The largest mining museum in the Czech Republic for visitors who would like to learn more about the extraction of coal in Ostrava. Established in the former Anselm Mine, it is a place where you can learn not only about the history of coal mining, but also about the work of mine rescuers. The complex, named Landek Park after the Landek Hill, offers tastings of miner delicacies at an inn named Harenda.
The Anselm Mine is the oldest mine in Ostrava, with extraction having started here as early as in 1830. After extraction was ceased, the complex was transformed into a mining museum. The visitors go down in an authentic lift which was once used to transport miners; however, the original corridors are not available. Despite that, the illusion of the mine is incredibly convincing.
The visitors can touch and try all of the equipment to see how heavy the tools which miners used to strengthen the location of coal deposits actually were. They will also see operation of the plough which was used to extract coal. The guides for the museum visitors are retired miners. They use the language of old miners, which greatly adds to the atmosphere. The youngest visitors can use the training track for mine rescuers and see how difficult it is to move around buried adits.
The forest on top of the Landek Hill invites everyone for a walk, all the way to an old Slavic hillfort. The owners of this land at the junction of the Oder and the Ostravice guarded the trade-oriented Amber Road, as well as the whole region of Hlučínsko.
Landek is also a place where a unique discovery was made. It is where a team of archaeologists found a sculpture of Venus, which is called the Venus of Landek or the Venus of Petřkovice. A prehistoric hunter carved it 25 thousand years ago and archaeologists discovered it under a mammoth’s molar tooth.
Landek is a place which can be easily accessed via the cycling path which runs along the Oder and alludes to the path running along the Ostravice. The path runs near the centre of Ostrava, all the way to the Beskids.
