MAXAM has played a pioneering role in the explosives industry, manufacturing products and designing processes to offer to its clients since its foundation in 1872. More than a 130 years of experience and development during which MAXAM has contributed to the progress of our society through its work in cultural patronage.

Now both paths meet in our vast collection of machinery and original documents donated by MAXAM to the Mining & Industry Museum (MUMI) in El Entrego (Asturias) in order to create the "House of Explosives".

In this area of the MUMI, we can see what the beginnings of the explosives' industry were like and follow its progress within the chemical industry. This is a permanent exhibition, an exhibition that is dynamic and interactive showing the first industrial developments in organic and inorganic chemistry (the basis for the development of explosive materials), black gunpowder production, integrated processes for producing hunting cartridges and detonators, the list goes on.

The collaboration between MAXAM (through the  Foundation) and MUMI is a day-to-day process with the cataloguing and analysis of the donated documents. This, along with contributions from our companies in other parts of the world such as Bolivia, the U.S., Portugal and the United Kingdom, make it the most comprehensive Mining and Industry museum in the world.