Duration: 1h 15mins
Live guide: Dutch
The life of a coal miner is a tough and dirty job but someone has to do it. Journey back in time at Steenkolenmijn (aka the Coal Mine Valkenburg) with a Dutch guide, see how coal mining machines worked, and find out if you'd have been suited to a life underground.
Watch a film in a subterranean cinema designed to look like a mine! Learn about the mining industry thanks to a film from the mid-1960s, then join your Dutch speaking guide for an underground adventure at south Limburg's Steenkolenmijn.
All guides at Steenkolenmijn (aka the Coal Mine Valkenburg) are former mine workers, were raised in mining families, or have some other kind of connection with the mining world, and they have some pretty exciting stories to tell!
Let your host take you back in time and even show you how their special machines were used to extract coal.
