The museum, local board formed by of the council of the town of Cercs, the mining companies Carbones de Berga SA. and Carbones Pedraforca SA., and the National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia and the “Xarxa de Museus locals”.
Nowadays, within a building, which first was a convent and then “Home of the miner” and inner of the 500 metres of St. Romà gallery, solely devoted to explain the history and the technological evolution of the coal mining in Berguedà, intends to become a centre of interpretation of 150 years of life evolving around coal.

The colony, like Sant Josep and Consolació, were the most important mining centres in Catalonia, and the most extensive mines exploitation centres, situated in Cercs, Fígols and Vallcebre. These mines were exploited by “Carbones de Berga S.A.” founded in 1911, they have worked until 1991.