A LOGO FOR THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE HISTORICAL MINING CENTER!
In 2024, the Historical Mining Center is celebrating its 40th anniversary of opening to the public! For this occasion, a dynamic logo with festive colors was created to accompany all the highlights that will punctuate this anniversary. All the elements of the mine are stylized – headframe, slag heaps, mining town – to reflect the […]
EXCEPTIONAL ATTENDANCE LEVELS IN 2023 AT THE HISTORICAL MINING CENTER!
In 2023, 180,229 of you (re)discovered the site, the coal mining galleries, the major thematic exhibitions, temporary exhibitions such as The mine makes its cinema or Miners of Ukraine, photographs by Youry Bilak, the cultural events, seminar spaces and even the restaurant Le Briquet. This attendance record is a symbolic milestone for the eighty employees of the […]
EXHIBITION – CONQUERING THE WEST
The Mining History Centre traces the history of the discovery of coal in Pas-de-Calais with its new temporary exhibition Conquering the West. At the beginning of the 19th century, the industrial revolution accelerated and the coal exploited in the North of France gradually became its driving force. However, unsuccessful drilling around Arras suggests that the deposit […]
EXHIBITION GRAVITY ROAD BY JESSE DARLING (TURNER PRIZE WINNER 2023)
Gravity Road, refers to a section of sloping railway used to transport coal from mines, built in Pennsylvania in 1827, which would become a real attraction, a precursor to the modern roller coaster. In 2020, Jesse Darling creates an eponymous, dysfunctional, broken-down roller coaster sculpture that becomes an anti-monument to a modernity celebrating progress, acceleration […]
MINERS OF UKRAINE, PHOTOGRAPHS BY YOURY BILAK
Youry Bilak has been immersed in Ukrainian culture since childhood, inherited from his parents who fled to France after the Second World War. Alongside a career as a dancer, singer and actor, he devoted himself to his passion: photography and he set out to discover Hutsuls in the Carpathians. With Miners of Ukraine, Youry Bilak offers a selection […]
The Mining History Centre achieves the national Tourism Quality label
In March, the Mining History Centre achieved the national Tourism Quality label with a compliance rate of over 96% for the 237 criteria judged! All of the services it provides to the public were analysed: information and bookings, signs, the ticket office welcome, the visit, services such as the museum’s restaurant, store and café, the […]
