and Paoloa mines. They can be explored, partly in trains, partly on foot, and an innovation in the interpretation of old mines is the establishment of a 2 km. cycling path through the Gianna mine. The ecomuseum [...] been an intrinsic part of the local economy for more than two centuries, but for much of that time mining has been carried out by peasant families who have also gained their livings by raising crops and

This is a mining history museum in the buildings of the Certino sulphur mine and next to the Vittoria mineshaft. The mine closed in 1964 and it reopened as a museum in 1970, one of the first industrial [...] to make gunpowder, matches, fertilisers and insecticides. There was mining at Perticara in the seventeenth century. The present mine was started in 1917 and reached a peak in 1938 with 1,600 employees

around Massa Marittima, 45 km south-west of Siena, have been extensively mined for various metallic ores and for building stone. The mining museum is located in the town’s central square by the cathedral, but [...] the area’s industrial heritage. Tours from the museum guide visits to a variety of sites, including mine workings that extend 700 m into the hillside, and the well-preserved eighteenth-century blast furnaces

The Park was born to preserve the history of metallurgy and mining activities carried on during three millenniums in the territory of the "Colline Metallifere Grossetane" (Metalliferous Hills in the province [...] territory of the "Colline metallifere" represents a different tourist route for its industrial and mining sites, for its natural resources and for its examples of medieval art and architecture.

and in the nineteenth century for the much larger coke-fired blast furnaces at Piombino. The last mines ceased working in 1970. Elba’s ‘town of iron’ was Rio Marina on the eastern coast, from which ferries [...] that can be followed on foot or by mountain bicycle through the archaeological remains of iron ore mining, which include quarries, and underground workings at Ginevro. The mineralogy and history of the workings

The mining museums at Schneeburg, near St Leonard, which lies between Merano and the Austrian border are part of the Südtiroler Bergbaumuseum (South Tirol Mining Museum) which manages five sites in the [...] language. Visitors are able to enter the Ridnaun mine, one of the oldest and one of the highest in the Alps, and view displays of numerous items of mining equipment. Varied underground tours can be arranged [...] Passeier, which can only be reached on foot from the Passeier Valley, tell the story of lead and zinc mines that were worked from the middle ages until 1967. The museum also offers a lengthy tour of underground

on the coast of Tuscany was heavily mined for pyrites in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The park incorporates many buildings once associated with mining which have been adapted to other purposes [...] purposes, and some open cast workings. The interpretation of mining is centre on an early twentieth century mine, where, after viewing an introductory audio-visual programme, visitors can enter the galleries

Since 2010 it has been located in the former engine room of the Gliwice Coal Mine, built in the years 1912–1914 according to the design of Emil and George Zillmann. There is an exhibition of art castings

of Bohemia was important for the mining of silver from the middle ages, of coal from the late 18th century, and of uranium after the Second World War. The principal mining museum in the Czech republic is [...] is centred round the Vojtech mine of 1779, which in 1875 reached a depth of 1000 m, the Anna pit of 1789 and the Sevein pit of 1813, whose winding tower of 1879 is one of the principal exhibits. Steam engines

is the only such institution in Poland with an extensive collection related to the history of mining, mining technology and culture. Rich educational offer, a typical Silesian flat, a gallery of unprofessional

old Guido colliery in Upper Silesia descend to a depth of 320 metres, making it the deepest visitor mine in Europe. A 250 ton rough coal container, conveyor belts, an Alpina tunnelling machine in full working [...] supporting pillars, a number of different transport constructions, a seismograph chamber and a simulated mining accident take visitors back into the midst of the underground world of the 20th century. One “storey”

adit is made on... boats. The guide takes tourists across from one shaft to the other while telling mining stories.

The owner of the mine was Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck. Operation of a mine began in 1872. Until 1922 the mine was called "Deutschland" (in honour of German unification). From 1922 to 1937 it was called [...] 225 m. These shafts were equipped with modern lifting machines. They are the only remains of this mine.

It was established in the building of the former engine room of the liquidated Michał Mine, whose history dates back to middle of the 19th century. At present, there are four floors in the facility which

in the former “Katowice Coal Mine”, together with other institutions established here, forms the Cultural Zone - a new cultural centre for the city. The "Katowice" coal mines operated from the third decade

in southern Poland was the centre of the country’s iron ore mining industry. A museum was established in 1968 with displays illustrating mining techniques, and collections of winding equipment, roof support [...] drilling and face-cutting machinery, lighting and ventilation systems, locomotives used underground and mining maps. Subsequently the museum was re-located to tunnels excavated in 1974-76 linking exhibition pavilions [...] experienced by past generations of iron ore miners. Artefacts have been gathered from many different mines in the region.

scene the brown coal came from primitive drift mining shafts. Later, around 1900, these were linked by a chain railway to the neighbouring open-cast mine. From 1928 onwards the coal was transported in

Fürst-Pückler-Land, glows like a silver stripe on the horizon of this wilderness, once the Meuro open-cast mine in Lusatia. The main feature of the ultra-modern building is a 270-metre long terrace, housing three [...] homes on flooded pits, cultivation on former industrial sites, and special interest tours in unique mining landscapes. Moreover, the Ilse Lake is just one of 20 former lignite pits which are currently being [...] exhibitions to help visitors gain a direct understanding of the history and development of the Lusatia mining region.

grew up around a medieval castle in the Canton of St Gallen in eastern Switzerland. The nearby Gonzen mine, a source of iron ores including haematite and magnetite has a long history but ceased operation in

Iron ore and other metallic ores were mined in the canton on Grisons in the nineteenth century, and the history of mining in the region is commemorated in the museum at Schmelzboden, 4 km south-west of [...] which is situated in the early nineteenth century headquarters building of one of the principal mining companies, the Bergwerkegesellschaft Schmelzboden-Hoffnungsau. Visitors can go on tours of underground