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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
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, ch
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 th
Loved it here! We had booked the underground tour, and it was truly fascinating - and Gaz(? if thats how you spell his name, sorry!) was a really funny guy, showing us around and explaining everything well - the nature path was lovely as well, highly recommend!
Great place to visit, went with my daughters aged 17 and 14 both really enjoyed. Underground tour was with young Joe. All the museums very informative and the nature trail and small waterfalls walk to the ponies was worth it even in the rain. This was our second visit. We spent about 4 hours here.
Amazing place to visit. We paid £5 each to go down the mine.
Taz our guide was full of interesting information and had a great sense of humour. Well worth a visit.
A fantastic experience at the mining museum. The experience to go down a mine with a former miner is absolutely incredible and is serious value for money. The tour itself is about an hour and a half and it should be said that it requires quite a bit of ducking and if you are particularly claustropho
A very interesting place, an interesting place for a family holiday, after prior reservation you can visit the underground part of the museum, under the care of a guide who tells stories in a passionate and interesting way about the history of mining, the opportunity to take a ride on a mining train
This is a fantastic museum it's such a good experience with so much to do !! There is a cafe, ample parking, playground, memorial garden, a nature trail, the museum portion, conference room and you can even go down into the mine. They have lots of events on throughout the year and we just watched
An absolutely fantastic museum that is a must visit if you are in Yorkshire. There are lots of really interesting exhibits that go into great detail about the mining industry and the staff are all really friendly. You must book on the the underground mine tour, for just £5 you get led around the min
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