Catalonia's scientific, technological and industrial heritage is an active generator of educational ideas –essential for encouraging interest in science amongst young people– as well as a dynamising element of museum activity. Thanks to a wide range of initiatives distributed across the region, there has been a strengthening in technology and science activities offering new ways of looking at the area of industrial heritage. It is a heritage as close to us as it is unknown by new generations who have to rediscover Catalonia's industrial past and, at the same time, work to research and develop the new industrial processes of the future.
The Department of Media and Culture strives to promote, preserve and inform about that heritage as a cohesive element in the region. For this reason, the added value that industrial heritage brings to educational activities is a resource of great importance for developing interest in science and technology amongst children and young people. The visits, workshops and guided tours offered by the 22 centres that make up the National Museum of Science and Technology's Regional System not only suggest new and attractive dimensions to science, technology and industrial heritage but, at the same time, also constitute an excellent vision of local dynamism and the projection of Catalonia towards the future.