Museum of the Siderurgy

The Museum of the Siderurgy of Asturias in Spanish Museo de l. A. Siderurgia de Asturias, is a museum placed in La Felguera, inside the Principality of Asturias, northern Spain. Also called the MUSI. The museum is located inner of a former tower of refrigeration of the Felguera Factory. At the mid 19^th century, Pedro Duro installed right here one of the maximum modern metallurgical factories of Spain, that would manipulate to be one of the maximum important of the U. S. A. It became located in the heart of the Mining Asturian Zone, near coal and to the Nalon River. The manufacturing facility disappeared in 1984 however there stay some homes, internal the Technological Center Valnalon.

The museum was inaugurated in 2006 into the historical chimeny of refrigeration, and it consists of 3 floors. At the first underground there is a area committed to Bayer, that produces in the area the acetylsalicylic acid. At the second floor there are an audio-visible room, a model of the former factory and the coffee, and at the final ground it tells the history of the siderurgy in Asturias with Ensidesa foundation in Aviles and Uninsa in Gijon in 1950, these days Arcelor-Mittal specially the siderurgy of La Felguera. The museum will grow with the aid of homes from the 19^th and 20^th centuries that are at the back of the refrigerantion tower. The museum is completed by urban routes via La Felguera to expose the economic background.