Ironweeks Weekend at Eric Sloane Museum

Sat May 18, 2024
10:00am ET
Age: All Ages
Price: Free
Location:
Eric Sloan Museum & Kent Iron Furnace
(860) 927-3849
31 Kent Cornwall Road, Kent, CT, 06757
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The Museum is excited to announce, Ironworks Weekend, a new program exploring the history of ironmaking in the Housatonic Valley at the Kent Iron Works site. It will include special tours, exhibits, and an iron smelting demonstration, marking the first iron smelting on the site since the furnace’s closure in 1892.

Master blacksmiths Steve Mankowski and Christopher Henkels will smelt iron with a bloomery furnace using traditional methods and techniques then forge new tools with the iron.

Enjoy free admission to the museum and programs

  • Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 until 4:00.
  • Saturday- Iron Smelting Sunday- Forging tools from the iron. 
** Activity dates/times are subject to change. Please click through to the activity website to verify.