- Opening hours from Friday to Sunday and free admission are maintained.
- Three temporary exhibitions, new virtual reality experience and a complete cultural program
La Térmica Cultural reopens its doors this Friday, March 22 with a new look, three new temporary exhibitions, a new virtual reality experience and a complete cultural program with activities for all audiences. After the refurbishment of the central space and exhibition areas, the cultural facility in Ponferrada is now ready to offer an interesting program for the visiting public.
Admission will continue to be free free and the opening hours Friday to Sunday; Fridays from 16:00 to 22:00 hours, Saturdays from 10:00 to 22:00 hours and Sundays from 10:00 to 16:00 hours. During Easter Week, La Térmica Cultural extends its opening hours so that it can be visited on Wednesday 27 from 16:00 to 22:00 hours, from Thursday 28 to Saturday 30 (both included) from 10:00 to 22:00 hours and Sunday 31 from 10:00 to 16:00 hours. The Lignito hall premieres a new virtual reality experience with 'Turn on the thermal' to, from now on, get to know the As Pontes de García Rodríguez power plant in A Coruña. Thus, through virtual reality glasses, visitors will be able to enter, see and operate this iconic facility, living an authentic immersive experience that allows them to enter into the operation of a thermal power plant.
Tickets to visit the installation, enjoy the virtual reality experience and attend the performances of the cultural program are already available here.
Art, scientific dissemination and just transition in new temporary exhibitions
In addition to the permanent exhibition Green Fire in the Calderas hall, where a rich collection of arborescent ferns takes center stage, La Térmica Cultural hosts three new temporary exhibitions on themes ranging from art to scientific dissemination and the territories of just transition.
Thus, the following exhibition will be on display at the Hulla hall In Search of LifeThe exhibition aims to show and highlight the activity of naturalists, explorers and adventurers who have contributed to the dissemination of environmental knowledge and to the awareness of society about the different facets of conservation. The life and professional experience of the naturalist Luis Miguel Domínguez, together with all the memories accumulated in his extensive professional experience, will serve as a guide in this exhibition. This exhibition is carried out in collaboration with the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), which is the depositary of the collection of objects that was previously in the exhibition space of La Corrala in Madrid.
The foyer will house the exhibition The industrial town of As Veigas in As Pontes de García Rodríguez (1945-1972)a visual tour by photographer Manolo Vila through the memory of an industrial community. Through images, the exhibition brings the visitor closer to the 40s and 50s, its architecture, industrial paternalism, work spaces, but also to family and social spaces, showing the day to day life of an essential period in the history of As Pontes.
And in the Condensadores room, visitors will be able to get to know the most personal and intimate Arroyo in the exhibition Eduardo Arroyo and Robles de Laciana. Round tripan exhibition dedicated to the figure of the genuine artist of international prestige. It is an extensive exhibition consisting of 167 pieces, 140 belonging to the private collection of his family and 27 more from the funds of the Instituto Leonés de Cultura. Among the pieces, some of them unpublished, are sketches and drawings, plastic exercises of mixed technique, collages, paintings, prints edited with the most diverse techniques he used, highlighting the lithography, books, sculptures in bronze, stone, ceramics or several pieces that served for scenographic decorations. It is a sequential story built around four narrative scenes, along which his connection with Robles de Laciana is especially relevant, which synthetically articulate the life and work of Eduardo Arroyo in a fluid and direct dialogue with the viewer.
Renewed programming
La Térmica Cultural resumes guided tours of the facility, one of the most demanded activities over the past year and are aimed at the general public. Thus, on Saturday 23 and Thursday 28 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. the guided visit will take place. Compostilla I: Endesa is born where visitors will learn about the history of the thermal power plant and discover the spaces that housed its boilers and turbines. And on Sunday 24 from 11:00 to 12:00 hours and on Thursday 28 from 18:00 to 19:00 hours the visit will take place Among fernsa guided approach where attendees will discover in depth the exhibition Fuego Verde, learn about the origin and characteristics of tree ferns and the species that gave rise to the coal deposits in the regions of Bierzo and Laciana during the Carboniferous. To attend these free visits, prior registration is required by contacting guias@ciuden.es or telephone 987 400 800.
In addition, the Dinamiz-ARTj program returns to La Térmica Cultural with four free performances in April for which tickets can be booked here or at the reception of La Térmica Cultural. The group Galifunk Brass will open this cycle on Friday 5, will continue on Sunday 7 with Píscore, on Saturday 20 with the quartet Entrebescant Ensemble and will close the month on Sunday 28 Ibera Auri.
