2nd International Conference of Mining and Underground Museums Wieliczka-Zabrze 2023
"Mining Heritage = Human Heritage".
Date: 22-25 May 2023
Venues: Cracow Saltworks Museum in Wieliczka and Coal Mining Museum in Zabrze, Poland
Key dates
Up to 24.04.2023 - Submission of paper abstracts
Up to 28.04.2023 - E-mail information on acceptance or rejection of papers for presentation
Up to 07.05.2023 - Submission of poster projects for poster exhibition
Until 05.05.2023 - Registration of conference speakers
Until 18.05.2023 - Registration and payment of fees by participants (listeners and accompanying persons)
Up to 18.05.2023 - Uploading finished Power Point presentations to Dropbox
Until 30.09.2023 - Submission of full texts of papers for publication
Range of topics:
1. The importance of mining for the development of human civilisation, the need to protect and make accessible to tourism this varied heritage worldwide - an overview of the current situation in Poland, Europe and other continents.
2. Mining history associations around the world and their cooperation with mining museums and tourist mines - together or separately?
3 Mines on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
4. Financing, organisation and legal basis of tourist mines.
5. Research, documentation standards and working methodologies for the preservation of mining heritage, with particular emphasis on digitisation.
6. Preservation and conservation protection of mine workings with a view to making them accessible to tourists.
7 Measures for the preservation of mining technological processes with a view to their presentation - examples of implementation.
8. Research of industrial archaeology in mines and creation of exhibitions from acquired artefacts.
9. Narration in mines - how to build an attractive, authentic and technical story about the place for the tourist?
10. Mass tourism in mines - its challenges and limitations.
11. New functions of mines (culture and leisure, sport and recreation, science and research projects, therapeutics)
12 Shaping the mine environment and protecting the industrial mining landscape.