The Museum of the tap and its technology is located in the province of Novara and exhibits taps, showing their technological evolution over time and man's relationship with water and how he managed to dominate it and exploit it for his own purposes. The purpose of this structure is to raise awareness of responsible use of water, so that everyone can access it.
The Museum of the Tap and its Technology in San Maurizio d’Opaglio is unique in the world; it deals with the fascinating and atavistic subject of the suffered relationship of man with water in a path from which the journey of humanity re-emerges from an unusual point of view: the history of hygiene and technological innovations (of which taps and valves are the fundamental components) that have allowed to dominate the liquid element, transforming body care from a luxury practice for the few to a mass phenomenon.
The museum project therefore intends to retrace the social history of water and innovations, resulting in the rise of the industrial district of the tap and valves in the Cusio area.
The Museum is not the only municipality of San Maurizio d’Opaglio, but is the expression of a larger territorial and productive district, linked by profound economic and cultural interactions.
Reconstructing the history of the tap and valve industry in the Novara area means retracing the industrial and social history of post-unification Italy.
A world in which the development of large cities sets the pace for a change that is both economic, social, technological and cultural.
Museum of the tap and its technology
Address: Piazza Martiri, 1, 28017
Phone: +39 0323 89622
Site:
http://www.museodelrubinetto.it/Location inserted by
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