In Forno di Zoldo there is a Museum dedicated to the manufacturing activity of the Zoldo Valley and its associated daily life.
Thanks to many sources we know that the extraction and processing of metals was very important between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries in Zoldo Valley. However, it was only in the second half of the 19th century that the forges (“fusinele” in Zoldo dialect - the open ovens for the heating of metal pieces used by blacksmiths) became economically important.
It was thus that the "Zoldo Industrial Company" was born and brought together master nail makers (“ciodaròt” in Zoldo dialect) and blacksmiths.
Unfortunately, the 1890 flood and the following 1966 definitively put an end to industrial activity, destroying, in addition to most of the forges on the banks of the Maè stream, also most of the evidence. The only one to survive as evidence of what was the great industrial activity is the "Fusinela" of Pralongo, a forge used for the production of nails currently open to visitors.
Inside the Museum is divided into several exhibition sections: we find both images and texts that tell what was once the work and the daily life linked to it, then we also find the real tools used once by master nail artists. There is also a rich exposition of production nails entirely from Zoldo.
The Iron and Nail Museum is housed in the ancient Palazzo del Capitanato, in Via San Francesco 15 in Forno di Zoldo, a building to which the people of Zoldo are particularly attached.
