The museum building is a reconstructed and rebuilt blast furnace with a height of 70 m. It is located in the Fundidora Park, which is a complex of a former steel plant built at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and actively functioning several decades ago. But now this park is a popular recreational zone with citizens and tourists, which has the status of a National Monument of Industrial History. Even before the opening of the museum, the number of visitors to this ensemble reached 2 million people a year, but now it should increase even more.
Monterrey is the largest metallurgy center in Mexico and all of Central America; its development as a city is closely related to its factories and factories, hence the interest of its inhabitants in the preservation and popularization of the industrial heritage of this industrial center.
The Museum of Steel, or “Orno 3” (“Domna 3”), includes exhibition halls with various interactive exhibits, workshops, auditoriums, an auditorium and an archive: all located on a usable area of 10,000 square meters. m. The exposition is devoted to the methods of steel smelting, its physical properties and uses.
Nicholas Grimshaw also demonstrated innovative methods of using steel in his project itself. The roof of the Gallery of Steel, composed of many elements, resembles not a metal structure, but an origami work; this became possible due to the widespread use of computer technology in steel rolling production and related areas. The steel spiral staircase in the center of the museum complex is also distinguished by a special accuracy of calculations; its supporting structure and steps are unusually thin and light: such a structure could not have been created ten years ago.
