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Cendere Art Museum also known with its old name Cendere Hamidiye Pumping Station was built in 1902 by masters and engineers brought from France to transfer the spring water collected in the reservoirs to Istanbul.

History
Cendere Hamidiye Pumping Station was built in the Ayazağa neighborhood of Şişli district (today Sarıyer) in Istanbul in order to distribute the upstream water accumulated in the reservoirs of the facility to Istanbul, and became operational on 31 August 1902. Masters and engineers were brought from France for the construction of the building, which has a width of 35 meters and a height of 25 meters. Escher-Wyss & Cie. within the station. branded boilers were brought from Switzerland. In the 1960s, these boilers were moved to the Terkos Old Water Pumping Station, and electric water pumps were installed at the Cendere Hamidiye Pumping Station. The station, which pumped 1200 m3 of water per day to 126 fountains in the city when opened, supplied water to only 4 fountains in the 1990s. According to the analyzes made by the Istanbul Water and Sewerage Administration (İSKİ), it has been determined that the water is becoming increasingly polluted in the structure, whose chimney was also destroyed over time. Because of these kind of reasons, İSKİ worked on maintaining the function of the station as well as restructuring it as a social and cultural facility, after the Gölcük earthquake in 1999.

Restoration work
At the request of İSKİ, various restoration works, such as the repairs of the water tanks in the station, the strengthening of the structure and the removal of the later additions, were approved by the decision of the Istanbul No. 1 Regional Board for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, dated October 31, 2001, numbered 13319. . Within the scope of this project; the main building has been transformed into a main structure that includes an exhibition, seminar, map and library rooms, and administrative units. Restoration works, which started in October 2006 under the name of Istanbul Water Civilizations Museum, ended in 2009. Some trees, such as the western plane tree numbered 933, in its garden are registered as monumental trees. However, the building, whose restoration was done and the museum permission was obtained, was not opened until 2022.

The building, which was restored in 2022 by the IMM Heritage teams of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, was opened as the Cendere Art Museum

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