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Oranje-Nassaupark (CBS-weg Heerlen, ingang t.o. CBS)
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On the former site of the Oranje Nassau I mine (once the beating heart of Heerlen’s mining past) an open-air exhibition with monumental XXL billboards is now on display, scattered across the terrain.

You can walk around freely and use a QR code to listen to an audio tour that reveals the stories behind the lost heritage. The exhibition has been curated by Maurice Hermans and includes images by Jan Wismans, one of the demolition supervisors at the Oranje Nassau mines. 

Between April 1975 and August 1978, Wismans took weekly photographs of the demolition work. Part of the exhibition is the mirror with the Bosnian city of Zenica, with images by photographer Mladen Pikulić. The last mine there will close at the end of 2024, exactly fifty years after Heerlen. Zenica is where Heerlen once was: on the threshold of a major change.

Dates

  • 10/16/2025 t/m 12/31/2025

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