Worth a visit to understand the history of coal mines
A very good tour in English, history and lots of details about the history of the area. We had a 2 hour guided tour, the buildings have been preserved and lots of informative detail in each zone. We w...
a must to see when you are in the Borinage/centre region
We visited with a group of 20, the guide was fluent in English ( and Dutch) and was extremely good. He not only talked about the obvious things to see ( well worth the visit) but gave a lot of histori...
There is something a bit odd about visiting a museum that actually includes real people’s houses. The first part of the tour walks you through the mining village and many of the houses are occupied. H...
We visited on a cold November weekend. The visitors' centre was open and we were allowed to walk around, just didn't get to see anything inside. It's part of the coal mining World heritage site and mi...
Impressive and sinister
Standing at one of the craddles of industrialization. Both impressive and sinister. There is an entire city for the miners next to the facility.
Worth a visit to understand the history of coal mines
A very good tour in English, history and lots of details about the history of the area. We had a 2 hour guided tour, the buildings have been preserved and lots of informative detail in each zone. We w...
a must to see when you are in the Borinage/centre region
We visited with a group of 20, the guide was fluent in English ( and Dutch) and was extremely good. He not only talked about the obvious things to see ( well worth the visit) but gave a lot of histori...
Excellent Audio Guide and an Interesting Place
There is something a bit odd about visiting a museum that actually includes real people’s houses. The first part of the tour walks you through the mining village and many of the houses are occupied. H...
Main site closed
We visited on a cold November weekend. The visitors' centre was open and we were allowed to walk around, just didn't get to see anything inside. It's part of the coal mining World heritage site and mi...