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you’ll be going 140 metres underground. And below the earth it is cold, damp and dark. The National Coalmining Museum for England, near Overton in West Yorkshire, is located in one of the oldest collieries [...] till 1970 are still working. In addition the museum has an audio-visual exhibition which takes visitors on a journey through more than two centuries of coal-mining history. The four old pit ponies, now enjoying [...] pit railway and travel to the next colliery just around the corner. This also forms a part of the museum complex.

called Newtongrange in Scotland? It’s simple? For Lady Victoria is the name of the old colliery in Newtongrange and when the locals talk about black diamonds they mean coal which was once mined in huge [...] before being taken off to the markets. Nowadays “Lady Vic” is the headquarters of the Scottish Mining Museum, where visitors can get an insight into the highs and lows of an industry which was once the backbone [...] Scottish economy. The 500 metre main shaft may have been filled in. But that’s no matter. For the museum has its own gallery with a genuine underground atmosphere. The driving wheel on the pit head gear

the 19th century the slate tiles on almost every roof in Britain had been mined and cut by Welshmen.The National Slate Museum in Llanberis gives visitors a vivid impression of their masterly skills. It

informs visitors about the region’s geology, mining techniques and the industrial history of mining in the Saar. Here you can take a ride into a 200 meter long mining gallery in a hands-on experience with original [...] high up in the present. The entrance to the Hindenburg tower (built in 1934) in the Saarland Mining Museum in Bexbach is situated at a height of 40 metres. From here you can get an outstanding view of [...] member of the Frankfurt am Main National Assembly. In 1879 he took over the pit in the Bexbach suburb of Frankenholz and in the process turned it into the largest coal mine in the southwest. At its height

Silver Works. The mining museum is situated in a preserved smeltery from 1844, displaying a unique collection of native silver as well as artefacts and models illustrating history of the mining enterprises. [...] Norwegian Mining Academy, founded in 1757, is part of the national heritage site of Kongsberg Silver Works. At Saggrenda, 8 km W, visitors can explore underground workings in the King’s Mine, accessed

replaced by a modern plant, serves as a museum, and as a training facility for electrical engineers. The museum is a popular attraction in the Laponia (Lappland) National Park, which is a UNESCO World Heritage [...] at Porjus, 100 km S of Kiruna, was one of the factors which made it possible for people to live and mine iron ore north of the Arctic Circle. The power station, designed by Erik Josephson, was completed

Helmets on, enter the mine train and off it goes into the mountain, 580 metres deep. An extensive network of tracks covering main and secondary galleries indicates how busy the iron ore mines of Rumelange must [...] Monumental machines illustrate post World War II mining operations which were far less dangerous and hard than around 1870 when Luxembourg started its mining industries. In those days 70 to 90 miners worked [...] safety precautions and social benefits in the wet and dark “mousetrap” as one of the pits on the mining museum’s site was infamously called. Former employees vividly explain to the visitors how they extracted

the last mine in the region ceased working in 1989. The museum opened in 1982, and includes winding room and crushing plant. Displays illustrate the development of geological prospecting and mining in Finland [...] 1910 by the German geologist Otto Trustedt. Mining began in 1913 when a smelter came into operation. The smelter ceased working in 1929 but the scale of mining greatly increased in that period, with concentrate [...] exported along a 12 km railway to a lakeside harbour completed in 1918, and from 1928 by way of the national railway system. For several decades this was one of the principal sources of copper ores in Europe

miners of 60 nationalities who have worked in the mines along its route. It incorporates several conserved industrial heritage sites including the Route du Feu at Blegny, the Bois du Cazier Mine at Marcinelle [...] Marcinelle, le Grand Hornu, the mining museum at Bar-de-Luc and the PASS science centre at Frameries. La Chaine des Terrils has links with the similar association in Nord-Pas-de-Calais which is based at Loo [...] The trail incorporates the tracks that miners once followed from their homes to the pitheads of the mines where they worked, and the lines of mineral railways that once carried away coal. The pits have developed

