- Mining Museum:
- The Museum of Brassac-les-Mines Mine, located in Bayard, was elevated to the glory of the generations of workers who have worked with strength and courage in the bowels of the earth. It was conducted with the help of HBCM, the Regional Council, the General Council of the Municipality, but also thanks to many local donors.
- The Mining Museum has its peculiarity and originality in its galleries. No less than 160 meters of galleries reconstituted identically reproduce representative scenes of daily work, and so trace the real conditions of life of the miners.
- The Mining Museum is housed in the building of the old machinery of exploitation. It was there that produced and processed energy for coal mining. This is also where was the important machine that was operating downhill and back of the cage.
- In this museum, just look, feel, and little by little, the scenes of daily life of the miners unfold before your eyes. Since opening in 1990, the Mining Museum pays tribute to this hard job and recounts the epic of coal mining in the Brassac-les-Mines basin. After more than five centuries of flourishing industrial activity, the last coal bucket is well outlet 28 July 1978. Since then, all the buildings have been preserved and now houses the old machinery Mining Museum.
- Opening hours: from July to August from Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 12.30pm and from 14h to 18h30 and by appointment throughout the year for groups from 10 persons (phone +33 4 73 54 30 88).
- Museum Peynet:
- A Brassac-les-Mines, cherishes the memory of Raymond Peynet, creator of the famous "Lovers" eponyms. In 1942, in the mining town that son of bougnats had refined its immortal characters sketched in Valencia for the first time.
- In the heart of Brassac-les-Mines, the Peynet museum is open to the public since 1998. The relationship between the designer and the mining town is simple. By her mother Isabelle Bard, born and buried Brassac-les-Mines, Raymond Peynet, although born in 1908 in Paris - where his parents were bougnats - is a child of the country. In his early youth, he discovered Brassac-les-Mines during the school holidays. During the war after being captured and escaping, he will take refuge with his wife and daughter. It was at that time, in 1942, that Raymond Peynet designs its immortal love. While in Valencia, in the Drôme, where he has an appointment with a war correspondent, he finds himself sitting on a bench facing a bandstand. There he sketched his two characters: a little violinist with long hair playing for enamored admirer (the kiosk will be classified a historical monument in 1982). Max Favalelli, to whom he sends them, baptize them immediately "Lovers of Peynet", and publishes the periodical Ric and Rac. From then until his death (in 1999 at the age of 90 years), the fate of Raymond Peynet will be linked to that of her lovers, whose "mouths Classified although sympathetic" to inspire her lover Georges Brassens public benches. Subject of a relentless pursuit of thousands of collectors, the little couple is famous around the world. Japan has two Peynet museums (Karuizawa and Sakutocho), while in Hiroshima, the statue Lovers faces the memorial of the Atomic Bomb.
- Free visits, the Peynet museum has a collection of 200 m² of posters on the theme of love that inspired the film, advertising and various events. They are found as dolls or painted on porcelain, or engraved on medals... Upstairs, thirty lithographs stages them in the famous kiosk of Valence, in gardens or interiors apartment, pressed against each other, often surrounded by birds symbols of peace and liberty, or little angels. Paintings in naive style evoke a beginner love, lived unvarnished and easily. Other showcases display books, sketchbooks and photographs Peynet with his artist friends, such Elsa Triolet, Aragon or Sacha Guitry. On one of the photos, the lovers are none other than Raymond and his wife Denise, born Damour: a name predestined, since it will cease to be a muse for the artist.
- Traces of Raymond Peynet, we found several in the city: in the hall of vocational school François Rabelais, a fresco represents a tree and "pupils birds" resting on its branches; at the People's House, part of the fresco entitled Parcels still leaves see women preparing packages for men sent to the front. And in a square in the town, called "Place Raymond Peynet", stands a bandstand, a replica of Valencia kiosk.
- Opening hours: in July and August from Tuesday to Sunday from 14h to 18h30 and by appointment for groups (from 10 people to +33 4 73 54 30 88).
- Mini-golf near the camp site Brassac.
- Swimming pool (pleasure pool).
