Impressions from a training with rescue dogs in our tunnel: a volunteer team of Unit Cynotechnic of the Red Cross with the support of some employees and guides from our museum was in action.

The preparations for the new season have begun: here you can see two employees of the technical service, Liam and Dany, at work.

An instructive safety course was held on Saturday, March 11, 2023 for volunteers, guides, train drivers and for the MNM staff. Instructors were the head of the technical service, Raymond Hoffmann, and the responsible for safety, Gilles Krier

The MNM General Assembly met last Friday, 3 March in the new multipurpose room. Result: 10.400 persons in 2022 visited our tunnel. A big “Thank You” to the Ministry of Economy, Tourism Section, to the City of Rumelange and to all of you.

On February 19th and on March 12th and 19th 2023, you can again take part in our guided tour Mine & Train with your family, friends and acquaintances or alone. Follow the guide into the abandoned tunnels of the Walert mine, more than 80m below ground. See the mining machines, experience the miners’ work and listen to the stories of more than 100 years of iron ore mining. The language of the tour depends on the majority of visitors present. Audioguides in German, French, English and Dutch are [...]

  The visitors will be equipped with an IPad tablet and a helmet. After a journey by mining train with a digital quiz, the tour continues in the mine about 1 km walk. Guided by «Spooky», the phantom of the mine, you will discover the world of the miner through animations in virtual and augmented reality. The tour with iPad takes place: on January 22 with departures at 14:00 and 15:00; on February 5 with departure at 14:00 and 15:00; on April 23 with departures at 9:00 and 10:00; on Mai 21 w [...]

On a tour of about 3 km you go through the main gallery of the Walert over into the mine Langengrund. There our historian will show and explain to you rooms and galleries that are nomally inaccessible to the public. Before the Walert und Langengund mines were closed in the 1960s, they had developed a network of galleries on an area of 80 hectares. Our guide shows you among other things the place where Jean-Pierre Bausch died in a work accident and the last mine car which left the last Lorraine m [...]

. On April 16th and October 29th 2023 Only 12 participants admissible - advance booking needed During a photo tour, you can get to know the galleries in a different way – and capture them photographically. First, you walk through our underground illuminated exhibition with the historical reconstructions and the partly very impressive mining machines. Then we head to the unlit part of the mine “Langengrund” with its old substation and the underground air compressor room of the mine HADIR-Langengr [...]