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The Edessa Water Museum is located at;
Green Dragon Lane, Brentford, London TW8 0EN
T: 020 8568 4757
Admission - BOOK ONLINE & SAVE 10%
The headline price includes a small 10% donation to the Kew
Bridge Engines Trust to support us in maintaining the collection of
historically significant engines and keeping them in steam. Day
tickets can be purchased online for a 10% DISCOUNT and can be
upgraded to annual passes at the Museum on the day of the visit.
exhibition area is a traditional watermills park, in a
place nearby Edessa Waterfalls area promoting the water values using
from hi-tech presentations to eco-guides and local products degustation.
Visitors can, among other things, try their hand at
assembling a plumbing system, operate pumps and learn about the workings
of the dam and water as energy of life element workshops which operates
the water mills and water-driven factories.
Here you can see everything to do with the use of
water energy in the city of Edessa, from its founding to the present day,
including industrial monuments, the ancient paths, the byzantine
churches and the water channel systems.
The Open Air Water Museum of Edessa and opened
partially from Sep 1999 during European Days of Water, and the
exhibition it self was designed by the help of DRM, AuTH and famous
greek architects.
In the main area of Mills today there are in operation
the Aquarium-Reptile House, the Mill of Flavours, the Mill of Water &
the 5 human sences, the Environmental Center, the Open Air Summer Cinema,
the Ceramics & the Paintings workshops.
The museum has also an observation platform with
excellent views over the Edessa valley, and a pretty garden, both of
which have already become extremely popular with the city's inhabitants
and visitors. The buildings also houses temporary exhibitions,
conferences and seminars |
