The Museum is housed in the engine room of the Amolara pumping station, a neoclassical style building designed by engineer Cesare De Lotto in 1853 for the ”drainage of the Lower Old Campaign consortium by means of water wheels driven by steam engines“.
After the closure of the pumping station, which took place in 1992, there followed inevitable degradation until in 1997 Giuseppe Marangoni, director of the cooperative Tourism & Culture, proposed to the Polesine Adige – Canalbianco Reclamation Consortium the reuse of the building by transforming it into a multipurpose center that hosts a Museum of the history of water civilization, a laboratory for naturalistic engineering research, a conference center, a tourist information office, and the Amolara Hostel to welcome visitors to the city of Adria and the Po Delta Natural Park.
Information about Septem Maria Museum
Via Capitello, 11
45011 Adria (Rovigo)
042521530
cedi@turismocultura.it
Source: MIBACT
