Amazing museum. An incredible insight into the mines from machinery and tunnels to the miners and other roles in the mining industry. This museum fully details things like workers rights back in the 1800's to strikes and even gives us an insight into child labour.
There is a nice park your young children will enjoy, also a cafe (I recommend the cherry scone).
This museum also holds events for home schooled children and has different themes at different times.
We had a fabulous day out at the national coal mining museum and we look forward to returning soon!
Excellent day spent here! Very interesting displays to walk round. Good cafe, little shop. Donations £2 car park and £5 underground tour, money well spent. Tour around 80mins no phones, watches, car keys etc allowed down. Squeezed in the lift after donning hard hat and torch. Young Joe our guide, cheery and knowledgeable having spent 30yrs down mines. Outside fab too, nature trail be nicer in better weather, loved the horses mustache!! Great day ❤️
Brilliant place! We have been many times.
If you visit, remember it is closed Monday and Tuesday. Free entry, only pay for going underground if you choose to £5 ) lots of free parking (though can put donation in if you wish) Also, the things at Hope mine, big machine sheds and little rail ride to them, don't seem to be open on weekdays, maybe at weekends? But are worth visiting on events days.
We went this tine on a weekday, up at hope pit side, There was the stables (now up near big machine shed) and the automated video information in the smaller buidings (I found the one in the pump house near the memorial garden interesting)
The playground is really good, events all through the year, nice cafe and indoor building to take your own food if it rains.
Not a bad thing about it! Well worth a visit.
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