Bányászattörténeti Múzeum

The Mining History Museum (formerly the Ore and Mineral Mining Museum and later the Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County Mining History Museum) is located in Rudabánya, primarily a mining history collection that, besides the county's mining, also presents local historical artifacts from Rudabánya.

History

The museum's history goes back to the 1950s, when the local iron ore mine community created a local history collection in 1955, and on September 3, 1956 the first museum exhibition was opened.

The nationwide collector's museum, now housed in its own building, the Ore and Mineral Mining Museum, was opened in 1965, and in the following decades it further expanded its collection and also established local exhibitions in several settlements (Telkibánya, Nagybörzsöny, Recsk).

On March 1, 2006 the Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County Museum Directorate took over the management of the Rudabánya museum, and on September 1, 2006 the newly renovated museum building was opened, in which the material relics of the county's mining history were placed.

From January 1, 2013 the Rudabánya City Municipality assumed the museum's maintenance responsibilities, and from that time the institution's name is: Mining History Museum.

Mining History Collection

The museum's most significant exhibition, besides the history of county mining, is the display presenting the development of mining techniques, tools, and processes, which is located in the museum's main building and in the underground exhibition hall beside it.

Mineral and Fossil Collection

The collection, created in 1980, is located in the Aladár Földvári exhibition hall and, besides the more significant minerals occurring in Hungary, also presents the local fossil history through paleontological finds discovered on site.

Underground Exhibition Hall

The exhibition hall built in 1969 showcases the most common mining methods, and at the end of the 15‑meter-long cut a mining workshop was also established.