Photographs from this collection as well as three- dimensional exhibits in other funds document the development of mining, illustrate raw material extraction since the medieval times, changes in technology as well as in miners' life, development of mining dresses, vistas of mining towns, industrial architecture, old mining works, portraits of distinguished engineers and mining scholars, views of different expositions and exhibitions oriented on mining not only in the National Technical Museum, and additional documentation illustrating the field development.
The literature files comprise written works on mining and thus complete the files of Archive and Library of the National Technical Museum. They contain firms' literature, textbooks, mining journals, scientific papers, books and reprints of works of distinguished Czech scholars (e.g. Dr. Jiri Majer, Jindrich Ladislav Barvir, Jan Koran, Jiri Schenk, and others).