Ramsbeck Mining Museum, Mining museum in Bestwig, Germany

Erzbergwerk Ramsbeck is a mining museum in Bestwig, North Rhine-Westphalia, housed inside a former working mine with original tunnels, machinery, and mineral collections on display. The site combines preserved underground workings with above-ground exhibition spaces, giving visitors a look at both levels of a mining operation.

Lead and zinc mining at Ramsbeck is documented from 1740 to 1907, as the title of Jan Ludwig's study of the district's ore mining records. Extraction ended in 1974, and the museum was founded that same year. Since 2024 it has been run by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe as its ninth industrial-heritage site, alongside the municipality of Bestwig and the Hochsauerlandkreis.

The museum opened in 1974, the year mining ended, and has since received about 3.7 million visitors. Its permanent exhibition, redesigned between 2013 and 2015, occupies the 1953 chewing and administration building and includes machines, mineral collections, interactive stations such as fire-setting and a machine control desk, and a film. Since 2019 the show mine has been a station on Route of Industrial Heritage theme route 12.

Visitors ride the original mine train into the underground tunnels, where the temperature stays cool all year, so a jacket is recommended. Some sections can be narrow and damp, so sturdy footwear and comfortable clothing make the visit easier.

The winding drum in the underground workings was the largest of its kind in the world at the time it was built, according to the museum. Visitors see it during the 1.5 km ride on the original mine train, which carries them 300 m below ground.