Michal mine — Attraction in okres Ostrava-město

Interesting place to visit and learn more about the history of the mine and Ostrava. To gain access to the buildings and see more you have to do a guided tour.

Unfortunately the guide was in the Czech language, which takes a bit away from the experience. The audio guide provides the same base info but I feel like the guide gives way more background info. It also feels like you're spending a long time per room, even though the audio tour in English sometimes only gives a few sentences of info. Hopefully in the future the country can slowly integrate a bit more of the English language to make it engaging for visitors from more countries.

Nevertheless I was impressed by the scale of the complex and all the things to see. In the end they even fired up an old steam engine.

If you want to go into a mine, that's not possible at this location, but then you should visit the...

Great place to visit. Touring only in Czech language (they have tourist guides in the form of a few printed A4 pages with descriptions in other languages, f.e. Polish, English). Despite that, the tour guide was the nicest guy I've ever met. He tried to pass us all the information about the mine and be as close to my language (Polish) as possible so the tour was in mixed Chech-Silesian-Polish language.

In the mine you'll see everything that's above the ground. Places where miners were starting work, changing clothes, offices, machine rooms, etc. There's no going underground. The tour is so interesting and has so many things to show that 1,5 hours of trip is too short. Tickets are sold 15 mins before the trip starts but in the meantime you can eat and drink some beer in mine's restaurant. Also the toilets...

Cool place to learn something about the history of Ostrava and mining. Unfortunately the tour guide only spoke Czech. We did get an English audio tour and a document that seemed google-translated. But the English information was far less than the information the tourguide was telling. The whole tour took about 2 hours, but the audio tour maybe only one hour. So a lot of the time you're just standing around waiting for the tour guide to be done because you can't understand the language.

So wouldn't recommend the tour, but the buildings and mining equipment are really...