Mecsek Mining Exhibitions, Museum in Pécs, Hungary

The Mecsek Mining Exhibitions are run by the Central Mining Museum in Pécs at three sites. The history exhibition and library at József Attila utca 5 covers fifty years of uranium mining and holds a mineral and rock collection. The underground exhibition at Káptalan utca 3 occupies a 400-metre cellar system 8–10 metres deep, and the uranium exhibition is in the former school at Kővágószőlős, Rákóczi utca 54.

The Pécs Mining Collection opened in 1974 in the former headquarters of the First Danube Steamship Company at Mária utca 9, and was renamed the Mecsek Mining Museum in 1982. The company had mined coking coal in the Mecsek from 1850 for a century and kept mining tools and documents shown in Pécs in 1888, at the 1896 millennium exhibition and in Paris in 1900. After 1945 the collection also covered uranium mining.

The name comes from the Mecsek Mountains, which have defined the region for generations. The exhibits show how mining shaped local identity and how communities were built around this industry.

The underground tunnels stay cool year-round and require only normal walking ability to explore safely. Tours are available and help visitors understand the exhibits better, while the site remains accessible for most people.

The uranium exhibition is not in Pécs but in Kővágószőlős, in the village's former school building at Rákóczi u. 54, opened in 1997. Its material is closely linked to the Pécs sites, and the source advises seeing all three for a complete picture.