Ground Floor Entrance Hall

The Museum receives its visitors in the Ground Floor Entrance Hall, where there is the possibility of buying publications and souvenirs shown in a showcase on the wall as well as to validate the entrance tickets with the old checking clock of the factory. To the left of the entrance hall there is – the opening of the permanent exhibition - an 18th-century forged-iron gate, documents related to the bringing into being of the building as well as the original design of the building from 1777. In the staircase there are mostly related metallurgical art works that lead the visitor to the exhibition halls on the upper two floors.

1st Floor

In the entrance hall of the 1st floor, documents related to the factory-founder Henrik Fazola’s personals’ and of the factory can be seen as well as the development of the production of the solid fuel indispensable for iron casting.

The room presents the history of steel manufacturing Marquette’s, dioramas and working models which illustrate the individual processes of steel manufacturing. These are completed by documents, drawings and photographs.

2nd Floor

Entering the room of forging processes, the history of forging is illustrated by dioramas from the forging of precious metals in ancient Egypt through weapon manufacturing in the Middle Ages to the technology of paddle-wheel driven hammer mills characteristics of the 18th and 19th centuries.

In the room of rolling processes the visitor may get an idea – with the help of working models and Marquette’s – of the development of the tools and technology of rolling, and of the history of wire and screw manufacturing. A collection of rails presents the different rails of domestic and foreign-make used by the Hungarian Railways from mid-19th century on, and the products of the different rolling mills can be seen on posters.

“Massa” Museum

First room

On entering the Museum, we can see, in the first room the blast furnace from Ó-massa built in 1772 with its profile drawings and Marquette. We show the tectonic drawing of the smelting unit built in Újmassa (that can be partly seen today next to the Museum), and the drawing of the carpentry construction of the attached casting house. From the object relics of Újmassa we can see here pieces of crude iron and slag as well as objects of everyday use cast directly into sand or clay moulds.

Second room

In this room we can see the early relics of the Massa cast iron production (e.g. big mortars, a kettle manufactured for the kitchen provided to the soldiers working on building the lake-dam, an iron oven cast into a clay mould.)

Third room

On the walls and in the showcases ornamental pieces and objects for everyday use prepared on the spot can be seen.

Fourth room

This room presents the history of forging by hand and with a paddle wheel, respectively, and the different hand tools as well as the technology of scythe and hoe manufacturing are shown.

Fazola Blast Furnace

The history of the industrial monument; the Nr. 1 of Hungary, the timber-fuelled blast furnace of Újmassa, in general known as “ancient furnace’ goes back to the 18th century. Locksmith master Henrik Fazola – whose worldwide known artistic products in rococo style can be seen in Eger – built, with the consent of Queen Maria Theresa, an iron mill on the territory of Miskolc-Ómassa, based on the mines discovered by him and on the huge forests in the region.

His son Frigyes, who achieved outstanding results in laying the foundations of domestic steel manufacturing, first built a dam along the brook Garadna between 1810 and 1813, through which the Hámor Lake came into being, then opened up in Újmassa a more modern blast furnace and iron works. The blast furnace, re-shaped in 1831, finished its production in 1872, after the iron factory built in 1870 between Miskolc and Diósgyőr had been put into operation.

The blast furnace that fell into ruins during the following decades was reconstructed, and partly re-built in its original shape in mid-20th century, with the efficient help of the metallurgical plants of Diósgyőr. The construction became known in Hungary and in the surrounding countries as the oldest industrial monument of the country.

Hammer works

In the hammer works built in 1979 after 18th-century; drawings of a paddle-wheel driven tilt hammer and bellows as well as an annealing furnace recall the atmosphere of a workshop serving as the site of the plastic deformation process of the times.

Open-air exhibition

The open-air exhibition displays machinery and tools used in iron metallurgy in the 19th-20th centuries as well as some pieces of the last equipment used in the Lyukóbánya mine which was finally closed down in 2004