Zonguldak Mining Museum

Zonguldak Mining Museum is positioned in Zonguldak. A coal mine within the Black Sea region that changed into used as a safe haven for the duration of World War II and later as a education center for mine employees is predicted to be converted into a museum. The coal mining museum in Zonguldak province, so as to be opened subsequent year, may be the first within the country. Located in the province's Bastarla community, the coal mine first became operational in 1880, in the course of the overdue Ottoman era. It belongs to the Turkish Coal Institute. However, mining activities had been terminated in 1910 and it changed into used once more as a refuge at some stage in World War II.

After serving as a schooling middle for mine workers in 1963, it became opened to the general public in January 1997. As many as 13,000 nearby and foreign tourists have visited the coal mine in the past 10 years. Once the venture, carried out by means of the Zonguldak governor's workplace, is completed, Turkey's very first mining museum can be inaugurated. Located 50 meters underground and across a 800-meter-lengthy region, the museum is expected to draw greater vacationers through its show of gadget used for mining sports, permitting visitors to visualise the method in element. Zonguldak Governor Yavuz Erkmen stated this assignment turned into released to display, in its original location, how coal, the principle raw fabric produced in Zonguldak, was extracted and processed.