The first sewage treatment plant in Gliwice was put into operation in 1911. Today’s museum was one of the buildings of that plant. The museum is located in an over one hundred-year-old, thoroughly renovated building of the former intermediate sewage pumping station, partly single-storeyed, partly two-storeyed, built of the red brick. The building, which is unique in the country, is the youngest museum in Gliwice, yet its exhibits shaped the history of the sewage system of Gliwice, and some of them even come straight from our grandmothers’ bathrooms. The program of the tour also includes a visit to the modern buildings and equipment of the Central Sewage Treatment Plant (including a laboratory of the fully automated dispatch room).
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At present, the Museum of Sanitary Engineering is located in the building of the former intermediate pumping station. Its construction resembles a little mansion. Partially single-storeyed, partly two-storeyed, built of red brick, it is a typical example of the architecture from the end of the 19th century. Originally, the sewage treatment plant was equipped with power generators which produced electric energy out of biogas. Generators are still used in the sewage treatment plant, which illustrates how advanced was the first plant. Near the Museum, there is Kłodnica River, which even until the end of the 19th c. served residents of Gliwice to take water from. However, water consumption was considerably different than today - at the beginning of the 20th c., in Gliwice, it was about 36 litres per day, while now it is 130 litres.
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