Bányászati Kiállítóhely

About the museum

The Bányászati Kiállítóhely is located in the mining colony area of Salgótarján, on the eastern edge of Veremoldal. The József sloping shaft worked the lower bench of the Nógrád coal basin from 1937 to 1951; the remaining upper-level galleries then continued to operate as a mine-rescue training gallery. During the work begun in the early 1960s, some of the galleries were converted for museum display, and on 30 April 1965 Hungary’s first underground mining museum opened, the second natural underground mining museum in Europe. In 1980 it was declared an industrial monument.

After the closure of the Nógrád coal mines in 1992, the museum was taken over by the Nógrád County Council; today it is maintained by Salgótarján, the county-righted city. The underground exhibition was renewed in 2005, and the surface permanent exhibition was modernised in 2018 and supplemented with interactive elements. Visitors can follow the mining process in a gallery system of about 290 metres, from pick hewing through drill-and-blast work and pneumatic hammer mining to cutter-drum face mining, while on the surface an open-air mining-machinery museum and the exhibition “A nógrádi szénbányászat története 1848–1992” (The History of Nógrád Coal Mining 1848–1992) await them.

Highlights

• Underground mining museum in the galleries of the József sloping shaft
• Hungary’s first and Europe’s second underground mining museum
• Open-air mining-machinery museum
• The history of Nógrád coal mining, 1848–1992
• Industrial monument; a mining helmet (kobak) is provided for visitors

Permanent exhibitions

• Földalatti bányamúzeum – Exhibition set up in the original gallery system of the József sloping shaft, showing the development of mining work from pick hewing to modern face mining.
• A nógrádi szénbányászat története 1848–1992 – The surface permanent exhibition presents mining in the Nógrád coal basin and the town’s mining past.
• Bányagép-skanzen – Open-air machinery park in front of the entrance to the sloping shaft, with mining machines and a scale model of a shaft tower.

Founded

1965

Operated by

Salgótarján Megyei Jogú Város Önkormányzata (Dornyay Béla Múzeum)

Admission & discounts

Free admission: On national holidays (15 March, 20 August, 23 October) every visitor pays only the HUF 1,000 guided-tour fee; on the last Saturday of every month, students under 26 with a student card and up to two adults accompanying a child under 18 may visit the permanent exhibitions free of charge.

The admission ticket prices include a guided-tour fee of HUF 1,000. Visitors aged 70 and over, people with disabilities accompanied by one companion, teachers, journalists and ICOM members pay only the guided-tour fee. Prices are valid from 1 March 2026.

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