Museu da Indústria Baleeira

상로크 두 피쿠 해안에서 옛 고래 공장이 — 아소르스의 가장 큰 향유고래 가공 단지 — 이제 산업 박물관이다.

북쪽 해안에서 피쿠섬, 마리나들 사이에서 마달레나 그리고 상로크 두 피쿠 사이, 옛 고래 공장의 건물들이 방문객에게 열려 있다. 고래산업 박물관은 1946년부터 1984년까지 가동된 아소르스 최대 향유고래 가공 단지의 기계를 간직한다.

향유고래 공장

Whales caught off Pico were towed here to be rendered: the boilers, ovens and presses turned carcasses into oil, flour, fertilizers and other products, and the complex became the island’s great industrial workplace. When whaling ended, the plant closed — and was later preserved almost as it stood, one of the few industrial monuments of its kind in the Atlantic islands.

그 사람들에 대한 기념비

The museum presents the factory as a monument to the men and women who worked it, with the machines in place and the story told from the processing floor rather than the hunt itself — the whalers’ boats and crews of the island are kept at the museum of Lajes, at the other end of the island. Together the two museums cover the whole cycle of an industry that shaped Pico for four decades.