Metals

The exhibition illustrates the metal extraction and processing techniques through the machinery used and the products created. You can discover the working processes for the melting and deformation of plastic with the first Italian electric oven, presses and dies, rods and plates. Special attention is given to the working of iron: in the reconstruction of a Falck factory (1860) you can observe the rolling and drawing. A hydraulic hammer (1740), originally from the Galperti forge, shows the forging. The metallurgy of the non-iron metals (among which we find copper and aluminium) is shown from the original minerals up to the industrial products.