Introduction of mining museum park for educational and tourism purposes

These mines can be considered as industrial mining and cultural heritage, Scince all the mines had roads and streets, water and electricity and residential buildings with a small cost of reconstruction and preserving the architecture, they can change their use as mining museum park. In this new environment,the technical workers working in the mine are again employed as tour leader. An new economic conditions provent the migration of indigeneos peoples. The research methods in this study is descriptive and analytical and refers to similar studies worwide. The results show that so far a large number of abandoned mines in the word have been turned into mining museum park. These parks have become a place of natural science education, especially environment issue for different classes of people, by meetings the needs of tourists. In Iran ,in the 2010yeat, the issue of establishing mining museum park was arised. So far, Kanijkola coal mine, Khorbiabanak potash mine and Angoran lead zinc mine have been turned into mining museum park or feasibility study on them are over. In this article, the charecteristics of mining museum park of Iran are introduced and described for the first time.