Museum des Gueules Rouges

Well worth the visit

A modern museum showing the rise and fall of the local bauxite mining industry in the 20th century. Try and time your visit with the guided tour, they put it all into context. Thank you Claire.

Very impressive bauxite mining museum in the Var departement

We have visited this very well documented museum with detailed information and exposition material , its applications and the history origin and discovery of bauxite ( aluminium) mining in the Var are...

A museum well worth visiting

This is a very interesting and educational museum with lots of information and displays to illustrate how bauxite was mined and how it was used to produce aluminium. The trip through the mine with dis...

Feedback from a Belgian family

A very educative visit with lots of audio visual material (the real tools, machines,...) that allowed us to entrench ourselves in how the miners worked and lived underground in a not so distant past.

WELL-STAGED MUSEUM + LOTS OF FASCINATING ANECDOTES

A surprising and very didactical visit (in French - no idea if they do guided visits in English). Authentic set-up to the point that it's hard to believe that you're not actually 100 metres undergroun...