Madrid Metro offers free guided tours of the Pacífico Engine Room and the exhibition 'Metro Headquarters' as part of 'Madrid Otra Mirada'. Reservations can be made on the suburban museums' website.
Madrid Metro participates in the 'Madrid Otra Mirada' programme of the Madrid City Council with free guided tours of two of its heritage spaces. The information, reported by larazon.es, details that one of them is the Pacífico Engine Room, which retains its original appearance following restoration in 2008.
The exhibition 'Metro Headquarters' can be visited at the company's social headquarters, on Avenida de Asturias, from this Tuesday until Friday 16 May, from 10 am to 2 pm.
The Engine Room opens from Friday 16 to Sunday 18. On Friday 16, the hours are from 4 pm to 8 pm; on Saturday 17, from 10 am to 2 pm and 4 pm to 8 pm, and on Sunday 18, from 10 am to 2 pm.
The visits are guided and free, but require prior registration through the Metro museums' website, www.museosmetromadrid.es.
The exhibition 'Metro Headquarters' explores over a century of urban transformation in Madrid through the buildings that have housed the company's headquarters since its inception. It brings together historical documentation, original plans, photographs, and visual resources about the network's expansion.
Among the exhibited pieces are two large-scale models. One reproduces the Metro House, the project by architect Antonio Palacios that was never built, and the other recreates the relationship of the company's early offices with the construction of the Gran Vía. Unpublished photographs of those works and objects from the early 20th century, such as a typewriter and a calculator, are also displayed.
The Pacífico Engine Room was built between 1922 and 1923, also designed by Antonio Palacios. It houses three diesel engines and the machinery that generated and transformed energy for the trains. During the Civil War, due to restrictions, it supplied electric power to the city of Madrid. It was closed in 1972.
Access to either of the two activities requires prior reservation on the indicated website, where available slots for each time slot are managed.
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