8 hours ago Last but certainly not least we have Kirstie Blair, professor at @UniStrathclyde who is part of the team exploring. 8 hours ago Lucy Neville from @NMSEngage at @NtlMuseumsScot will focus on the variety of engagement methods used in her talk C. 8 hours ago Karen Rossell, co-founder and Managing Director of @ANEC_global will get us thinking about carbon's role in her tal.
8 hours ago @SincyScience will energise us with his talk "Powering Up: Using energy of the past to learn about energy of the future"!. 8 hours ago From @HistEnvScot we welcome Miles Oglethorpe, Head of Industrial Heritage, and his talk Below the surface of the. 8 hours ago We'll welcome @bridgetmck Founding Director of @ClimateMuseumUK with her talk "Code Red: Climate Museum UK as an emergency responder".
8 hours ago @SincyScience will energise us with his talk "Powering Up: Using energy of the past to learn about energy of the future"!. 8 hours ago From @HistEnvScot we welcome Miles Oglethorpe, Head of Industrial Heritage, and his talk Below the surface of the. 8 hours ago We'll welcome @bridgetmck Founding Director of @ClimateMuseumUK with her talk "Code Red: Climate Museum UK as an emergency responder".
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Welcome to National Mining Museum Scotland, a 5 Star visitor attraction and twice winner of the Association of Scottish Visitor Attractions "Best Visitor Experience" Award. The museum provides a great day out for all ages! We're based at one of the finest surviving examples of a Victorian colliery in Europe, the Lady Victoria Colliery at Newtongrange, just nine miles south of Edinburgh.
This section of the website brings everyone together. Find out about our staff, volunteers, trustees and Friends, social networking sites, community galleries and more! If you're interested in being part of the museum community this is the place to start! Here we introduce you to all of our hardworking staff and trustees with biographies and photographs.
To help ensure the safety and well-being of our visitors, staff and volunteers please read the following information before your visit. Introduced social distancing measures, hand sanitisers and PPE to help ensure everyone can safely enjoy the museum. Created an online booking system to enable visitors to book in advance, secure a specific time slot and reduce contact with others.
PRE-VISIT: The Scottish Government have requested that the public book in advance when visiting museums, art galleries and visitor attractions. To help you we have set up an online booking system. ARRIVAL: When you arrive at reception you'll see the social distancing queuing markers. Please use these to respect social distancing when waiting to enter.
Reviews (8)
Andrew Buchanan
Nov 17, 2021
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Denice Jenkinson
Oct 21, 2021
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Annie Gonelli
Oct 13, 2021
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Is was OK, take a headphones for the audio and a phone as you have to download to your own phone
Didn't know that!
We took the guided tour with a miner he was lovely friendly funny and a wealth of information
Felt the actual museum could have been better
There was alot of the space that was left the ruins yet a full £4 million over haul of a roof and half of that area isn't even used
Sad to see the amount of jobs lost through the closer not just the miners but all the others as well, joiners plumbers engineers surveyors cleaners admin catering staff etc - a huge loss to the area
Didn't know that!
We took the guided tour with a miner he was lovely friendly funny and a wealth of information
Felt the actual museum could have been better
There was alot of the space that was left the ruins yet a full £4 million over haul of a roof and half of that area isn't even used
Sad to see the amount of jobs lost through the closer not just the miners but all the others as well, joiners plumbers engineers surveyors cleaners admin catering staff etc - a huge loss to the area
Kevin Lovell
Oct 07, 2021
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Richard Payne
Aug 26, 2021
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Great place with lots of interesting knowledge and history of mining in general. We didn't do the tours and only did the two floors of the museum because of time, but it looked very good. There is a great little cafe and toilets, ample parking and a small play area for the kids in between eating and visiting :)
Sean Fraser
Aug 17, 2021
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Jason Werlinger
Jul 09, 2019
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The National Mining Museum has a lovely cafe and gift shop for a snack and gifts, but that isn't why I visited. I was privileged to be given a tour from a guide who was himself a former miner at this facility. Because he was a career miner, he knew all the intricacies of mining and the museum. Both the guide and the museum brought to life the intense and necessary industry of Scottish coal mining, and at no moment during my visit did I find myself under stimulated. The visit was very much enjoyable and I would recommend it to anyone with a few hours to spare.
Tim Stanford
Oct 04, 2016
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Very interesting and worth going. Our tour guide, John Anderson is an ex employee of the mine and very friendly and knowledgeable. I had high expectations of the tour and was excited about it and he made the tour that much better than I was expecting. Nice chap. The winding engine is very impressive. We have already recommend this place by word of mouth and the feedback was good too.
