Rattling excavators, smoking power plant boilers, roaring turbines, rotating coal mining equipment, mining underground and above ground. The museum landscape of the Borken Mining Museum provides insights into the extraction of lignite as a raw material, explains the processes used to generate electrical energy and raises questions about the use of the post-mining landscape. As part of special guided tours, children can experience the museum and the post-mining landscape up close. Children's birthday tours above or below ground, guided tours with the "Pille-Mobil" and workshops on the topic of "Energy & Environment" combine learning, fun, games & experiences under the objective "Children into the Museum". In addition, there are museum educational workshops, play and experimentation areas where children can generate energy themselves, dredge, capture sun rays and discover their own energy flows. In the children's adventure gallery, they get to know the underground working conditions - confinement, darkness, noise, heat - with all their senses.
On your trip to the visitor mine, discover tunnels and galleries, mining equipment, chain tracks, miner's traps, underground mining methods and simulated blasting. The mining museum takes you into the crackling field of tension between industry - culture - nature.
For more info about the Lignite Mining Museum, visit the museum's homepage.