Journey to the Quarry
Mining history in the AR museum
This AR museum brings a vanished chapter of Oberlausitz industrial history back to consciousness: granite mining, which shaped the region for generations. The mobile app transforms smartphones into time machines and resurrects historic mining processes. As an interactive miniature landscape, the quarry appears in your own space—blasting, breaking, transporting become playfully comprehensible. Industrial history goes mobile and accessible everywhere.
Users explore miners’ working world from new perspectives. The AR museum shows not just individual machines but the complete mining process: How were granite blocks blasted? Which tools came into use? How did workers transport ton-heavy loads? Historic workflows become visible, technical relationships tangible. The Oberlausitz region regains its industrial memory—digitally preserved and interactively experiential.
The AR app makes past mining techniques experiential in any environment and projects authentic granite mining scenes into users’ real surroundings. AR technology creates emotional proximity to industrial history: Visitors virtually experience miners’ daily life without needing to be on-site. History becomes not just told but experiential.
The application connects local history with modern knowledge transfer. It makes industrial processes understandable that have long vanished from collective memory and creates awareness for the region’s cultural development and identity. As a digital monument, the AR museum preserves historic knowledge for coming generations—while simultaneously making it accessible for everyone rediscovering regional mining history.





