Mongiana (VV)

MuFAR - Bourbon Royal Ironworks Museum

The Museum of the Royal Bourbon Ironworks or MUFAR is a museum of industrial archaeology in the municipality of Mongiana (Vibo Valentia), Calabria, opened on 23 October 2013 and focuses on the history of the Mongiana iron and steel pole created during the Bourbon reign between the 18th and 19th centuries.

In 1872, iron and steel activities ceased definitively due to a lack of orders, and the industrial buildings were gradually abandoned. Restored at the end of the 19th century, they became housing and warehouses. Among them, the former Mongiana Arms Factory, rediscovered in the late 1970s in a state of complete decay, was the subject of a thorough process of restoration. In October 2013, the architectural restoration was completed with the setting up of the Bourbon Royal Ironworks Museum.