The permanent exhibition is divided into two spaces. The first is a presentation of coal, its extraction, the importance of mining infrastructures, transport and the classification process prior to its use, both as domestic and industrial fuel and as a primary source of electricity.

Secondly, visitors are shown what daily life in a mining community was like, with the mining colony of Sant Corneli and its people as a guiding thread through celebration, recreation, women’s work, school, dispensary, entrepreneurs and business, workers and their social and labour demands. Two audiovisual presentations of the most emblematic demands are screened: The events in Fígols in 1932 and The Protest of 1977.