TheMuseum is open Wednesday to Sunday 9.45am – 5pm
Following further negotiations with UNISON,industrial action, largely affecting our Underground Tours, is confirmed to take place until Sunday 12 October. Although Underground Tours will be unavailable during this period, theMuseum Remains Open, and continues to share the important history of coal mining with our visitors. Read the full statement here and FAQs.
An oil on board painting by artist and miner Tom McGuinness. It depicts a colliery surface landscape with figures emerging from the buildings on the right of the picture, the majority moving to the left, past a railway signal box.
