The Railway Museum Pablo Neruda is located on the Roundhouse of Temuco, builded between 1929 and 1941 in two phases, to serve as reparing facilities for Steam Locomotives  that run over the first half of the 20th Century in Chile.

In the 80` begin a decay over the whole Railway system that drift on the abandonment of the building. Temuco Municipality rescues the building , still damaged because of the weather conditions and the constant earthquakes, turning itinto the Railway Museum.

The Building and its locomotives are declared National Monument beginning a large period of repairing. The 2010 earthquake drift the structure nearly destructed. This year the government starts a complete restoration Project under a Heritage program. The aim was turn the building into a huge cultural centre.

The Round house is a circular building of 100 mt of diameter and has a turning table of 27 mt of diameter allowin to accomodate 34 locomotives under the structure. The challenge was to restore the old concrete structure and cover the central space for cultural and musical activities.

The structural system is a metallic dome covered with two layers of PVC that present big advantages in weight and natural lightning and also acts like a termal protector.

Heritage rescue includes a detailed damage analisys and repairing Project using carbone fiber and metal reinforcing. Also adding 8 big concrete walls that protects the structre from future events.

Original brikck walls damaged by the earthquake was replaced with metal cor-ten pannels as the big front doors designed as acces for visitors and machines. The rusted cor-ten is used  as a material  that evoques the remembering of the past and the oblivion of the Golden times of the Raiway in Chile.