Zabrze

Municipal museum and art gallery with exhibitions of local history and culture.

This displays the history of coal mining locally, but to get the real experience you should visit the other branches at Guido Mine and Queen Louisa Adit, where you tour underground. However for those you need to be reasonably mobile, and the minimum age is six.

at 3 Maja 18 is a confident redbrick neo-gothic building of 1900.

46 m high, 100-year old red brick water tower, renovated in 2022. At the top you can find a restaurant, an exhibition on coal, and a viewing point.

Large display of tanks, guns and other military gear, most of it in working order. Wear stout shoes as the outdoor areas are quaggy after rainfall.

Part of the Coal Mining Museum, reservations essential. There was lots of coal down here but the strata are riven by faults, so it took three attempts from 1856 to reach a profitable seam at 170 m depth. When that was exhausted they drilled down to 320 m, and the main part of the museum is down here, with demonstrations of machinery and mining daily life - and death. English tours may be available. After the lower seam was finished Guido acted as a sump, draining other nearby mines, and was also a test bed for mining machinery. It became a museum in 2007.

Part of the Coal Mining Museum. An adit is a horizontal tunnel giving access to the mine workings, or connecting the parts of a mine. It can also mean a tunnel that follows a seam horizontally, but that's more correctly a "drift mine". You explore this one by underground boat.

it is at Franklina Roosevelta 102 is a redbrick building of 1930-33 with a striking facade, like a Roman aqueduct.