 | :. 25 museums to present and interpret the industrialisation of Catalonia
Catalonia was one of the first countries in the Mediterranean to begin its process of industrialisation during the first third of the XIX century. One of its main characteristics was a wide dispersion over the whole region but with specialisation in particular areas. Its impact was so strong that Catalan culture over the past 150 years has been, for the most part, an industrial culture, produced by the scientific, technological, social and economic changes that the process of industrialisation brought with it.
The Museu de la Ciència i de la Tècnica de Catalunya considers one of its most important aims to be the preservation of the industrial heritage, through which it explains the industrialisation of Catalonia as one of the most significant characteristics of its national personality. It is for this that the System of the Museu de la Ciència i de la Tècnica de Catalunya was set up, with different museums grouped together, each one different from the others in the sense that they explain a theme or the industrialisation of some particular part of the region, taking into account technical as well as social and cultural aspects. The museums of the System explain the industrialisation of Catalonia, either through their collections and/or by interpreting the different industries that there have been and of which there are still comprehensible remains constituting our industrial heritage.
Legally, the museums are classified in three categories: home museums, which are owned or managed by the mNACTEC; sections, which are museums declared as such by the Executive Council of the Generalitat de Catalunya according to the museum legislation; and collaborating museums, with which agreements have been signed and which co-ordinate their museum activities. The activities organised in common are approved by the committee of directors and the people responsible for the museums and make up the programmes that are the pivot between the different sites. |
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