Sweden’s national museum of science and technology was founded in 1924 under the patronage of several of the country’s leading learned societies and industrial organisations. It is located in a building [...] of an electric arc furnace. Other galleries have displays on electric power, forest industries and mining, and the development from its infancy of information technology. An extensive model layout shows

found a preserved row of fully furnished Merthyr workers cottages from the 1800s. Shops from another mining valley village and the perfectly preserved Oakdale Miners Institute dating from 1906 provide architypical

gained distinction as a mining engineer, by designing a water-powered hoist for raising barrels of ore from the copper mine at Falun in 1693 that attracted the attention of mining engineers from all over [...] and machines. In 1698 he was appointed Director of Mining Engineering in Sweden, with particular responsibility for the Falun mine, and visited mines in the Harz region in 1707. From 1700 he established [...] Canal, but the project never materialised. Examples of his tools and models are displayed in the National Museum of Science & Technology, Stockholm, and at Falun.

the mining interests of Schomberg Kerr, 9th Marquess of Lothian (1833-1900) to form the Lothian Coal Co, which in the same year began to sink the Lady Victoria pit, now the Scottish Mining Museum. The [...] family moved to Glasgow where he was able to study mining engineering, and for a time he supervised the mining operations of Dunlop & Wilson, an iron-making company in South Ayrshire. In 1856 he took a lease [...] working life. The company controlled 5700 ha of mine workings and accommodated its miners in 700 cottages, many of which were in the village of Newtongrange alongside the Lady Victoria pit. Hood was also

Concordia Mine, Oberhausen. Three years later he joined a German company, Schachtbau Thyssen, that specialised in sinking shafts for coal mines, and which had a series of contracts with the National Coal Board [...] ponies were still intact. He retired in 1988. An account of his life is retained at the Big Pit mining museum. [...] like Schactbau Thyssen were no longer needed, and Arno Wolff transferred to employment with the National Coal Board from 1981.He worked at Cynheidre pit where he discovered a hundred-year old working where

(1860), workshop (1922) and warehouse (1930), used as the Mining Museum from 1980. The Mining museum is unique technical museum of coal mining in Serbia, but it also presents assets and social history [...] part of the museum is still working steam-machinery and elevator, dated from 1874.In June 2009 the project of rehabilitation of the site and transformation of the Museum to modern national industrial heritage [...] interpretation of social history and industrial culture. Coal mine complex is interesting mixture of living history and still existing contemporary mining. Historically the most important part of the complex consists

through the history of Luxembourg’s steel industry. In Rumelange, at the National Mining Museum , you will learn more about the mining of iron ore and walking along different trails will allow you a better [...] Railway Park Fond-de-Gras , you can take rides on the historic steam train "Train 1900" and on the mining train taking you through the underground galleries. The trains ride on Sundays between Mai and September

planes crossing the valley of the River Team. The system passed into the control of the National Coal Board when mines were nationalised in 1947, and was scarcely altered until the late 1960s. Coal ceased [...] designed by George Stephenson (1781-1848) to carry coal from Monk Moor pit at Black Fell and other coal mines in north-west Durham across the Team Valley to staithes at Jarrow on the south bank of the River Tyne [...] activities in the following year. The line was designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument, and was granted museum status in 2002. The railway has suffered from arson attacks and the withdrawal of local authority

employed by George von Giesches Erben, a Silesian mining corporation that originated in the early eighteenth century at the Nickisch (now Poniatowski) mine, one of 14 in the Giesche (now Wieczorek) colliery [...] their work. Nikiszowiec was designated a national historical monument in 2011. Guidance to the community can be provided by the City Information Centre. A small museum has been established in a former public [...] Katowice is a city of more than 300,000 inhabitants, at the centre of one of Europe’s principal coal-mining and iron-making regions. In the nineteenth century it was part of the Prussian province of Silesia

important events in the history of technology. The museum has a laboratory where visitors can carry out scientific experiments.The museum manages five branch museums in other parts of Poland. [...] The National Museum of Technology in Warsaw dates in its present form from 1955, although it has links with earlier collections. It is located in the Palace of Culture, the Soviet-style building that dominates [...] Visitors can make their way through a representation of the underground workings of a Polish coal mine. One of the most prized exhibits is an Enigma coding machine that was used by Polish mathematicians