Ecomusée regional du Centre
Description:
Located in a mining center that remained practically intact after the cessation of mining activities in 1973, the ecomuseum tells the story of the region, centered on the production of minerals, through exhibitions located in a suggestive and extremely realistic environment. The site is very complex: built between 1835
and 1920 by the Carboniferous Company, founded in 1685 by the Spaniards, includes a productive part, with offices and various factories and, next to it, hospital, hospice, schools, shops and other buildings intended for the social life of the workers. Particularly suggestive is the spiral path that brings to life the typical day of a worker in the XNUMXs
Year of establishment: 1983
Guided tours: si
Educational services: Team of educational animators.
Documentation Center: documentation center on industrial development
Other services: Cafeteria, archive
Useful information (updated info on the website: Ecomusée Regional Du Center – Louvre Tarif (ecomusee-regional-du-centre.be))
Ecomusée regional du Centre
Rue Saint-Patrice, 2b
7110 Houdeng-Aimeries (La Louviere)
BELGIUM
Telephone : 064/28.20.00
Fax: 064 / 21.26.41
E-mail: info@ecomuseeboisduluc.be
OPENING
PERDIODO Closed on Mondays
From mid-April to the end of October
Weekdays: open from 9 to 17
Weekends and holidays: open from 10 to 18
From November to mid-April
Weekdays: open from 9 to 17, by reservation and only
for groups. Closed on weekends
Visiting hours
Weekdays: 9am, 10am, 11am, 13.30pm and 15pm Weekends and public holidays: 10am, 11am, 13.30pm, 15pm
e 16.30
PRICES
Entrance tickets include the rental of audio guides (available in French, Dutch, German and English) and/or the visit in French by an internal guide at the Ecomuseum. For a visit carried out in another language by a guide-entertainer outside the Ecomuseum, the price of the visit is increased by 22 euros per group.
The traditional visit includes: offices and workshops, the Saint-Emmanuel well and a worker's house. For school groups, it is also possible to organize a treasure hunt within the working-class city without changing the prices. Further telephone information from the teaching staff of the Ecomuseum…
In addition to the traditional visit, for school groups, it is also possible to visit a pile of slag in the company of the teaching staff of the Ecomuseum. The price is therefore 5 euros per student.
Individual adult
7,50 euros Seniors: 6,20 euros Children: 5 euros
Group
Adults: 6,20 euros Seniors: 5 euros Child/school: 3,50 euros
Urban community of the Center
Adults: 6,20 euros Child: 3,50 euros
Family package (2 adults + 1, 2 or 3 children): 13 euros
Children under 6: free Guide for school groups: free
Website: Ecomusée Regional Du Center – Louvre Tarif (ecomusee-regional-du-centre.be)
Other information:
T he Center region does not exist in the geographical sense of the term, but it has been
artificially created with the industrial revolution. Since the thirteenth century it has produced considerable quantities of coal, but it was only in the first half of the nineteenth century that mining activities redesigned the face of the landscape as large canalization works (today partly classified as a Unesco World Heritage Site) were built to the transport of coal
Text source: ecomuseum website and volume: Ecomuseums – European Guide by Mairizio Maggi (in collaboration with Ires and the Piedmont Region)
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