THE ORIGINAL BUILDING

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consists of two stories and four rooms, connected by pieces of machinery that correspond to the various stages of transformation of the grain, in a vertical typology that allowed the entire production circuit to take place in a single building. The grinding wheels system, built in Belgium by the Léon Michel-Simonis atelier, is especially interesting and was installed on the ground floor of the factory in its early years of operation. One of the rooms on the first floor houses the silos (with the grain to be ground) and another the sieves and various equipment.

The grinding plant museological project is based on the in situ preservation of all of the equipment (which is still in good repair) that may one day be put into operation once again, for pedagogical purposes.

With the Municipal Museum of Ethnography closed for renovation works, several exhibits from that museum - a large part of the ethnographic collection representative of the traditional arts and crafts - were recently installed in the Old Grinding Plant, thus allowing the public some access to that collection.