Upper Harz Mining Museum
The Upper Harz Mining Museum is a museum of art and cultural history in Clausthal- Zellerfeld. It is one of the oldest art museums in Germany and focuses on the representation of the Upper Harz mining until the 19th century.
Exhibition content
The museum is located in the center of the district Zellerfeld. On display are the following:
- Teaching models from the collection of the mountain school. These were created for training purposes in the 18th and 19th centuries and are still excellent for explaining arts, especially art of driving and other mining equipment.
- Mine with visitors' gallery, created from original machinery and buildings of a buck Wieser mine.
- Outdoor area with Pferdegaipel, Radstube, Art linkage, crushing mill (all from the original premises dislocated )
- Notes to the Upper Harz Water Regale
- Manufacture of the oldest wire ropes that have been invented in 1834 in Clausthal- Zellerfeld by Julius Albert.
- Coins: minting had a special meaning in one of the major silver mining areas in Germany.
- Minerals, tools and mining lamps.
- Typical residential spaces from the living and working environment of the Upper Harz population.
- Film Screening with original recordings from the bay silver blessing and the Kaiser- Wilhelm- bay from 1924
History
The history of the mine museum began in 1884, when the then Captian Adolf Achenbach in a directive to the miners called to supply special old appliances of historic mining a collection to build a museum. In 1892, then was officially founded as a museum of the district Zellerfeld.
After the merger of the previously independent cities Zellerfeld Clausthal and the double town of Clausthal -Zellerfeld in 1926 the vacant Zellerfelder City Hall could be obtained. In subsequent years, the outdoor area was built with the show mine.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the Museum of Herbert Dennert was conducted. In these times until the end of the 1980s the mine museum had six digit annual visitor numbers. From about 1990, the number of visitors ( also much more competition from other mining museums in resin such as a decline in tourism in the Upper Harz, but ) decreased significantly for different reasons. However, until today 5.5 million people have visited the Upper Harz Mining Museum.
Others
The mining museum is operated by the Upper Harz History and Museum Society. Any losses were covered in the past by the Municipality Upper Harz and the district of Goslar.
The museum operates as remote offices, the above-ground mines of the disused mines Ottiliae shaft and Kaiser Wilhelm Schacht and recently exposed plant parts ( round Radstube inter alia ) the pit Rosenhof.
The museum gives also an electronic guidance system " E.guide EMIL ", which points to a walk through disused mining landscapes in the footsteps of the miners and this explained.
Since 2009, the museum was awarded the title Registered Museum. Documented this award, that the standards of a qualified museum with the tasks of collecting, preserving, researching, documenting, exhibiting, mediating be filled with qualified personnel.