The municipal governement, is planning a touristic and cultural project to presserve the german and britanic industrial heritage. But all this work is very important too for the preservation of the Fray Bentos city´history, whose growth was simultaneous with factory life.

 The Museum will show with touristic and education purpouses, the machinery used in the meat and extract of meat process, the edifices, an  1893 `Merryweather water pumping, a complete canning plant, an invaluable and extremely interesting plant were the meat was cooked, a laboratory full of chemicals and chemestry jars, flasks and stoves and hundred of photos and glass negatives with the Liebig`s Company working life...

 Fray Bentos`s 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 19^th and 20^th century british manufacturing and engeneering machinery...”

 The “Frigorífico ANGLO “ is a tourist attraction and a cultural experience which will be able to satisfy the continuous demand for historical information through the visits of students as part of their studies.

 The inheritance can be successfully used to demonstrate the interactivity between the economic history of the country, the industrial revolution, and the production and manufacturing of rich natual resources.

 “Uruguay has the opportunity to develop their industrial history retaining the gamut of industrial machinery engineered from the last century to the present.

Uruguay`s industrial and commercial heritage, with roots in 19^th century and early 20^th century British manufacturing, provide the combination of informal education at an attactive location with the type of education offered by high schools and universities.

Fray Bentos has, in this sense, the privilge of an extraordinary heritage.”

 

Dra. Sue Millar

Ironbrigde Institute

United Kingdom