The International Council of Museums (ICOM) has proposed to the international museum community that in 2010 should aim its activity at building bridges to exchange, tolerance and coexistence as ways towards pluralism and respect for difference. This commitment to a future based on achieving a more democratic culture and spreading an integrating model without social inequalities or aggressions against the environment focuses this year’s slogan: Museums for Social Harmony.

One of the lines of work of the Museu de la Ciència i de la Tècnica de Catalunya (Science and Technology Museum of Catalonia), committed as a national museum to the deployment of actions that will promote scientific, technological and industrial knowledge, is the programming of actions that foster social cohesion. The Museum and City programme focuses on the scheduling of activities designed for a local public, in our case Terrassa and the third metropolitan ring, which will improve the perception and the social role of the museum. Terrassa, with a population of over 200,000, located in a district with over 600,000 inhabitants, has a number of potential visitors that make it necessary to plan this programme. The presentation in 2009 of the exhibition Another Way of Looking, created by the Red Cross, and work on Terrassa Council’s own schemes, such as the Industrial Tourism Routes, the Modernista Fair or the Terrassa City Festival, are some of the activities designed to involve visitors. In just a few years they have been consolidated by the great participation and the diversity of audiences that have enjoyed them.