Saint Etienne Mine Museum

The Saint-Etienne Mine Museum is a French exhibition hall established in 1991 in the city of Saint-Etienne in the French bureau of the Loire arranged in the Rhone-Alpes district. The site is enlisted as a chronicled landmark since 2011. Officially named "Puits Couriot" Couriot Coalmine/Parc Musee de la Mine Museum Park", it is set up in the structures of the last coal pit of the city. The Couriot pit site covers a zone of 115 hectares. It is the best safeguarded leftover and the most complete appearing of the coal movement of the region.

The offices arranged over the ground reacted to the need to course men, coal and hardware in a similar constrained space. So as to oversee traffic stream close to the pit, the site was sorted out under an arrangement of stages where previous quarries used to be. Washing rooms and arranging plants were introduced on the lower stage called the "platre" the mortar and were crushed in 1969. The site is additionally part of a social program performing expressions, film screenings, celebrations. It was granted the Musee de France name.