Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum

The Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, founded in 1930, is a Leibniz Research Museum for Geo-resources committed to collecting, preserving, researching, exhibiting and communicating the material heritage of mining. We fulfil this mission above and below ground, locally in Bochum, regionally, nationally and internationally. Our credo is: Spread knowledge - experience mining.

The four tours of our permanent exhibition - hard coal, mining, mineral resources and art - lead you through the building above ground. In the exhibition mine, visitors get an impression of everyday life underground. Our headframe offers a view from a lofty height that stretches far across the Ruhr region.

Our areas of research comprise archaeometallurgy, mining history, materials science, mining archaeology, alongside our Research Laboratory and the Montanhistorisches Dokumentationszentrum (montan.dok).

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