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Vernissage photos Silesian photographer Arkadiusz Gola Women mine inaugurated its art galleries in the museum Zmiękczalnia mining "Queen Louise" in Zabrze.

Gallery is located in the small-storey detached building of the former zmiękczalni water. The building was built in 1916 and served to soften the water used to produce steam for the hoisting machine supports the mine shaft. A working steam engine still is the pride of the museum Zabrze.

Install water-softening in the current gallery to work to the 70s Twentieth century. Then, for three decades, the building became empty. A chance to restore him to life has become, Zabrze, Poland implemented a project to create a European Centre of Technical Culture and Tourism Industry.

Centre which, thanks to EU subsidies amounting to nearly 41.5 million zł arises in Zabrze, the institution will be covering several unique sights on a European scale Industrial: Historic Coal Mine "Guido", "Królowa Louise, the Coal Mining Museum, and the main key Sough.

Implementation of the project - a $ 69 million zł - is to be completed in 2011, then - but both levels of the mine's popular today, "Guido" - start a business is the main attraction of the Centre - an underground tourist route including, amongst other numbering about 2 km section (formerly known as extending a distance of 14 km, from Zabrze to Chorzow) Hereditary Adit. The route began

will be the "Queen Louise." Tourists waiting for the descent into the earth will be able to include visit the exhibition in Zmiękczalni. For now, Saturday - exploring the terrestrial part of the museum - you can see there an exhibition of portraits of women working in coal mines in Upper Silesia, by Arkadiusz Gola. As recognized by the quoted author in the exhibition catalog, "soon will be time for that in heavy physical work in positions of women will not work at all. Just as it did several years ago with women who work in underground mines."

series of portraits of women Gola made in 2007-2009 documenting the occasion of the interior of an old mine, "Poland-Wirek" (now "Halemba-Wirek"), as well as existing mines: Bielszowice "," Sośnica-Makoszowy "," Mysłowice- Cheerful, "" Murcki "," Wieczorek "," Uncle "(the movement of" Silesia ")," Staszic "," Boleslaw the Bold "and" Peace. "

According to the Coal Mining Museum staff who will look after art projects Zmiękczalni, it will be presented in such exhibitions relating to the former industrial nature of this place. This mood is to emphasize the revitalized interior galleries, decorated in bright colors, dark lines cut by steel building construction elements, as well as stairs and railings. Similarly Zmiękczalnia looks from the outside - warm beige walls with dark colors, steel beams and window frames.

Source: Onet.pl

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More than 5 million people annually visited by 75 tunnels, caves, cellars, dungeons and mines. There you can listen to the concert, get married, look for treasures survive the bombing raid and walk on hot coals

Szumska Elizabeth, owner of an abandoned gold mine in Zloty Stok, Lower Silesia, rubbing his hands. Its underground tourist route this year has been visited by over 150 thousand. tourists. - Last year we had them 140 thousand. And we still have two months - enjoy.

600 meters under the ground - the route to the lowest in Poland, the Wieliczka Salt Kłodawa, last year gathered 22 thousand. tourists. Since the beginning of this year - 30 thousand. And this is just an incidental activity of establishments which deal primarily with industrial salt mining. - Tourism is treated as a form of promotion - explains Julian Szałański mine in Kłodawa.

In turn, nearly 42 thousand. people visited in 2008 Miedzyrzecki Fortified Region (Lubuskie), one of the largest fortification systems in Europe, which was to protect Germany from a blow to the Polish. In four years the average number of visitors here has doubled.

A running three years ago, Szczecin Underground tourist routes quickly joined the elite group of seven wonders of the city. One of Europe's largest anti- civil shelters from the time of World War II and the subsequent communist-ish fallout shelter in the last year 10 thousand visitors. people. This year, visitors are already nearly a third more.

with the Association of Polish underground tourist routes shows that the only tunnels in Kowary pouranowe, one of five places in the world where radon inhalation is carried out, recorded a slight decrease. This year it was visited by 90 thousand. people in the past in a similar period - 96 thousand.

- It takes just a matter of nuisance due to repair sewers in Kowary - explains Slawomir Adamski, the head of the tunnel.

- sheer Wieliczka Salt Mine a million visitors a year all of the Polish underground well over 5 million people - estimated Janusz Cloud, president of the Polish Society for the Protection of Monuments Underground Hades-Poland and member of the Faculty of Mining and Geoengineering Science and Technology, in charge of securing and adaptation underground in Poland. Read more>>

Source: Rzeczpospolita .

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Conference open-air museums Museum of Mining and Underground Mine Adit

currently being built in Poland, many museums and heritage parks underground mining, however, to provide such institutions is not easy either for technical reasons, as well as legislative. On the problems related to the establishment and operation of such establishments was discussed Thursday at the Museum of Krakow Salt Mine Museum participants of the Conference of Underground Mining and open-air museums.

meeting - which, according to conference participants pointed out - was an opportunity to exchange experiences.

