Adventure worlds Grubenfeld

The Museum Erlebniswelten "Grubenfeld" in Mayen focuses on the history of basalt mining since the Neolithic Age . It is located with an associated information center on the edge of the Mayen mining field and is one of a total of six museum facilities in the volcano park . Due to legal disputes with the name of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region , the museum had to change its name from Terra Vulcania to Erlebniswelten Grubenfeld at the beginning of 2019 .

Exhibition areas

Information center

Large pictures, exhibits and media give an overview of all Vulkanpark stations in the information area.

exhibition

Mayener Grubenfeld - Adventure Worlds Grubenfeld (8)

The exhibition runs over two interconnected floors and deals with the history of stone mining over the past 7,000 years. Dismantling and transport methods from different epochs are explained, which can be tried out by the visitor using interactive stations. The manufacture of the products in individual production steps, the product range of rubbing stones , millstones and building blocks as well as trade and economic relations are presented. The social framework, the living and working conditions of the workers in the quarry and their families are also topics of the exhibition. The course of the working day, the payment and organizations of workers in guilds and brotherhoods are discussed.

Another area of ​​the exhibition deals with the flora and fauna that settled in the old quarries.

A cinema, which can be seen from both exhibition levels, shows the film “SteinZeiten”, a mixture of flip books, cartoons, realistic recordings and computer animations. The film shows how humans made use of the volcanic deposits and changed the landscape again and again through stone mining.

Directly adjacent to the exhibition is the access to the Mayener Grubenfeld nature reserve, a landscape monument in the volcanic park. The volcanic and mining landscape conveyed in the exhibition with various mining methods can be viewed here.

Trivia

The Grubenfeld Adventure Worlds are one of three municipal museums in Mayen. The city is also home to the Eifel Museum and the German Slate Mine. As a family museum in the volcano park, the Grubenfeld Adventure Worlds attract almost 10,000 visitors every year.

literature

• Angelika Hunold : The legacy of the volcano. A journey into the history of the earth and technology between the Eifel and the Rhine. Schnell + Steiner and publishing house of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum , Regensburg / Mainz 2011, ISBN 978-3-7954-2439-8

Web links

• Vulkanpark (official website), on vulkanpark.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Terra Vulcania needs a new name
2. ↑ After a warning: Terra Vulcania is now history

Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 58.9 ″  N , 7 ° 14 ′ 16.4 ″  E