Ruhr Museum

Objects in the areas of geology, mineralogy and palaeontology, frequently used to document the structure of various deposits

Manriding, movement of people on foot while underground, using passenger trains, overhead monorails, floor conveyors, band conveyors or chairlifts. (following: Das kleine Bergbaulexikon [The small mining glossary], 1998)

Transportation encompasses all installations, systems and measures employed in the movement of mineral raw materials, the worthless debris, materials and individuals, and in powering such facilities. (following: Das kleine Bergbaulexikon [The small mining glossary], 1998)

Miner’s lamps, a collective term used in mining for all lighting equipment used underground. (following: Das kleine Bergbaulexikon, [The small mining glossary], 1998)

Meaning a miner's personal effects for use underground, and which do not directly serve as work tools. These might be the miner's lunch box or snuff pouch.

Image, film and audio material particularly containing historical images of collieries and audio-visual documentation of underground mining work.

Extraction, loosening of coal and other deposit content from the hard rock with the aid of the extraction procedure. (following: Das kleine Bergbaulexikon [The small mining glossary], 1998)

Tools used in mining work. In German-speaking countries, the miner's toolset is known as a "Gezähe". (following: Das kleine Bergbaulexikon [The small mining glossary], 1998)

Facilities enabling communications to be relayed from aboveground to underground, and enabling people underground to communicate with one another

Uniforms worn by mining officials and miners on festive and formal occasions.

Objects with a close connection to mining customs, miners’ associations as well as personal mementos

Sinking, constructing a mine opening such as a shaft, blind shaft, borehole or bunker using various techniques such as blasting or drilling large boreholes. (following: Das kleine Bergbaulexikon [The small mining glossary], 1998)

Machines and accessories for making cylindrical cavities in the rock, for prospecting, extraction, alignment or lining work, or for preparing blasting work.

Art pieces usually made in series, and defined by a more or less clear utility value

This object group encompasses mining-related map materials, including maps showing colliery sites or graphical representations based on surveys performed above and below ground, known as Grubenrisse [mine layouts].

Alongside sculptures, the range of mining-related artworks particularly includes paintings, especially portraits and depictions of mines. A significant portion of these are naïve paintings created by amateur artists, frequently former miners who use this medium to describe their day-to-day work and leisure time.

As lifelike, scaled-down replicas, models are used to explain the functional methods of technical plant and machinery.

Diorama, a plastic, painted rendering usually assembled within a display case and used as a teaching aid. (following: dtv-Brockhaus-Lexikon, 1986)

Equipment for accidents and incidents, particularly firefighting appliances and mine rescue equipment.

The term for the geodetic survey of the mining claim performed by mining surveyors

Markscheide is the word for the lateral boundary line of a mining claim, and which is determined by a line to the earth’s surface, and which continues as an imaginary plane to the centre-point of the earth. (following: Das kleine Bergbaulexikon [The small mining glossary], 1998)

Mechanical installations and accessories (such as pipelines), which served to keep the mine dry, to collect water ingressing into the mine, and, if required to purify it and pump it away.