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- Jaama 100, Kohtla-Nõmme 30503 Ida-Virumaa Estonia
- +3723324017
- info@kaevandusmuuseum.ee
- http://kaevandusmuuseum.ee/eng/
- Working hours*:
June - August
Thursday - Saturday 11:00-18:00
Last group enters the underground mine by latest 17:00
Sunday
11:00-15:00
Monday - closed
September - May
Thursday - Saturday
11:00 - 17:00
Sunday -Monday available only for pre-booked groups - * - opening and closing times as well as entrance prices, are subject to alterations without notice. Visitors are advised to check before visiting.
- Visitors to the underground mine must book in advance
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Guided tour
The underground museum is the most attractive and exciting sight at the Estonian Mining Museum, consisting of former mining gears with a total length of 1 kilometre.
During the guided tour, visitors become miners as they put on helmets and miner lights and descend to mining gears up to 8 m under the ground. They are offered a unique chance to walk in the footsteps of real miners, experience their daily work in moist and dusky conditions, which helps to understand the background and the development of oil shale mining and the functioning of the industry.
During the underground tour, guests visit miners’ various underground work places as well as the explosives storage, travel on a real underground train for miners, and get the view of various underground technical equipment and mining technology.
In addition to that, visitors can order a delicious miner’s lunch and enjoy it in the underground miner canteen.
Besides the exciting adventure under the ground, the Estonian Mining Museum offers various interesting tours both on the territory of the mining area and farther.
Visiting the oil shale sorting premises and the watchtower.
Looking for fossils present in oil shale and limestone layers on the gangue hill.
A hike or a cycling trip to and on the hiking and learning tracks in the re-cultivated areas of the Aidu quarry.
Viewing the cross section of oil shale layers and how the “moonscape” of processed areas are re-cultivated in the Vanaküla oil shale quarry.
Underground Museum
The underground museum consists of former mining gears with a total length of 1 kilometre. At the museum, equipped with miner’s helmet, lamp and clothing, it is possible to take a look at miner’s work places, the former underground mining technology, the miner’s train and the explosive storage as well as listen to the amazing stories and facts that the tour guides are telling about the exposition.