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.