 | :. The creation of today’s National Museum of Science and Technology was an old Catalan ambition. The Association of Engineers, which drove the project forward from 1976, had already tried to set up a museum at the end of the 19th century.
The Generalitat Republicana signed an order to set up a museum that would make Catalonia’s industrialisation well known.
The Civil War and the subsequent dictatorship of General Franco frustrated the project, and it stayed forgotten until the 1970s. During this time, the Catalan Association of Industrial Engineers again took up the initiative to found a museum of science and technology and in 1979 it established the Association of the Museum of Science and Technology and of Industrial Archaeology of Catalonia, with the intention of unite the forces to create a new Museum and to preserve the industrial heritage.
In 1982, the Culture Department of the Generalitat took over the project and in 1983 it bought the Aymerich, Amat i Jover mill, an old woollen factory in Terrassa, with the aim of turning it into the home of the museum.
According to the Museum Law of 2 November 1990, it was declared a National Museum and was established as an independent institution.
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