Georgetown Steam Plant

How is the history of machinery preserved? How can we use industrial spaces to build community? How do “obsolete” technologies offer opportunities for artists? Find out at

Georgetown Steam Plant Open Houses
Second Saturday of every month (October 11, November 12, December 10)
Free tours departing 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 12:30 PM
Free parking on site

Learn about the history of the museum. Visitors will also have the chance to meet the Steam Plant’s artist-in-residence. This fall it is Xochitl Clare, a marine biologist, dancer, and artist, who is using her residency to create collaborative poetry with visitors on a vintage typewriter.

For 25 points extra credit, take a selfie at the Steam Plant and write a 200-word report that reflects on your experience in light of ideas from our class.