Museums
Fray Bentos has an Industrial Revolution Museum in the former meat processing factory of the Liebig Extract of Meat Company where thousands of people worked. When it was shut down the opportunity for the creation of a unique museum was taken, where the original machinery and social and cultural artefacts of the technological revolution in Fray Bentos can be shown to the world. The museum shows, for tourism and educational purposes, the machinery used in the meat and extract of meat process, the buildings, an 1893 Merryweather water pumping machine, a complete canning plant, a plant where the meat was cooked, a laboratory etc.
It also has a museum for the artist Luis Alberto Solari who was born in the city.
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