BYTÍZ Mine

The Příbram Mining Museum is one of the largest mining museums in the Czech Republic and Europe. It manages more than 50 buildings, offers more than 70 exhibitions and several kilometres of historical underground of local mines.

The newest of these is the Bytíz Uranium Mine in the area of the former shaft No. 11 A from 1955, where, in addition to the mining tower, there is a machine room, a turbocompressor room, an electrical substation, the remains of a cooling tower and valuable technical equipment, the only one preserved in the Czech Republic.

Since the end of 2017, with the support of the Central Bohemian Region, the museum has been trying to save and transform this unique industrial complex of international importance, whose buildings were in a very poor state, into a visitor complex. Expositions in the style of the so-called "last working day" will be created here, supplemented by interactive and multimedia elements.

The Bytíz Uranium Mine, situated 5 km east of Příbram, the third deepest in the Czech Republic (1 504 m), will bring visitors closer to the fact that the Příbram uranium deposit, with 36% of the national volume of uranium production, has become part of the history of Czechoslovak and international mining and has made the Czech Republic one of the main uranium miners in the world. The site is also a cautionary memento for future generations, as it commemorates the abuse of the work of political prisoners under the communist regime of the 1950s.