Old Mine in Wałbrzych – the modern science centre on the European Route of Industrial Heritage.
Old Mine in Wałbrzych – Science and Art Centre. The last wagon of coal left the former Julia mine in 1996.
OPENING HOURS
- All year
Saturday – Sunday 10 am. – 6 pm. (the last admission at 4 pm.)
Monday – Friday 10 am. – 5 pm. (the last admission at 3 pm.) - visiting time with a guide about 100 minutes
- admission at every full hour
OLD MINE IN WAŁBRZYCH – ATTRACTIONS
- the unique complex of mainly mining buildings
- objects you can visit: chain bath house, lamproom, forge, engine room, underground adit, observation tower
- warm clothes are necessary in the undergrounds (9 degrees C, 97% humidity), where you spend about 20 minutes
- Old Mine is part of the European Route of Industrial Heritage
- there are art galleries within the Old Mine complex presenting: ceramics, painting, sculpture (admission is free)
- there is Sztygarówka Cafe at the Old Mine premises, open from 10am. to 6pm.
TICKET PRICELIST
- normal ticket 28 PLN / 6,5 €
- reduced ticket 20 PLN / 5 €
- family ticket 69 PLN / 17 €
- entrance to the contemporary art gallery is free
- car park is free
GALLERY
The entrance building used to serve as a mining school. Currently, there is a cafe, ticket office and library.
In the chain bath house, working clothes of miners hanged below the ceiling.
Behind those windows, you can see the coal screening plant not yet reconstructed.
The floor made of beech wood beams hammered into sand at the mine’s forge.
Something for teenagers – interactive tablets illustrating how mining machines work.
At Sztygarówka apart from the ticket office, bar and library, there is an interesting exhibition “Hannibal Smoke: Old Mine yesterday”.
A remainder of the methane explosion. A shovel driven into a stull.
We are about to enter the underground.
The hall of the mine forge
Every miner had a dog tag assigned for the whole life, its lack on the board meant that he was underground.
At the times of Julia mine’s height.
The gallery of miners’ uniforms
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