Ecomuseo delle Miniere e della Val Germanasca
Ecomuseo delle Miniere e della Val Germanasca
Ecomuseo delle Miniere e della Val Germanasca
4.5
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Monday
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday
Closed
Wednesday
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Sunday
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
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Manuela M
11 contributions
Jul 2024 • Family
We spent 2 very interesting hours, well organized visit and the girl explaining was very prepared and never boring, even for 2 boys aged 10 and 15 who were fascinated and intrigued. You just have to dress well because it is very cold, given the very high humidity. Da consigliare!
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Written July 11, 2024
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Tom Tof
23 contributions
Aug 2023 • Friends
Incredible visit inside a talc mine that has been operational since the early 1900s and closed about 30 years ago. The mine is worth it, the places are suggestive and well kept.
The themes need to be improved, which is why I give it a 4: the guide has a script to follow which was obviously decided beforehand and follows it well, but I think it's all a bit banal. It is not a visit for children and I don't understand why it should be simplified. Very little is said about man and life in the mines, just as little is said about the geological and technical part, only summary information is given on core drilling, use of tools (again in a rather banal manner) and very little else.
I recommend revisiting the contents to make it more suitable for a visit for adults or creating different itineraries in case someone has children and wants a more "simple" visit.
However, it remains a recommended destination and worth spending two hours in.
The themes need to be improved, which is why I give it a 4: the guide has a script to follow which was obviously decided beforehand and follows it well, but I think it's all a bit banal. It is not a visit for children and I don't understand why it should be simplified. Very little is said about man and life in the mines, just as little is said about the geological and technical part, only summary information is given on core drilling, use of tools (again in a rather banal manner) and very little else.
I recommend revisiting the contents to make it more suitable for a visit for adults or creating different itineraries in case someone has children and wants a more "simple" visit.
However, it remains a recommended destination and worth spending two hours in.

Written August 12, 2023
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Jenny
Turin, Italy36 contributions
Oct 2023 • Family
A few days ago, on the occasion of the open day for the 25 years of opening to the public, I took part in the guided tour of the Paola mine. The guide, very young but very knowledgeable, let us spend a couple of hours (which literally flew by) describing the life of the miners and everything that revolved around it in an engaging and suitable way for everyone. Before or after the visit, don't miss the small museum full of period material, videos and stories.
An unmissable experience!
An unmissable experience!

Written October 25, 2023
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Sergio
La Morra, Italy112 contributions
Aug 2023 • Friends
The visit to the mine, to any mine, is a step in the history of sacrifice and of the society of the past. It is an educational journey for everyone, adults who have no culture of history and the evolution of society but above all for young people who live today in a fairy-tale and papier-mâché world of which they are unaware and which is passed on to them by the sacrifice of grandparents and fathers who were forced to support their families with one of the hardest and most debilitating jobs in the world....VISIT TO UNDERSTAND!!

Written August 16, 2023
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Anna P
5 contributions
Sep 2023 • Couples
A disused section of a still active mine. You enter an underground world and imagine how hard the life of miners of the last century could have been. I recommend the visit to children/teenagers. The visit takes place partly on foot and partly on a train with open carriages

