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Industrial history museum gets new home in steel plant

Industrial history museum gets new home in steel plant


January 19, 2011
National Museum of Industrial History
National Museum of Industrial History

The National Museum of Industrial History recently renovated the exterior of a 1913 steel plant in Bethlehem, Pa., to house its new 40,000-sf exhibition space. The museum chose VOA Associates, which is headquartered in Chicago, to complete the design for the exhibit’s interior. The exhibit, which has views of five historic blast furnaces, will feature artifacts from the Smithsonian Institution to illustrate early industrial America.

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