Liebig's Extract of Meat Company - Industrial Revolution Museum

Industrial Revolution Museum

Thousand of people worked in the “frigorifico”, which increased and diversified the use of agricultural products. When it was shut down the opportunity for the creation of a unique museum was presented, where the original machinery and social and cultural artefacts of the technological revolution in Fray Bentos can be shown to the world. The municipal government is working on a tourist and cultural project to preserve the German and British industrial heritage. All this work is also very important for the preservation of the history of Fray Bentos city, which grew simultaneously with the factory. The museum shows, for tourism and educational purposes, the machinery used in the meat and extract of meat process, the edifices, an 1893 Merryweather water pumping machine, a complete canning plant, an invaluable and extremely interesting plant where the meat was cooked, a laboratory full of chemicals and chemistry jars, flasks and stoves and hundred of photos and glass negatives with the Liebig's Company working life… Fray Bentos´ industrial heritage of buildings and machinery is still intact. Dr Sue Millar from England said: “Thus there is the chance to save time and massive expenditure on conservation, to retain the exceptional scope and variety of the 19th and 20th century British manufacturing and engineering machinery…”

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