Couriot - Musée de la Mine
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Museum in Saint-Étienne, France
The Saint-Étienne Mine Museum is a French museum founded in 1991 in the city of Saint-Étienne in the French department of the Loire situated in the Rhône-Alpes region. It presents the facilities of a former coalmine. The site is registered as a historical monument since 2011.
Address: 3 Boul. Maréchal Franchet d'Esperey, 42000 Saint-Étienne, France
Hours: Open ⋅ Closes 6 PM
Phone: +33 4 77 43 83 23
The mine museum opened in 1907 and was the first mining museum in France. A vein of coal was uncovered in 1741 which went on to be mined from 1741 to 1880 ...