The idea of a mine-complex was born already in the times of FDSNC, in the beginning of the 20th century, but became real only in 1980 with the collaboration of Coal Mines of Mecsek, Mecsek Ore-mining Company and Mining Shafting Company. A 400 m long and 1050 m2 ground-square underground exhibition was made with the reconstruction and furnishment of a formar wine-cellar system in down-town of Pécs, on the corner of Káptalan and Janus Pannonius Street.

This "mine" (mine model, scale 1:1) is accessible from the centre of the town, from the court of Vasarelly Museum. The exhibition shows the faces of shafting, the tools, devices and machines of mineral charcoal and uranium mining. In addition to this the exhibition provides geological information about the mining products and demonstrates minerals and specimen rocks.

The exhibition begins with the underground map of Hungary and Mecsek, charts about the geological age and rock-taxonomy classifications of stratums, and the map of Barany County's mineral deposits. The "mine" level represents the minerals of Hungary through Hungarian rock specimens and the coal and mineral deposits of Southeast Dunántúl. Visitors can admire the different Hungarian rocks in cabinets ordered by rock-taxonomy. Also on this level are exhibited the old tools of mining: heartblade, hand-operated coal-auger, hand-operated ventilating, pickaxe, compressed-air pick-hammer.

Visitors arrive to the "exploitation stage of the mine" through a sloping drawing-road passing by the instruments of transportation. At first visitors see the mining instruments of shafting, pneumatic rock grabber and loader, bucket (for product and people transit), then the Craelius drilling-machine on face, later the sectional view of a brickset mine-shaft and a steen with strickle.

The devices of mining are in the left hand side tunnel: the plane secured with quadratic sectioned crib, the trapeze sectioned tunnel branching, the head of tunnel and heading, Százvári sort of ground-breaking of a wood-secured partition by tip-waggon, the wood-secured underhand stope-mining with metal coal-shoot, mining secured by hydraulic metal posts, mining secured by self-propelled frame. In the tunnel by the emergency exit side are exhibited the tram-road rake with loading device, 800 l large water-trolley, with mine-waggon with capacity of 2,3 m3, with carriage for people's transit, and with explosion-proof diesel locomotive for mining.

The instruments of uranium-mining are sorted by the characteristic face setting in the exit tunnels: the drilling-explosion technology based mining with drilling-wagon, subdivision ground -breaking secured by metal posts, tunnel-driving with spoon-auger secured by screwed netting. The sight-worthies end with an accumulator locomotive for mining and a concrete-scattering machine.

The technical and the history of technology material of the "downtown mine" is an exticiting gleam among the characteristicly humanistic museums of the town. After walking through the "mine" the visitors arrive to suface with a "real mine-experiment". The visitors can get additional experience by visiting the Exhibition of Mining History (Pécs, József Attila Street, Nr. 5) and the Exhibition of Uranium-Mining (Kővágószőlős, Rákóczi Street, Nr. 54.) of Mecsek Mining Museum.