Le Mineur, ce héros

Transformer nos mineurs de fond en super héros ! Voilà le pari fou de cette exposition ! Partie de rien, au hasard d’une discussion. Les photos et les souvenirs se sont vite enchaînés, tantôt tristes, tantôt gais, tantôt en demi-teintes! Et les discussions autour de nous se sont vite emballées

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lampe Giant miners’ lamps installation

from 25 June to 11 September Artists for life or graffiti writers for the day have taken up their brushes and sprays to customise a miner’s lamp. A series of over 40 coloured lamps, 1.50m high, will be exhibited on the mine square. This event is being organised in partnership

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Photo exhibition “Memory Wood. Marcinelle beyond the tragedy”

From August 8 to September 25   For the first time, the granddaughters of one of the victims from Manoppello tell the story of their family through powerfully evocative pictures and words.             Texts: Enrica Buccione. Photographs: Massimiliano Pelagatti. Book ‘La nostra Marcinelle. Voci al

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“Backlit” Exhibition

18 June to 18 September Myriam Louyest’s glass installation will evoke light and life contrasted with darkness and death. www.myriamlouyest.be By the Musée du Verre (Glass Museum).

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Miner in the world today

BOIS DU CAZIER 1956-2016 Is the mine of the 21st century really any different from that of 60 years ago when, on 8 August 1956, it was both the scene and the leading character in the biggest disaster ever to hit the Belgian coalmining industry? The themes covered will be

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Mineworkers and scientists

Science is not done by the scholars. Between production and interpretation, theory and practice, exchanges are constant. The coal mining was a structuring activity and had many economic and social consequences. But our miners also helped change science and even our worldview. We propose to discover in this entertaining and

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