Metropolitan Waterworks Museum
| Director | Eric Peterson |
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| Chairperson | Katherine Burton Jones |
| Owner | Metropolitan Waterworks Museum Inc. |
| Public transit access | Reservoir or Chestnut Hill |
| Website | waterworksmuseum |
Interactive map highlighting the location of the museum | |
| Location | 2450 Beacon Street, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, US |
| Coordinates | 42°19′54.088″N 71°9′20.329″W / 42.33169111°N 71.15564694°W |
| Architect | Arthur H. Vinal |
| Architectural style(s) | Richardsonian Romanesque |
| Official name | Chestnut Hill High Service Pumping Station |
| Designated | January 18, 1990 |
| Part of | Chestnut Hill Reservoir Historic District |
| Reference no. | 89002271 |
The Waterworks Museum is a museum in the Chestnut Hill Waterworks building, originally a high-service pumping station of the Boston Metropolitan Waterworks. It contains well-preserved mechanical engineering devices in a Richardsonian Romanesque building.
During its busiest years, the waterworks pumped as much as a hundred million gallons of water each day.: 125 The station was decommissioned in the 1970s, and later some of its buildings were turned into condominiums. After a period of disuse, the pumping station was restored, and in 2007 the Waterworks Preservation Trust was set up to oversee its conversion into a museum. In March 2011, the building reopened to the public as the Waterworks Museum.