"is formed out of a whole group of objects, especially in Silesia, which, after cessation of the operation of mines are left to use. They use them to historians of mining and sympathizers who want to adapt them the underground tourist routes. I think Mine might derive formulas, as traditions go back to the museum Wieliczka nineteenth century, a tradition of sharing the excavations are much older, "- said the PAP Cracow Saltworks Museum Director Professor. Jodłowski Antoni.

He remarked that the conference is the first attempt to connect and enter informal relationships. He also expressed hope that such conferences will be held periodically.

Among the participants of the conference, alongside such "champions" of interests, such as Wieliczka Salt Mine were also representatives of the newly established institutions, Learner's like mine in Dąbrowa to 1927, the last item of mine in this city.

Referrers presented including complex issues of revitalization of the historic old mine "Queen Louise" and the Main Key Hereditary Adit in Zabrze, the revitalization of the former coal mine, post-mining land use in Tarnowski Gory and areas of prehistoric flint mines in Krzemionki banded near Ostrowiec.

also affected the deliberations of the risks and the technical and legislative requirements governing the creation of an underground facility for tourists. How to raise Janusz The cloud from the University of Mining and Metallurgy, working in a team dealing with the implementation of safety work and adaptation workings in order to make it available, not all facilities are underground mining excavations, such as enjoying a growing interest tunnels from World War II.

"Construction Law does not include, and the Geological and Mining Law applies to innnych objects. The approach of adaptation to use them as an object of mine to meet all the rigors of mining, although this is not a mining facility. However, these take place involving teams of construction professionals and mining "- explained the specialist. He emphasized that this is a loophole.

On Friday, participants in the two-day Conference of the Museum of Underground Mining and open-air museums familiar with the deals and the organization of tourism in selected outlets, including the Salt Mine in Wieliczka, Bochnia Salt Mine, a coal mine in Nowa Ruda, the Museum of Gold in.

conference is organized by the Museum of Krakow Salt Mine.

Source: Gazeta Wyborcza .

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landing a few dozen meters down the ladders give you a hard time. Later hewn into the rock hall in the Napoleonic era have good bend his neck.

Zabrze project involves providing tourists 2.5 km section of the tunnel key is inherited from the shaft Carnall unearthed until buried out of place in the region of the tunnel. Ruler.

Adit was founded in the nineteenth century. Combined mines in the Royal King and Queen Louise Huta in Zabrze. The initial episode was used to dewater the underground workings and from the shaft Zabrze boats floated down that way with coal, which then flowed on the surface of the canal Bytomką Kłodnica.

Tourists have defeated the entire train and boat tour. Along the way, one of the attractions will be visiting the port of embarkation from the underground reconstructed quay, crane, a small railway junction and stables.

problem is that the originators were not sure what you will find at the bottom. In last year's team penetrated cavers Although a significant section of the tunnel, from entering the pl. Scoops, but extending the underground directly beneath the shaft were a riddle.

- Well, we can breathe. Adit is where it should have, and it is in excellent state - has a Leszek Zurek, chief Guido Zabrze mine. Zurek two days before mine rescue team head who first penetrated this part of the underworld. Now is our guide. When half bend traverse a corridor carved into the rock, every now and then glances at the camera to measure the oxygen level. To him it was plentiful, the air from the top all the time it is pressed a powerful pipe. Fragment of the tunnel, through which we walk, was built in 1819. Ends solid masonry dam. - Some 300-400 feet away on the other side is the first underground harbor. But dam open only when you deal with the purification of this passage - says Zurek.

creaks underfoot soft sand. Possibly even two, three meters layer. You have to remove it only to be able to see the passage in all its splendor. Although it is already art builders. Strengthen brick floors look really solid.

- We were afraid what zastaniemy at the bottom. Now we know that is good. We can go to work on - highlights Bartlomiej Szewczyk, Head of strategy and city development. A schedule is tight. Until the end you have to prepare detailed plans for the tunnel and ground-based adaptation building of tourist facilities. Haste is necessary to Zabrze had lost 41 million zł EU grant for the project. If all goes well, the first tourists will arrive down at the end of 2011.

Source: Gazeta Wyborcza Katowice.

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Sough will be available for $ 40 million zł

the end of the project is to be ready to provide visitors with Hereditary Drift Key in Zabrze. In order that adit actually able to see tourists, but have as many as 40 million zł

The fact that the tunnel could be a great attraction in Zabrze, says for years. Only But recently started preparatory work to make it available to tourists. Design and elaboration of this project is to be ready by the end of the year. The city will spend a million gold.

officials awake at night but the amount he spends about 40 million zł, you have to spend at the restaurant tunnel. - We will apply for EU subsidies. We started a conversation with the office of marshal, to be our partner in this project, as in the case of Guido Mine - says Bartlomiej Szewczyk, head of strategy and city development in zabrzańskim magistrate. Key

Sough was in the early nineteenth century. She was 14 km long and was connected mines in the Royal King and Queen Louise Steelworks at Zabrze. Between two cities served to drain the mines, and from the shaft Carnall boats floated down that way with coal, which then flowed into Bytomką Gliwice Canal. It is this last episode to see tourists.

Source: Gazeta Wyborcza Katowice.