The collection contains objects documenting the development
of mining technology as well as procedures and activities of
mining raw materials from the primeval times to the 70s of
this century. The Middle Ages are represented by
a collection of mining tools - pick axes, mallets, iron
pieces, sledges, original troughs, tallow lamps, chains,
ladders, etc.
The early Modern Era is represented by lamps, tools and
components of mining machines (e.g. parts of pumping
equipment). A large collection is devoted to models of
mining equipment predominantly made on the basis of
historical drawings in the works of mining scholars
G.Agricola, L.Ercker, etc. (for instance, winches, various
types of pumps, ore grinders, horse-gears, models of
landscape with mining works, etc.).
An important part of the fund is represented by mining
technology of the 19th and early 20th centuries - various
types of miners' lamps, tools (hammers, axes, scrapers,
drills and others), accessories of miner's outfit (aprons,
helmets, working suits). The collection includes also
objects associated with mining ethnography.
The collection of mining rescue documents the development of
this discipline since the first instruments facilitating
rescue of miners' lives (respiration apparatuses, mask,
etc.) in the second half of 19th century. It is located
within the exhibition of the District Mining Rescue Station Ostrava-Radvanice.
In 1955, a significant fund was taken over from the East-
Bohemian Coal Mines. The collection represents with its
objects not only mining in East Bohemia, but in its
completeness it documents the situation in the whole
republic since the mid-19th century.
In the underground of the National Technical Museum there is
a replica of the coal and ore mine (from the early 50s) in
the scale 1:1 which contains a large collection of mining
machines and equipment.
