Piast Mine, Mining museum in Lower Silesia, Poland

The Piast Mine museum occupies the former Nowa Ruda hard coal mine at Obozowa 4. Its exhibition in the old dispatchers' building covers local coal mining, with tools, work clothes and models of old buildings and machines, plus the "Lech" shaft structure. Underground, a 700 m route runs horizontally through the "Lech" adit in the former "Piast" mining field, with working machines such as a shearer loader and a coal cutter.

The museum opened in 1996, four years after Czesław Lis, an employee of the Nowa Ruda coal mine, proposed it in 1992; the city authorities approved the plan. It was built on the training gallery (Sztolnia Ćwiczebna) of the mining school and occupies the former coal mine, with displays in the old dispatcher's building. Barbara Korbas now owns it through the tourist firm "Kopalnia Węgla".

The museum occupies the former Nowa Ruda hard coal mine, and its underground route runs through the "Lech" adit in the old "Piast" mining field. Visitors meet a figure called the Skarbnik, a miner spirit from Silesian folklore, and see the "ul", a mining toilet. The site is run by Barbara Korbas under the name Przedsiębiorstwo Usług Turystycznych "Kopalnia Węgla".

The 700-metre underground route in the Lech adit runs horizontally, so no climbing is required. The visit ends with a ride on an electric mining train of three original four-axle cars pulled by a German Jung battery locomotive from 1963; it carries up to 36 people on about 200 metres of track with a 430 mm gauge. The museum is open all year round, daily except some holidays, with entry at fixed times that depend on the season.

The underground route ends with a ride on an electric mining train: three original four-axle passenger cars pulled by a German Jung battery locomotive from 1963. It carries up to 36 people over about 200 metres of track with a 430 mm gauge. Outside stands another train from the Słupiec mine on 600 mm rails.