In order to rescue the monastery from the process of degradation affecting it, Caixa Manresa acquired the site with the express aim of restoring it and making the monastery available to everybody, fully equipped for the present day and with a plan for the future that guarantees the conservation and the value of this 1000-year-old piece of heritage. In order to explain Sant Benet's 1000-year history, two tours have been prepared. The first, called “1000 Years of the Monastery” includes the most monumental part: visits to the church, crypt, cloister, wine cellar and the 18 th -century monastic dependencies are used to explain its history. This tour, which takes you from the Middle Ages to the Baroque period, is conducted by the monastery's last abbot, Bernat Garrich, who appears in various audiovisual presentations, starting with the most spectacular, which can be seen in the church.
The interpretative idea is very new, using modern audiovisual systems but also integrating lighting effects, music, and staged reconstructions of spaces and periods, such as, for example, the church's consecration, in which one of the most emotional and significant of religious ceremonies is reconstructed with all the rigour and respect called for by such a cultural project, the space and its history.
The second tour, called “A Day in the Life of Ramon Casas”, is a tour through the various buildings that Ramon Casas' family converted into a sumptuous summer house. Visitors are transported back to a day in July 1924, when the Ramon Casas family arrived to spend the summer holidays at Sant Benet. The tour is an opportunity for us to get to know something of the life of an upper-middle-class Catalan family and is accompanied by the voices and recollections of a variety of people; a way to find out about the creative process of a modernist painter. The Món Sant Benet site is also noteworthy for an exceptional, unique idea: the Alicia Foundation, a centre dedicated to technological research into cooking and informing people about good nutrition.
Món Sant Benet sees itself as a high-level, cultural-leisure complex, able to turn the monastery site into a centre of attraction for tourists and more specifically for cultural tourism with all the challenges implied by this activity in its economic and heritage aspect.

From April 24th – 27th 2008, Madrid hosted the ninth edition of the Madrid is Science Fair, attended by close to 160,000 visitors. The fair was located at the IFEMA Exhibition Centre on two sites occupying 28,000m2 and with more than 500 science-related activities seeking to take science out of its usual locations, such as the classroom, laboratories, museums and research centres and bring it closer to the general public.
Public and private universities, research centres, museums, public administrations and private companies were all represented, as well as infant, primary, secondary and post-compulsory educational centres where children and young people played a leading part.
One part of the fair was given over to organisations from other communities in Spain. The Catalan Museum of Science and Technology took part, offering information about the mNACTEC Regional System.
The idea was welcomed warmly and with interest by both the Madrid public and the organisers themselves, allowing the Regional System to open new doors beyond Catalonia and persuading people to join in with the latest interactive activities from the permanent exhibition “Gas and Petrol: energy from fossils”.