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OK, so there is nothing in English here, but it only costs ten crowns to get in as the little barn museum is run by the local heritage society. This means that the person working will know a bit about the museum anyway and can tell you. Moreover, there are plenty of pictures to get your imagination working when it comes to what it must have been like to work the mines. Something which of course involved the whole family. A man could advance from a child labourer in his mid teens to become an expert at dynamite in his late 20s, and the women often ruined their hands on hacking out remaining bits of iron. Still, after work they had to cook for the husband and many children...