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The Waterworks Museum is a museum in the Chestnut Hill Waterworks building, originally a high-service pumping station of the Boston Metropolitan Waterworks. It contains well-preserved mechanical engineering devices in a Richardsonian Romanesque building.
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Waterworks Museum

Table Mountain (Nature Reserve), Cape Town, South Africa
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The Waterworks Museum is a museum in the Chestnut Hill Waterworks building, originally a high-service pumping station of the Boston Metropolitan Waterworks. It contains well-preserved mechanical engineering devices in a Richardsonian Romanesque building.

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Boston Hidden Gem | A Small But Unique Waterworks Museum
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Boston Hidden Gem | A Small But Unique Waterworks Museum
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The Water Works Museum is adjacent to the Hely-Hutchinson Reservoir and houses the equipment used to build the dams in the catchment area on Table Mountain. The original building was built in 1904 and housed the pumping station for the dam, but the museum was founded by retired engineer Terence Timoney in 1972. The original equipment faces decay but inside, the history of the construction is captured neatly. Believe it or not, the original pumping station is still functional and the volunteers who man the museum will demonstrate this if you ask them nicely ;-)
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A localização já justifica ir até lá, entre duas represas num cenário maravilhoso. Infelizmente, quando fomos estava fechado. Um cartaz indicava que visitas deviam ser agendadas.
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The Water Works Museum is adjacent to the Hely-Hutchinson Reservoir and houses the equipment used to build the dams in the catchment area on Table Mountain. The original building was built in 1904 and housed the pumping station for the dam, but the museum was founded by retired engineer Terence Timoney in 1972. The original equipment faces decay but inside, the history of the construction is captured neatly. Believe it or not, the original pumping station is still functional and the volunteers who man the museum will demonstrate this if you ask them nicely ;-)
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A localização já justifica ir até lá, entre duas represas num cenário maravilhoso. Infelizmente, quando fomos estava fechado. Um cartaz indicava que visitas deviam ser agendadas.
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The Water Works Museum is adjacent to the Hely-Hutchinson Reservoir and houses the equipment used to build the dams in the catchment area on Table Mountain.

The original building was built in 1904 and housed the pumping station for the dam, but the museum was founded by retired engineer Terence Timoney in 1972.

The original equipment faces decay but inside, the history of the construction is captured neatly.

Believe it or not, the original pumping station is still functional and the volunteers who man the museum will demonstrate this if you ask...

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9y

A really great piece of history. It is worth taking a trip here. take a picnic basket and after viewing the museum take a walk along the dam wall. There are some very nice places where you can have your picnic. At certain times of the year you can find the Disa (family Orchidaceae). A beautiful red flower. they are also found in blue...

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7y

An excellent museum with lots of artifacts, photos and information about the construction of the five dams on Table Mountain. Would have given it 4 or 5 stars if it had been open the last two times that I visited it. Unfortunately SANParks are getting worse and worse, by the month, at managing the public facilities for which they...

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