Open Wednesday to Sunday 9.45am – 4pm / December Weekends (until 22 December) 9.45am – 6.15pm
Please note that we are set to temporarily pause our iconic Underground Tours, from Sunday 29 December until April 2025, to install a brand new winding engine which allows us to take visitors 140 metres underground. The Museum will remain open with a brand-new digital immersive experience launching in January 2025.
It is dark underground, really dark. So miners needed to bring their light with them. But that came with its own problems. Early lighting methods brought the risk of explosions so creating safe lighting was vital for the development of mining.