Chrustenická shaft is an exposition of mining technology. The mine was one of the largest and most important mines in Barrandien (west of Prague) in its time. It had 84 underground floors extending to a depth of 426 m, i.e. 120 m below sea level. During a hundred years of hard work, it produced nearly 8 million tonnes of ore.
There's roughly 600 metres of accessible corridors of the former 8th floor of the mine with nearly a kilometre of tracks with a mining gauge of 450 mm and several hundred exhibits, from the smallest type of thresher and handcuffsas a miner's emblem, to very large collections of drills and drills, electric, carbide and petrol mine lamps, signalling devices, and a number of photographs from the operation of the local mine, mechanisation aids and equipment.
A separate chapter is fleet, including mining locomotives of various traction, a large number of freight wagons (hunts) from various periods for transporting extracted material, cars for passenger transport and other vehicles for special activities in the mine. The exposition will introduce the layman to the actual methods of mining and transporting ores, from primitive manual to modern mechanized ones.
