I took my 8 y old daughter to join a kid and family guided tour (about 1 h). We went down to 45 meters deep into the mine. We had an excellence tour guide: Runne who keeps the kids fascinated all the way.It's been a breathtaking and unforgotten experience, no wonder Falun Gruva is listed in UNESCO World heritage. I'll would like to go back there, to pick the rest of experience - down to 67 meters and visit the museum (It's bit tough to visit museum with a young kid).Definitely recommend to visit Falu Gruva!
We always take any visitors to the mine and so far everyone, adults and kids alike, have really enjoyed it. Its a cool place and the guides are brilliant in telling stories from the mine.
I loved the tour of the Falun Copper mine.It was fascinating to learn how miners lived and worked in the 17th century.
When I was told by our Swedish host's that we were going to an old copper mine I was not quite sure what to expect. However, my early worries were soon blown away by the place. Apart from the gift shop, it is as if the place has been in a time warp. I soon had the camera out and was clicking away as it was a very fascinating place and well worth a visit.
Well worth a guided trip round the mine and to hear all the stories from centuries back. A museum and an antique shop with specialist things for historical house restoration added to our enjoyment.
We were a group visiting the mine and had booked us a tour inside the copper mine museum plus an short outdoor visit to the top of the landslide. Extremely well read and professional guides. The mine landslide guide was dressed as a miner from centuries back and the mine museum young lady extremely professional. It's well worth a visit and dont forget the attic of the museum where you can see hospital tools from ages back plus in Swedish written material about the Physics and medicinery from centuries back. Very interesting if you know Swedish =)
We visited jan 2015 with full snow. But as the tout goes down under the ground, it is just as interesting as in other seasons.Please note that the information on the website in English is not mirrorring the Swedish version of the website... e.g. tours are daily at 14.00h and the visitor who makes the reservation earliest decides what the language of the tour will be that day (Swedish or English). This came across a bit akward to us. It is time to provide audio tours in 2015!
Did you know that at one time, this mine was the largest work site in the World? Me neither, until I visited. If you have the chance to visit, then you definitely should. Even without entering the mine itself (we couldn't because we had a baby with us and you aren't allowed to carry a baby down the stairs into the mine) we still had a great time just wandering around the rim of the mine and reading about the history.
The copper mine was really interesting, we didn't get to go underground since we had just missed the English tour (by like an hour) and we didn't have jackets. but we walked around and visited the museum the story is really really interesting!
Tours in well spoken english are vey frequent during the day, check witch their reception. If you need to wait for your tour, the area outside and the museum (mainly in Swedish) are interesting.Tour down into the mine is very interesting. Takes about 1hour but well worth it. Claustrophobia does not come into action as you are taken into larger areas. Need to climb some steps but nothing problematic.Tourguide was very well informed with occasional well rehearsed joke, funny nonetheless.