📜 Unique underground museum in Pernik, Bulgaria, established in 1986, built within a former coal mine.
🔍 Showcases the history of coal mining from 1891 to the late 1970s, with 630 meters of galleries and 30 expositions.
🚶 Walk through authentic mining galleries spanning 630 meters and experience miner's life.
🎧 Interactive exhibition with sound and light recreating mining reality.
⛏️ See original tools, machines, and transportation equipment, including the first Siemens locomotive (1925).
🌍 Only museum of its kind on the Balkan Peninsula.
👨👩👧👦 Suitable for all ages, daily safety checks performed.
🗣️ Not all tour guides speak English.
🥶 Bring warm clothes, temperature is near zero year-round.
🅿️ Parking available directly in front of the mine.
🎟️ Tickets purchased at the regional history museum next door.
⏳ Tours run every hour, last about 40 minutes.
🕒 Daily 9:00 – 17:00 (winter working hours).
📞 +359 76 60 37 37 📧 museum_pernik@abv.bg
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