Going back to 1843, the Michal Colliery was created by the Austrian Empire when two shafts were sunk at this spot. The colliery and its outer buildings will fascinate visitors with a bent for industrial history, because it was never modernised after 1915 despite remaining in operation until 1993.
The buildings above ground have been lovingly preserved and will acquaint visitors with the mining lifestyle in the earliest days of electrification. You can follow the footsteps of Ostrava’s last miners as they went about their days between the rest rooms, lamp room, machine room and mining cage.
