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Museum of les Mines de Cercs

Cercs, Berguedà, Barcelona

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Museum of les Mines de Cercs

Monument · Cercs, Berguedà, Barcelona

A museum devoted to coal mining, set up in the former mining colony of Sant Corneli, in Cercs (Berguedà), founded in 1999 and part of the Museu de la Ciència i de la Tècnica de Catalunya. The permanent exhibition occupies the former Miner's Home, built in 1919 as a school and later turned into the colony's social centre, with a café, a barbershop and a cinema. The visit includes a 450-metre ride by mine wagon through the Sant Romà gallery, opened in 1885 and worked until 1991, and covers the daily life of the miners, the school, the dispensary and episodes such as the Fígols revolt of 1932 or the strike of 1977. It also includes a multisensory space adapted for visually impaired people.

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