Exhibitions

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Museum areas 1 TO 21                 

Underground environment 1 to 9

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Scenes stations:

  • Sainte - Marie - aux - Mines: richness of mine working
  • The office of the judge of the mines: an unexpected meeting.
  • The big book of the silver  seams
  • The hut of the mining trades: timbermen, water drawers, conveyors…
  • Craftsmen: carpenters, coalmen, blacksmiths…
  • Tools and techniques of extraction
  • Ore,  goldsmith's trade…
  • Water machines, the foundry…
  • The trader's house   

 

UNDERGROUND tours                                      

In the silver mine:

  •  Revive a minor's day as it was in the XVIth century 
  •  8  steps on more than 300 meters in  the heart of our mountains…

 

The minors' life in the XVIth century

  • A fantastic journey through time
  • The silver fever
  • conflicts over the concessions,
  • shortages,
  • social life
  • decline of mining industry,
  • the oath of the minors,
  • religions, fire, water                                                           
  • exceptional discoveries,
  • disappointments,
  • great migrations,
  • decisions….


 

News

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