Carreau Wendel Museum, Mining museum in Petite-Rosselle, France.

The Carreau Wendel Museum occupies the Wendel and Vuillemin pit sites in Petite-Rosselle. Its surface area preserves a tall dark grey steel headframe with bolted lattice and box-beam members, yellow handrails on its platforms, and a red brick building with vertical rows of narrow windows, many broken. The museum also includes underground galleries and machinery such as an AM 100 heading machine and a G210 loader.

Coal was first mined at Petite-Rosselle in June 1856 at the Saint-Charles pit, on a concession held by Charles de Wendel and Georges Hainguerlot. Wendel 1 was sunk from 1865 and entered service in 1868; Wendel 2 reached 218 metres in 1871, and Vuillemin 1 was sunk from 1867 and worked from 1876. Nationalised in 1946, the pits were modernised, and Wendel 3, begun before the war, was completed in 1952 at 900 metres. Extraction ended at Vuillemin in 1962 and at Wendel in 1989, with the site closing on 31 May 1991.

The museum's name comes from the Wendel family, the Lorraine steel dynasty that held the concession with Georges Hainguerlot; the Vuillemin shaft honours Emile Vuillemin, the company's consulting engineer. From 2005 to 2011 the foot of the Vuillemin pit hosted the sound-and-light show Les Enfants du Charbon, written and staged by Sylvie Dervaux, with 300 volunteer performers and technicians in 27 scenes, seen by over 100,000 spectators.

The museum sits near the A320 highway exit toward Forbach and is open Tuesday through Sunday for visits. Guided tours are available to help visitors navigate the underground sections safely and understand the technical aspects of the mine.

Visitors can experience a simulated descent of 1,200 meters at 12 meters per second to observe coal mining operations up close. This ride gives a visceral sense of how miners traveled daily to their work areas.