Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum
The towering headframe, a rapid descent underground, 1.2 kilometres of machinery – this can only be a former mine! But it isn't. Or rather, it is many mines at once. Because here, in the world's largest mining museum and Leibniz Research Museum for Geo-resources, it's all about mining in general and its consequences: in the Ruhr District, the Sauerland and Siegerland regions and elsewhere …