California Foundry History Museum

The California Foundry History Museum of Sacramento, is housed at Technikon, LLC facility. Technikon is a full-functioning modern foundry specializing in metal casting research. The museum includes a wide variety of beautifully displayed photos and written history dating back 150 years to the Gold Rush, the beginning of our state’s rich foundry history. The museum offers a wealth of visual displays and information about the casting process, general California foundry history, and casting uses in transportation, defense, water control, and recycling.

The California Foundry History Museum is ran by the California Foundry History Institute (CFHI), located in El Dorado Hills, a non-profit educational organization incorporated in the state of California and dedicated to the collection and preservation of historical records pertaining to the history of the foundry industry in California. An important part of this work is the recording, preservation, indexing, and transcription of oral interviews with the men and women who have played a significant role in the development of the foundry industry in California.