Upper Harz Mining Museum

It is one of the oldest technological museums in Germany and concentrates on the history and presentation of mining in the Upper Harz up to the 19th century.

Its exhibits include: The history of the mining museum began in 1884, when the Berghauptmann Adolf Achenbach called upon the miners in a directive to bring in artefacts, especially disused tools associated with historical mining, to put together a collection to start a museum.

In this period to the end of the 1980s the mining museum had annual visitor numbers than ran to six figures.

Nevertheless, around 5.5 million people have visited the Upper Harz Mining Museum to date (as at March 2010).

The museum also hires out an extremely effective and inexpensive electronic guide system 'E.guide EMIL, which provides commentary along a walking route that 'follows the footsteps of former miners' through the landscape of the disused mines.