Norwegian Mining Museum

The Norwegian Mining Museum (Norwegian Norsk Bergverksmuseum ) is the Norwegian National Museum of Mining. The museum is located in Kongsberg in the former Smeltehytte of 1844 at the Hyttegata 3 and has its extension to the old silver mine Kongsberg ( Kongsberg Sølvverk ) in Saggrenda 59.63 ° N, 9.6 ° O59.6327789.599444. The museum conveys through its various exhibitions 335jährige the history of mining in Kongsberg.

Museum departments

The museum building in Kongsberg is also home to other various other lines of business that do not deal directly with the issue of mining. These include the Royal Mint Museum, the Kongsberg Industry Museum, the arms factory museum at Kongsberg Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk the former and the Kongsberg Ski Museum, which share the same premises with the mining museum. In addition to the Norwegian Mining Museum also includes the office in Saggrenda with a museum in the former mine buildings, the local silver mine Kongsberg, the residential and worker barracks ( " Sakkerhusene " ) in the vicinity of the mines and the mining landscape of Knutefjell it. The museum also offers special hikes and guided tours for mining around Kongsberg and environment.

Royal Mint Museum

The royal mint was established in 1686 by King Christian V and was an important part of the silver mine Kongsberg until its closure in 1958. The Münzunternehmen was from 1962 performed by the Norwegian Ministry of Finance until later transferred to Norges Bank, and in 2001 as a limited liability company to the Samlerhuset AS and Mint of Finland Ltd.. was sold. The museum collections remained entirely untouched in sales. The current coin museum in the Norwegian Mining Museum has copies of almost all the coins from the time of Christian IV to this day.

Kongsberg Ski Museum

The also located at the same site Kongsberg Ski Museum was founded on the initiative of the Norwegian ski coupler Birger Ruud. The museum about the history of the ski through the various periods, especially the Norwegian and especially Kongsberg ski history, and from skiing by the mid-1920s to the 1950s and now.

Arms Factory Museum Kongsberg

Last was included at the site of the mine museum, the former Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk ( Kongsberg weapons factory). The museum is relatively small, but equipped with a variety of elaborate exhibits. The museum informed of developments in weapons and defense industry up to the present time.

Sakkerhusene

Sakkerhusene is a workers' housing estate in Saggrenda with the former houses and barracks, which were inhabited by the miners and commuters to the end of mining in Kongsberg. The buildings of the condominium various functions ( up to a cafeteria for employees of museums and silver mines ). Some of the buildings are still set up as in the days when the mine was still in operation and can be visited in special tours of tourists.

Silbergrube

Perhaps the most important part of the Norwegian Mining Museum, the former silver mines of Kongsberg Sølvverk in Saggrenda, which is located approximately 7 km west of Kongsberg.

During the summer, visitors can support in the former silver mine, retract the Christian VII cleats and the largest silver mine, the Kongens Gruve ( King mine ), with the former mine railway and track cars. The mine can be visited by tourists up to 2300 meters into the mountain 340 meters below the surface and traveled. One of the highlights in the silver mine is the old driving skills that can be set in motion, as it was earlier in the silver mine near the miners usual.

Outside the museums and the silver mines and the Sakkerhusene settlement, visitors can participate in the summer at various other activities, such as at the old mining technique of fire setting.