Guido Mine and Coal Mining Museum

The Guido mine (Polish: Kopalnia Guido, formerly Zabytkowa Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego) is a historic deep coal mine and museum in Zabrze, Silesia, Poland.

[2] Technically the early mine had to contend with sand and the Saara tectonic fault.

Financial assistance was received from the Upper Silesian Railway Association (German: Oberschlesische Eisenbahn Gesellschaft).

The workings were bought in 1887 by the Prussian Finanzamt- and merge with the Queen Louisa Mine.

[3] The underground museum is 320m beneath the surface, with a second level representing a 19th-century mine at 170m.

[2] There is also an exhibition dedicated to the Politically Repressed Soldier-Miners of the 1950s, youngsters forced to work underground instead of doing military service.