The structure of the Museum stimulates a physical-rational-emotional participation: the body, the mind and the hearth work together in order to explain the transformation of a drop of water into electric power.

 

Let’s enter: we are in a big hall. In front of us a big picture shows us the old engine room in use.

The spheres’ room take us between earth and sky: we are in the atmosphere, we go into the clouds, the rain, the wind, the storms, the snow. A double videoprojection on opposing semispheres makes the history of transformations start. The drop goes down, it joins a stream and it flows into a river.

The spheres’ room.

The Museum tells the construction and the operating method of the dams and the big hydroelectric works: on a large and curved surface, which reminds the shape of a dam, there are models of dams and dykes.

Sideways, through a series of old documentaries and art shortfilms, projections tell the epic story of the great hydroelectric works, the history of the construction of reservoirs, pipelines, canals and water works often made at a high altitude.

The dams’ room.

A big iron cylinder leads to a new material and sensory experience: accompanied by a roaring noise, we cross a penstock.

The passage in the penstock.

We are in the ex engine room, where there is a waterwheel-alternator from 1903, similar to the one used in the plant when it was in production. With the help of some video screens and animated cartoons, we can discover the secrets of this complex system. The narrative allows us to understand how the machines work and to explore the electric and electromagnetic fields, revealing the mysteries of the hydroelectric production.

The engine room.

Games.

At the end of the path, there is the Tree of the Electricity, formed by a group of historic trusses and by a big spark of bright shafts.

The Tree of the Electricity.

The electrostatic theatre and the electric bar.

Educational laboratories

The proposal is targeted at children between 8 and 14 years old and it is aimed to bring together the workshop activity with a guided tour to a museum that tells the history of hydroelectric plants Vallecamonica.



 

The didactic laboratories

Depliant "Educational laboratories" [ITA]

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Booklet "Notes relating to the experiences carried out in the didactic laboratories of the Museum of hydroelectric power of Cedegolo" [ITA]

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The plant of Cedegolo, at the base of the Museum, was built between 1909 and 1910 by the Electric Society of Brescia in order to take advantage of the fall of the water in the Malonno municipality, on the right orographical side of the Oglio river; with the nationalization of electricity, the plant became property of the Enel and it kept working from 1910 up until 1962 when, for technical reasons, it ended its production and it became a storage wareshouse for the hydrolectric system of the valley.

The engine room of the plant of Cedegolo in a period photo (Foto Negri).

(Foto Negri).

(Foto Negri).

(Foto Negri).

Address and contact

Museum of Hydroelectric power of Valcamonica

Via Roma 48 - 25051 Cedegolo - Brescia, Italy - Map
Tel. +39 0364 61 196
Web: http://www.musilcedegolo.it

For reservations and information about guided tours and educational labs:
Tel. +39 342 84 75 113 - museodellenergia@gmail.com


For reservations and information about guided tours in combination with the guided tour at the Edolo power plant: Cooperativa Inexodus - Tel. +39 0364 62 21 79 - segreteria@inexodus.it

 

Tickets

INDIVIDUAL
- Standard ticket: € 4
- Reduced ticket (over 65 years old): € 3
- Ticker for children under 6 years and carers: free

GUIDED TOURS / EDUCATIONAL LABS

Groups	Guided tours	Educational labs	Guided tours + Educational labs	Dinner room
at least 11 people	€ 5/person	€ 7/person	€ 10/person	€ 2/person
up to 10 persons	€ 55/group	€ 77/group	€ 110/group	€ 22/group

 

Opening times

Ordinary opening: from April to November

April – May – June – September – October – November

Friday	Saturnday	Sunday
14:00-18:00	14:00-18:00	14:00-18:00

July - Augusti

Thursday	Friday	Saturnday	Sunday
14:00-19:00	14:00-19:00	14:00-19:00	14:00-19:00

The museum is always open, by reservation.
Guided tours and educational laboratories are available all months, by reservation.
The warmed dining room is available, on request, for packed lunches.

Guidebook "musil musil museum of hydroelectric power" [ITA]

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