the city of Terrassa, in a former woollen mill in modernist style -
the Vapor Aymerich, Amat i Jover - it was built between 1907 and 1908 by the
architect Lluís Muncunill. Currently, the mNACTEC offers exceptional contents in
the permanent exhibitions : Lluís Muncunill, architecture for industry, Homo Faber,
The Woollen Mill, Enérgeia, Transport, The Carillon, The Photovoltaic Wall and
renewable energy : The mNACTEC system articulate a Territorial museums of
science and technique that comprises 20 museums (mining, textile printing, model
villages...) so that people understand the industrialisation in Catalonia.
The Llobregat river has the greatest concentration of factories and textile industry
colonies in Europe, constructed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. The introduction of industry in the Llobregat river zone was closely
related to mining activities (resources included calcareous rock, oil, coal, salt and
clays) as well as to the exploitation of the river itself with hydroelectric power
generation by the turbines of the factories and industrial colonies.
