the The Minister of Labor, Georges Mischo, visited the MNM and was impressed by the exhibition and the historical importance of the Minette region to Luxembourg's economic development. He was welcomed and accompanied by MNM president Henri Haine, members of our board of directors and the staff.  

Safety training for the entire MNM team is required every year to ensure visitor safety. This time, Gilles Krier and the Rumelange fire department demonstrated how an injured person is evacuated from the gallery, while Guy Hoffmann and Joe Merres refreshed first-aid skills on site.

The MNM Annual General Meeting drew a very positive balance sheet: last year, we once again welcomed 11,900 visitors. Thanks to the many guides and train drivers, staff and volunteers, the mine remains an important tourist attraction in Luxembourg.

Delegations from the MNM Board of Directors and the Trail organizer "Escher Kulturlaf" have met to ensure the smooth running of a unique experience for runners through our mine. Registration opens on Sunday, March 9, 2025 at: https: //tdm.lu/

The MNM Board of Directors invited the museum’s staff, guides, train drivers and volunteers to a New Year’s drink with a good bite as grateful recognition. A big tank you from the whole team.

In 2025, our museum is open every Sunday in the off-season, in any weather, for young and old. The MNM presents the industrial history of an entire epoch (1870 – 1997) for almost two hours during a guided tour mine & train. You can also discover the culture of the miners up close in the original places where they worked hard, and let us tell you a number of interesting anecdotes from our guides. From January to March and from October to mid-December, our museum is open every Sunday afternoon wit [...]

on february 23th, march 23th and 30th + 7 more dates 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 [...]

The day of St. Barbara was celebrated in honor of the miners with a parade through the city, a memorial ceremony in front of the monument for the miners, a mass in our tunnel and a tasty lunch at the cultural center.

The Museum’s « Technical Service » embarked on the ambitious restauration of a wheel loader type Eimco 912, breathing new life into a piece of history. A delegation of the MNM picked up that engine end of January 2024 in Recklinghausen’s training mine. Design sans titre - 1 Design sans titre - 1

Now in the MNM shop: various historical models of carbide lamps as a decorative object. Also perfect for as a gift, for collecting or as a souvenir.

New in the MNM shop: - a box set with three carefully curated bottles of gin, each exquisite in 5cl portions. The collection embodies a harmonious fusion of exceptional aromas and first-class quality from local cultivation made in Luxembourg by Opyos Beverages in Keiwelbach.

Shortly before the start of the new season, our team of volunteers replaced with great commitment the wooden stamps of a side mine. If you would like to see the result and many other elements, simply register for one of the guided tours. In the booking link, the dates of the whole season, also for the next Sunday, are available. Booking and tickets: www.mnm.lu (Booking) Design sans titre - 8

A delegation of our technical service picked up a wheel loader type Eimco 912 in Recklinghausen’s training mine this week. This machine was there in the exhibition and will now be made fit again to be used in our museum. A big thank you for the warm welcome to the team of the Trainingsbergwerk in Recklinghausen and to the truck driver of the transport company Tauschlag Gelsenkirchen.

Images from ancient times: the miner Isidore Baltes called Philippe (in the white jersey) with a mate in a French tunnel. The photos come from his son, Manuel Baltes. A big thank you for that.