landek park mining museum

The mining museum offers an interesting insight in the mining industry that once dominated Ostrava. Guided tour to the mine, including live demo of working mining equipment. Lots of interesting artifacts. The museum itself focuses a lot on security, displaying an old ambulance and various resque equipment. Recommended sight in Ostrava.

We were a group of 12 people and they offered a guide that speaks good English. Overall the experience is really cool, as you get to see the mine itself closely. Do visit the restaurant on site of Landek, they have really good meal too.

This one is great! We loved the personnel, so inviting, so nice and charmi. They are former employees, having special realtionship to the place and history. One can feel the love they still have to the place, to their job.... Perfect expositions, one can touch everything, try end experience the real job of teh miner. Nice place, very clean, well equiped and full information cover. A nice and cheep restaurant in the area. Toilets a bit worse, but working.

Had a chance to visit this place on Sunday Nov 02. Only working attraction was the coal mining museum. Everything else was closed. Sad place even the weather was wonderful. Anyway good opportunity to make a nice hike in Landek forest that spans at the hill above the museum.

good place to see history of Ostrava and there is a good traditional restaurant with national cuisine. Good time for whole family.

This place is one of the a-must-see in Ostrava if you are interested in industrial architecture and tourism. Other places to visit are Michal coal mine and Dolní oblast Vítkovice. History of coal-mining will be shown you by the experts, ex-workers of ostrava's coal mines. There's also big and interesting exhibition of mine rescue service. Outside you could see wide range of coal-mining mechanisms. There's a path leading to small wooden viewing-tower on the top of the Landek hill and lot of possibilities for cycling.

Quite impressive place to see, even you aren't fan of mining. The exposition of real conditions and mining area is just a place you'll remember.

Very interesting open air museum focused on black coal mining. The Landek Hill itself is connected with cavemans and early settlement. Good for whole family, if the weather is good. The surrounding area is good for cycling.

amazing place to visit with family lots of fun for kids, great food good bowling!!!!! very happy visit!!!!!!!!!!!

The Landek Park is a large sprawling complex that has a museum that goes into the lives of rescue workers and what it was like to be a miner. You do actually get to go into a part of defunct mine and see real equipment that was used. These tours give you a greater feel and respect for what miners have had to endure over the years. Wheelchair access to most parts of this complex is not possible or very difficult at the best. You can reach it by car, but you will park outside of the complex and then have to walk to the different areas. There is also a lookout tower which you can climb and enjoy the view. Expect to spend at least three hours here since the two guided tours about rescue workers and the mine itself take one hour each. Anyone planning to visit Ostrava should consider adding this to their itinerary, since mining has been a big part of its history. Tours can be conducted in English as I understand, even though we took the Czech versions.

I am not a technician, this trip was a git for my husband which I have thought I would have to suffer. To my surprise it was prepared very well, it is also nice for children as they are allowed to try some exhibits. The best think is that the guides are former miners and they are very good. They are competent and good-natured. I was not bored a minute!

we could go down the mine. Our guide was ex-employe (rentier) that means that the explanation was easy to understand and truly from the life.

Great for children and adults as well. First time I seen on my mind how the coal was mined. The guide was ex coal miner and provided details of each presented part of the job plus many storis from the real coal miners life. Highly recommended tourist destination sport. Also the little diesel train is impressive and lovely for the children - but can take also adults.

I have visited various mining ghost towns in the US but the Landek Park Mining Museum was an entirely different experience. For one, this was the very first time that I actually visited a mine underground and got to see how people here used to earn a living. Visitors first visit a mining museum with lots of equipment, where it is explained how miners worked. Later the tour continues underground in the Dul Ed. Urxe, where visitors get to explore through the underground mining shafts. The tour guide was a former coal miner, as were several of those on the tour, who brought their grandchildren. The tour was about 90 min long. It was in Czech, which I speak, and it didn't occur to me to inquire about tours in English. They probably have tourguides who speak English, though I have no idea how often these are offered. The tour I was on had about 50 people, so getting down into the mine by the original elevator took a while. Ostrava had for most of the 20th century a bad reputation as a dirty city with very bad air quality. Today it is a clean and pleasant city with a past that can be revisited in a place like Landek Park. I went here with a friend who had a 2 year old in a stroller and eventhough the tour was pretty long, the 2 year old seemed to enjoy the experience, we had no problems. Once we emerged from the underground, there is a mining train that had been turned into a children's ride and also a restaurant where we had lunch. The meal was average at best, but it was also pretty inexpensive. Overall this was a great visit and I would recommend this park and museum to visitors to the Ostrava region.

This is a large park with a variety of things to do. Unfortunately, there is virtually no information in English and it was difficult even to purchase tickets to the mine tour and rescue exhibition. There is a lot of mining equipment strewn about the grounds but no information to explain it. The mine tour is entirely in Czech and includes a 20+ minute discourse after you first enter the mine. Once we began moving, there were things to see and my husband understood most of them with no need for the commentary. I was totally clueless. The situation improved slightly at the mine rescue exhibit as the tour guide found us booklets in English, but they were of limited use. There was another 20 minutes of lecture before we could move on to see the equipment and the video which we could understand somewhat. I am not complaining about the lack of information in English but rather letting you know that it could be, in this location, a detriment to enjoying the attraction.We had lunch nearby at Harenda U Barborky, originally a miners pub. Food was good and reasonably priced though several things had been crossed off the already limited menu.