The Abbey Pumping Station is an unusual science and technology museum in Leicester, England. Its main attraction is the set of four working steam-powered beam engines leftover from its time as a sewage pumping station, but it also houses a range of other exhibits. The building was constructed in 1891 by Leicester Corporation to pump the town’s sewage to the main sewage treatment works. The impressive building, designed by Stockdale Harrison, houses four compound beam engines built by a local firm, Gimson and Company. Even if the building was empty, it would be…