Written September 28, 2023
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Made-In-Mars
Marseille, France129 contributions
Aug 2017 • Family
Very good place to visit! For all the people who like the atmosphere of 'the underground'. We were 7 and most of us enjoyed. Of course it is cold down there but the guide explained how people worked there.
But be careful! The visit is JUST in Italian! My friend who doesn't speak Italian was quickly bored. And it is closed on Tuesday!
But be careful! The visit is JUST in Italian! My friend who doesn't speak Italian was quickly bored. And it is closed on Tuesday!
Written September 8, 2017
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Brun066
Florence, Italy13,943 contributions
Oct 2016 • Couples
I had heard for a long time about the talc mine Museum in Val Germanasca, and I has long wanted to visit. The opportunity came recently: in my journey of a long weekend in the western Piedmont, the mine was therefore a not-to-miss.
My expectations were not disappointed. The tour lasts two hours, so your money is well spent (the regular ticket costs 12 euro). Also the staff is thorough in his explanations, and eventually at the end of your visit you will find you've learned a lot about a business - the talc mining - that perhaps you had not heard before (also because these mines are not very common: we learned that in a large country like Italy there are only three talc mines).
Above all, the visit is impressive. The mining train that carries passengers runs for 1 km into the mountain; also you need to walk up for about one hundred meters from the entrance to get to the train; and when finally you drop it, you walk through a striking circular path in the most remote galleries.
Among the most moving moments: the passage above the deepest vertical shaft, where went up and down the elevator which was used to move the carts filled with ore from one level to another one; the simulation of the explosion caused to advance the excavation face; the train journey that lasts 8 minutes, and that seems to take you away forever from the outside world.
It's important to note that - according to what I was told - guided tours in English can also take place; but you have to ask for them as a group, and to book well in advance.
Over the years, I have visited a number of museums adapted in the former mine tunnels; but I will remember this as the most impressive, perhaps together with that of the Llechwedd slate mines in Wales.
My expectations were not disappointed. The tour lasts two hours, so your money is well spent (the regular ticket costs 12 euro). Also the staff is thorough in his explanations, and eventually at the end of your visit you will find you've learned a lot about a business - the talc mining - that perhaps you had not heard before (also because these mines are not very common: we learned that in a large country like Italy there are only three talc mines).
Above all, the visit is impressive. The mining train that carries passengers runs for 1 km into the mountain; also you need to walk up for about one hundred meters from the entrance to get to the train; and when finally you drop it, you walk through a striking circular path in the most remote galleries.
Among the most moving moments: the passage above the deepest vertical shaft, where went up and down the elevator which was used to move the carts filled with ore from one level to another one; the simulation of the explosion caused to advance the excavation face; the train journey that lasts 8 minutes, and that seems to take you away forever from the outside world.
It's important to note that - according to what I was told - guided tours in English can also take place; but you have to ask for them as a group, and to book well in advance.
Over the years, I have visited a number of museums adapted in the former mine tunnels; but I will remember this as the most impressive, perhaps together with that of the Llechwedd slate mines in Wales.
Written October 5, 2016
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57heaven
Vinci,Tuscany58 contributions
Jun 2015
On a VERY hot day, we were happy to visit this mine in Prali, which for almost 200 years until it closed in the 1990's mined talc,which apart from its use in the cometics industry is used in a large number of other industries too.Our very informative guide took us on a miners train 2km inside the mouintain and explained all about the equipment, the work and the lives of the miners.There is an English speaking guide available for this trip and group size is for a minimum of 8 persons.You are also asked to bring with you a pullover and wind jacket, which were a most definite requirement.
Written July 15, 2015
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zubuz
Zagreb, Croatia38 contributions
Sep 2014 • Business
Very nice example of geoheritage and industrial heritage site. You will see many things - from geology, to everyday miners life. There is a nice visitors center and souvenir shop. In visitors center you can see very interesting movie about the mine before the modern mining in the form of an interview with old miners. Inside the mine you will ride a miners train as a time travel through Earth history. Unfortunately the comments from the speakers were in Italian only. There are nice presentation from the field of geology and mining so you can see many types of rock, minerals and structures typical for this part of the Alps. Whole project is leaded by the young staff doing their job very good.
Written September 14, 2014
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Elin B
3 contributions
Aug 2022 • Family
This was a great day out for my family. For the adults it was really interesting with lots of historical information provided but my 4 year son also loved the whole experience!
Written August 29, 2022
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E' abbastanza bassa (tipo 15°) e c'è molta umidità. Bisogna andare ben coperti
Written July 22, 2022
Per visitare scoprialpi si può scendere in pantaloncino corto ,felpa e giacca a vento o è consigliato con pantaloni lunghi?
Written August 18, 2021
Buongiorno, dipende dal Suo grado di sopportazione del freddo.... io sono sceso con pantaloncini.
Written August 24, 2021
la miniera si trova a 5km. da località paola/prali?sul navigatore cosa scrivo ?
Written August 14, 2017
EcomuseoMiniere
Prali, Italy
Su google maps digitate: Ecomuseo delle Miniere e della Val Germanasca. In caso di altro tipo di navigatore, imposti la località di Prali (TO) e 5 km prima dell'arrivo alla meta finale si troverà esattamente nella nostra zona.
Written August 16, 2017
EcomuseoMiniere
Prali, Italy
Confermo esattamente quanto indicato da Calimbera. Aggiungo che, a livello di calzature, per il tour ScopriMiniera sono sufficienti scarpe sportive, mentre per ScopriAlpi occorrono scarponcini da trekking (anche bassi, simil scarpa da ginnastica).
Cordiali saluti, la Direzione.
Written May 9, 2016
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