The Aliveri lignite mine is located 4 kilometers north of the city, near the village of Agios Loukas. The lignite mine had two mining fields: at the Brinia site, where mining took place underground, and at the Marmarenia site, where surface mining took place. Lignite mining began in the 1870s and ended definitively in the early 1980s.
Today, in the old Mine and AIS Aliveri there is a Museum, which captures the entire history of the city, which is identified with the mining of lignite. The Museum is a journey into the past, older and more recent, not only of Aliveri but also of the energy and industrial development of Greece.
Among the many exhibits are tools and machinery used in mining, various items of equipment (such as the cage where the canaries were kept and the oxygen devices), but also an important photographic archive that revives the work of the loggers, the transmission lines, as well as the different operating phases of the Mine. The photographic archive is truly impressive and a true depiction of an entire era. The administrative archival material of the Mine is also of inestimable value. From the exhibition, the old posters with safety instructions, the equipment of the clinics and also the pieces of lignite rocks still stand out.
Visiting the Lignite Museum in Aliveri, which is one of the few museums of industrial archeology in Greece, is a real experience, so don't miss the opportunity to get to know an important page of the modern history of the place.
