Why build a steel museum? The age of steel is gone. Demolish the old mills!
The Pittsburgh Museum of Steel is a project dedicated, not only to celebrate the invention of steel and its technological achievements, but also to acknowledge and remediate the pollution that steel production caused. Air, land, and water have been severely damaged by the steel industry as well as countless employees of the mills. The museum will strive to remediate the land and water, and educate the public on all aspects of the steel industry.
Rather than demolish the Carrie Furnace, a historic monument of the industrial age, the furnace will be studied, restored, and reused. It will remain as tribute to the hardworking women and men of Pittsburgh, PA.
