This issue of industrial heritage, the heart of the museum's project, is addressed in two ways.
First of all, with an interactive exhibition entitled Secrets de Fabriques, le patrimoine industriel s'expose ! which looks at the way "heritage" is created from several angles: how it is perceived, studied, expected to develop, here and elsewhere.
Then a second part targets the "territory" presenting work done by students on bachelor's and master's courses at the ENSASE architecture school in Saint-Étienne, which considers and examines the issues around the post-mining heritage, both built and non-built, in the face of the transitions of the Anthropocene.