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A new pop-down restaurant named as Muru Pops Down, which is 80 meters underground, has opened in Finland's Tytyri Mine Museum in Lohja to provide a new mining experience to the diners.

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Contrasting the current trend in which restaurants are either hoisting guests in the air or popping up on the rooftops of buildings, the new pop-down restaurant will take diners down to a makeshift mining canteen.

To explore the planet's underbelly, the restaurant features an elevator shaft, which can take the guests to descend 350 meters below the subterranean limestone crust of the Tytyri mine to get a totally new experience. KONE's test laboratory lifts will be used for the purpose.

"Muru Pops Down in Tytyri" is part of World Design Capital Helsinki 2012, in which the city is given the international spotlight to promote its cultural, social and economical development through innovation and design.

The pop-down restaurant will be open for two weeks between 10-24 September 2012.