Museo della Bonifica
Museum in the Liberty-style pumping station of Saiarino at Campotto di Argenta, on the age-old history of land reclamation and the relationship between people and water.
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About the museum
The Museo della Bonifica is housed in the Saiarino pumping station, a splendid Liberty-style building inaugurated in 1925 by Vittorio Emanuele III, which is still active today as the heart of the land reclamation system on the right bank of the Reno. The museum tells the age-old story of the relationship between people and water in the lower Po Valley.
The route begins with a walk among the tools and machines used in land reclamation and reaches the pump room, with the six cast-iron pumps that lift the waters of the Lorgana canal. The room, decorated in Liberty style, is a monument of industrial archaeology; it also holds disused instruments and a working water-level recorder (limnigraph).
The visit also includes the thermoelectric plant with its boilers, turbine and alternator, as well as the “sala del grande click”, which shows how the old switches worked. The museum is part of the Ecomuseo di Argenta.
Highlights
- Liberty-style pumping station of 1925
- Six cast-iron pumps in the pump room
- Thermoelectric plant with boilers and turbine
- Working limnigraph
- Walk among land reclamation tools and machines
- Operated by
- Ecomuseo di Argenta (SOELIA S.p.A.)
- Visitors per year
- approx. 2,356
Admission & discounts
| Adults | €6 |
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| Reduced | €4 |
Rates listed on the website for the guided tour.
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Plan your visit
| Guided tours | yes |
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| Good to know | Visits only with a guide and by reservation, booked one week in advance, for groups of at least 5 people. |
