Mining Museum "Landek Park"
   Photo: Museum of Mining "Landek Park"

Excursion to the cognitive "Landek Park" - an opportunity to fall into this pit, archaeologists pass road, scenic views - and all this without leaving far from Ostrava.

Mining Museum is located at the mountain Landeck in a small village in the vicinity of Ostrava Petrshkovitsy - the capital of the Moravian-Silesian region. Now it is a protected area and before then conducted intensive mining of black coal. Historical Gallery, it was decided not to close, and arrange them in a museum. The oldest mine was based on the slope of Landeck in the XVIII century. Its name - "Anselm" - known to all lovers of informative exhibits.

This tunnel can descend anyone to feel like a real miner. The traveler can pass through ordinary miners. He sees the locker room, showers, shop, room, which houses the equipment, boiler room area where ore is being developed. Guides will tell that the profession of miner appeared in these places long ago. Coal mining on the mountain Landeck engaged people who lived 23,000 years ago.

After visiting the mines of tourists waiting for the wonderful trails of the reserve route in search of a place where archaeologists found a small statuette of hematite, later called Landetskoy Venus. This sculpture the size of 46 mm several tens of thousands of years, it is preserved in the archaeological collection of Brno. Other similar statues in Europe has not been found, so it is unique. Especially interesting to see with their own eyes the place of its discovery.

During the tour, tourists will talk about the secrets of the work of archaeologists, show the basic techniques to carefully extract the ancient artifacts from the ground, and explain how to identify them.

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