Bois du Cazier — Attraction in Charleroi

A truly unforgettable experience. The exhibition is intelligently plotted, not by piling up eye-openers, but by revealing the meaning carried by the place. I was surprised by the fact that even a humble-looking iron gate or yellow stairs can be so emotionally evoking. I really like the miner family's Nissen huts, God bless those women who turned prisoner's camp into lovely homes. The video presentation of the industrial museum is great (an English version is available, please turn to the staff.). The audio guide is informative but could be more concise and slower if I am not being too nitpicking. My mother tongue is not English nor French, I find it hard to follow sometimes. I also have a question, what is the name of the ending song of the video played in the memorial hall (sounded Italian to me). This song, with those victims faces flashing by on the screen, made me unable to hold back tears. The song is haunting me,...

We saw people walking around with audio guides towards the end. we were not told this at the entrance. The proposed tour starts with an industrial museum and then a glass museum. This is all well and good, but I suspect that most people who visit a mining site come for the mining part, which comes at the end of that tour and when I got tired of reading the non-mining stuff. Moreover, the part about the mines is very sparsely developed. The video about the mining disaster, for example, was still reasonable, but it's in a corner behind a wall, where you could miss it! There should be much more focus and attention for this, so the 'logistics' on the site can be made much better in an easy way. For a Unesco world heritage site, this should actually be...

Excellent! Excellent! the parking lot was full so we parked in a nearby street, the entrance fee is valuable, kind staff speaks English, toilets are for free, the area is quite large, we walked independently with an electronic guide, many exhibits are related to mines and coal, machines, industry, electricity, short the film shows the history of the mine and industry and the minning accident, everywhere was clean, the spaces for visitors are outside and inside, you can spend about 2-3 hours there, interesting even for children, there is a cafe and a restaurant, I highly...