Uppsala’s first waterworks operated here from 1875 to 1968. The former pump house preserves turbines, pumps and controls that reveal how groundwater was lifted into the city network; today it is a municipal technology museum and learning space beside Islandsfallet.
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Uppsala’s first waterworks opened at Pumphuset in 1875 and operated until 1968.
A turbine powered by the Fyris River’s fall drove pumps that lifted groundwater to a reservoir at Uppsala Castle.
The former waterworks was restored as a museum of municipal technology in 1992; its current interactive exhibition opened in 2017.
Get directions to Pumphuset (The Pump House). Confirm the visitor entrance and current access with the venue before travelling.
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Between the Fyris River and the paths of Stadsträdgården stands a building whose machinery once helped make clean water ordinary. Pumphuset was Uppsala’s first municipal waterworks, operating from 1875 to 1968. Today it is a museum and learning space where the surviving equipment explains how a growing city learned to move, store and safeguard its water.
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