Guided tour of the Cap Garonne mine museum – Guided tour of the Coeur de Mine trail + temporary exhibition 2024 “The Mediterranean, pirates’ garden”.

Description

Discover the mine: the magical place where the heart of the earth beats. Feel life underground. Discover the history of miners and mineralogy. Collection of 600 minerals from around the world, 140 micro-minerals, including 14 discovered at Cap Garonne.

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*) Guided tour Parcours Cœur de Mine + temporary exhibition 2024 "La méditerranée jardin des pirates".
Purchase your guided tour in advance from Le Pradet Tourist Office.

*) Self-guided "discovery tours" are also available between guided tours (signs are posted along the tour route).

Every island, real or imaginary, appears to be full of terrifying and marvellous legends, the repository of a treasure carefully hidden in its bowels or at the bottom of a cave with a concealed entrance.
Cap Garonne behind the pointe du bau rouge resembles this island with its treasure.
A treasure made up of fragments containing gold hidden at the bottom of a gallery in a wild part of the coastline...
Fable, myth, legend or reality? the historical research carried out by the Musée de la Mine will attempt to answer these questions.... Welcome to the exhibition "L'héritage du Potier, le Trésor de Cap Garonne".



-Helmets must be worn (charlotte provided).
-Indoor temperature: approx. 15°C, so please wrap up warm.
-Museum accessible to disabled visitors.
- In the event of very severe and extreme fire risk (risk map in red), the Museum is automatically closed (information updated around 7pm for the following day on: www.var.gouv.fr

- New: The shuttle bus! Make your way to one of the three available stops in Le Pradet, Espace des Arts, Office du tourisme, Plage de la Garonne, and let an eco-friendly shuttle take you to the entrance of the Museum. 04 94 08 32 46 for reservations.

Enjoy your discovery and cultural visit, and then our shuttle will take you back to the starting point...

And it's all free with a simple reservation with our driver...

Put on your helmet and enter the bowels of the earth, in the galleries of the old copper mines,
The originality of the museum is undoubtedly the lively nature of its visit, where you can experience life underground as the miners of yesteryear knew it,
The museum's greatest asset is its collection of over 600 minerals from around the world and 140 micro-minerals, including 14 discovered at Cap Garonne,
But also the extraction of copper ore and its transformation, the museum lets you discover how man has used copper over time with an exhibition of objects.
The Museum also boasts a remarkable setting, with a panoramic view of the Toulon harbor, the flower-filled terraces of Carqueiranne, its hiking and discovery trails and its proximity to the sea.
Self-guided tours" ticket office at the Musée de la Mine
Amusez vous" reduced-rate ticket office, Le Pradet Tourist Office