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Quito’s factory, water site and observatory
The former La Industrial textile factory, a water-supply site and an observatory museum connect work, utilities and scientific measurement within Quito.
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A place worth remembering
A factory turned science museum
The Interactive Science Museum occupies the former La Industrial textile factory in Chimbacalle. A 2019 news item from Quito’s municipality says textile production ran there from 1935 to 1999.[1]
Water infrastructure remembered
Instruments in La Alameda
The Quito Astronomical Observatory’s 2022–2023 educational guide places its museum in La Alameda park. The guide says the observatory was founded in 1873 and opened its museum in 2011, and it describes instrument collections for astronomy, meteorology, cartography and seismology.[4]
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