The Frank & Sylvia Heritage Discovery Center is also home to the new Iron & Steel Gallery! This spectacular three-story gallery evokes a steel mill environment. Admission to the gallery is included in your ticket to the Heritage Discovery Center.

Iron & Steel Gallery
The Johnstown Area Heritage Association has opened a new part of the Heritage Discovery Center, The Iron & Steel Gallery! It is part of the renovations to the Heritage Discovery Center in preparation for the Johnstown Children's Museum.
The current exhibit in the Iron & Steel Gallery is "Steel: Made In Pennsylvania," a photography exhibit by State Museum of Pennsylvania photographer Donald Giles. Giles photographed active and abandoned steel mills across the state.
Before the exhibit was installed at the Frank & Sylvia Pasquerilla Heritage Discovery Center, JAHA retained Giles to photograph remaining steel operations in Johnstown, including Gautier Steel (right and above left) and Johnstown Wire Technologies (below left). Support from the Community Foundation for the Alleghenies made this possible.
"In the process of viewing this stunning exhibit, fortunate Pennsylvanians are likely to look at their steel heritage from new vantage points, and to learn much about themselves and the state they - and Big Steel - call home," wrote Jeffrey A. Davis, associate editor of Pennsylvania History, in an exhibit review.
The gallery includes a theater (seen at right) on the first level that will show "The Mystery of Steel," a film presentation that is still under production. "The Mystery of Steel" will document Johnstown's role in the early steel industry, and will include high-definition footage JAHA commissioned Charles Guggenheim to shoot in the local Bethlehem Steel mills before they shut down in the early 1990s. JAHA expects to premiere the film in fall 2008.
The gallery is part of recent renovations to the Heritage Discovery Center that also include the space for the Johnstown Children's Museum, the Galliker's Cafe, an education center, an ethnic social club, and other enhancements. JAHA has raised $7.2 million in its current capital campaign, "Preserving Our Heritage: Revitalizing Our Community," which has a goal of $8.05 million. In addition to the completion of the Heritage Discovery Center, the campaign will fund renovations to the Johnstown Flood Museum, enhancements at Festival Park, and endowments for the Johnstown Children's Museum and the AmeriServ Johnstown FolkFest.
To support JAHA's capital campaign and the further development of this gallery, visit the online donations page, which is part of JAHA's online store, or download a pledge card. More about the campaign can be found in the Capital Campaign section of this site.