Last Saturday, on an improvised basis, after leaving work, despite being tired, I decided to go to this place, which I thought was restored, because they have been doing certain restorations of works throughout the city, and I think that this place is very emblematic and important for the city, but when I arrived at the place I found the Caroní Ecomuseum still abandoned, a place that years ago was a very important point for any person and tourist, due to its infrastructure and everything contained in the museum.
As I remember from my childhood, we used to go to this museum after having gone to the La Llovizna park, which is very close, it was a place where you could access and find works of indigenous art or by local artists, as well as appreciate from the inside the large turbines that generate electricity, since next to it is the Macagua dam, one of the most important in the country with respect to the electricity grid, and the purpose of the creation of this museum was for citizens to know what the electrical processing system was like.
However, for some years now this site has suffered from abandonment, although I could see that the fountains are active, but in reality there are many things that can be learned about this place, as well as everything that it can generate in tourism and knowledge, which could be used in these times when the country is coming out of a bad economic streak in all areas of the nation. In addition, the Ecomuseum has the unique infrastructure in the country where you can go a little further inside the dam.
On the other hand, getting to the Ecomuseum as the main option would be by car, however, with respect to public transportation it is more limited, that day I had to stay on a nearby avenue and take a long walk in the intense sun, but appreciating a little the nature of the place, but if you do not have a car it is a little more difficult to access, so for many people perhaps they do not know this place for the same reasons that I have said.
Although I didn't find this place as I thought I would, I took the opportunity to photograph it as I was seeing it, where by nature there is still the same waterfall that never stops falling water, the water fountains around the area of the square in front of the entrance, and there is even the same train car that serves as a sculpture of this place, but I couldn't see the well where one threw thousands of coins with the intention of making a wish, it was something I always used to do when I was a child. There are some aspects of this place that endure over time but its museum structure as such is in total abandonment. Therefore people can still visit it but without being able to access the museum, simply appreciate the exterior that also has its appeal.
All photographs are my own.
