Museum of Metallurgy and Machine Industry
Museum of Metallurgy and Machine Industry
The historic ironworks in Chlewiska is a unique industrial complex on a European scale, which allows you to move in time to the metallurgy based on charcoal. Located about 40 km from Radom and 130 km from Warsaw, in the area of 2 hectares, Huta is today the field branch of the National Museum of Technology and is one of the best preserved facilities of this type in Europe. The heart of the complex is a great furnace from the late nineteenth century with a preserved technological system of iron production: blowers, heaters and a water elevator. There are also revitalized 19th-century "Prażaki" furnaces, historic buildings with classicist elements and impressive exhibitions. Ferrari),
A collection of motorcycles and mopeds , including SHL, Junak, NSU, Vespa,
Metal and wood machining machines , including reinforcing tools,
A collection of sewing machinery , with the possibility of seeing the former shoemaker's workshop. Ursus collection. The facility can be visited from Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 16:00.
Huta is of great historical and cultural importance-it was one of the first plants producing steel for reborn Poland after 1918 and the only Polish-Bolshevik war operating during the war. Her history includes names such as count Ludwik Broel-Plater or investors from France (Societe Francaise Metallurgique de Chlewiska).
Historical events, zlotys of historic vehicles, educational workshops, outdoor workshops and family picnics take place regularly in the complex. The event that particularly attracts tourists and enthusiasts is the Festival of Iron and Steel , organized cyclically with great momentum.
