MUSÉE DES MINES D'ARGENT

For 1000 years and perhaps more, they have come by the thousands from all over Europe to La Croix aux Mines. Like them, walk in the footsteps of this formidable and harsh human adventure. In this landscape, today green and bucolic, one does not suspect, without a minimum of curiosity, the activities of a not so distant past..
Discover the splendid work of Heinrich GROSS, an astonishing fresco illustrating with a rare realism, all the human activities, around and in the mine in the year 1529. These pictures made in La Croix aux Mines have been shown all over the world
Visit the historical gallery of the mine: several examples of cutting techniques according to the periods, an annual temperature of 12° in the gallery (bring adapted clothes), 125 meters of gallery to be traversed.
Discover also an impressive collection of tools and objects, witnesses of 10 centuries of mining activity, a testimonial film of a former miner of the village, ...
A fascinating visit to be experienced with the family!

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