Museum Industriekultur Osnabrück, Industrial heritage museum in Osnabrück, Germany

Museum Industriekultur Osnabrück is housed in the Haseschachtgebäude, a shaft building completed in 1871 at the Piesberg. Its permanent exhibition covers coal mining, steam power, early factories and early industrialisation, and displays two mechanically functional steam engines from 1849 and 1916 that drive a lathe, drill and milling machine in a historic metal workshop.

The Haseschachtgebäude was completed in 1871 for the Piesberg colliery, which closed on 8 June 1898. From 1906 the building housed workers of the Piesberger Steinindustrie; during the Second World War it served as a prisoner-of-war camp, and after 1945 refugees from Silesia lived there until the 1960s. Restoration began in 1985, and the museum opened in 1994.

The museum's cultural offer extends beyond the Haseschacht building: in the Piesberger Gesellschaftshaus, built in 1871 as the colliery's guest and club house, the museum runs a historic printing workshop. From April to October, a light railway (Feldbahn) runs on the first and third Sunday of each month, carrying visitors from the museum into the industrial landscape around the Piesberg.

A glass elevator takes you down about 100 feet (30 meters) into the original mining tunnel where you can walk through the underground spaces. The site has substantial exhibits, so allow adequate time to explore everything at a comfortable pace.

The underground tunnel runs roughly 300 meters through the former mining complex, allowing visitors to see the original rock face and experience what the mining environment felt like. This passage was excavated by miners over 150 years ago and remains in very good condition.