Our topical expositions

 
exhibition of the history of mining and metallurgy in the Mansfeld area in the barock style Humbold manor-house

  

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geology, minerals and fossils of the copper-shale (copper-slate)

 

 

open-air exibition of mining metallurgical equiment, partly historical

 

first german Watt type steam engineerected 1785 near the Mansfeld museum, reconstructed in original size in 1985
steam locomotive and waggons of the formerly Mansfeld narrow-gauge mining railway

 

steam boiler machine type ES 7, produced by the Buckau R. Wolf manufactory (sometimes under steam)
ventilation shaft "Lichtloch 24 / light-hole 24" to the deep Mansfeld mining tunnel ("Schlüsselstollen - key-tunnel")
mediation of trips with the mining railway (Klostermansfeld-Hettstedt-Eduardshaft)
library and video library with historical film documents
guided tours for groups through the Mansfeld mining area (geology, mining history) only by appointment
sale of souvenirs

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The MANSFELD - MUSEUM is situated in the south of the little old mining town Hettstedt, 60 km southern of the federal capital Magdeburg or 50 km western of the town Halle. It is attainable from the Federal Highways B 86 or B 180 (please pay attention to signposts)