Scottish Mining Museum

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The Scottish Mining Museum is a 5 Star visitor attraction which provides a great day out for all ages! They are based at one of the finest surviving examples of a Victorian colliery in Europe, the Lady Victoria Colliery at Newtongrange, just nine miles from Edinburgh. Visitors to the museum will marvel at the sheer size of the place, be astounded by the engineering brilliance behind all the machinery and retrace the footsteps and struggles of the thousands of miners and their families before them.

A tour of the museum includes:

-a fully accessible, three-story visitors centre

-two major exhibitions - 'The Story of Coal' and 'A Race Apart' - which feature interactive displays, reconstructions, sound and visuals to describe the history and technology of coal and the story of the mining communities

-a hands-on Operations Centre
the pithead, where generations of miners descended 500 metres down into the blackness of the 'Lady Vic'

-a re-created underground roadway and coalface where you will experience the atmosphere and moise of a working pit

-the largest winding engine in Scotland - which hauled men and coal up and down the pit shaft for nearly 90 years and is still in working order

-two audio visual shows

-Big Stuff - massive mining machinery tour (a tour of our large object store which runs on Wednesdays and Sundays only)

-licensed restaurant with play and picnic area

-gift shop

On your tour you will use our unique 'magic helmets' which are fitted with remote-controlled headphones to describe what you are looking at on site.

And you can get the personal insights and anecdotes of our guides, all of whom are ex-miners!

 

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Opening Hours:

OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK...
10:00am - 5:00pm
last Magic Helmet tour 3.30pm

BIG STUFF TOURS
Wednesday & Sunday
11.00am, 12.30pm & 2.00pm.

Admission:

Adult £6.50
Child £4.50
Concession £4.50
Family £19.95 (admits 2 adults and up to 4 children)

GROUP RATES (group of 12 or more):
Adult £5.50
Children £3.50
Concession £3.50 

Bus driver - free entry
Teachers on accompanying visits go free
One teacher per 10 pupils is recommended

The Museum operates a three part ticket which is valid for 1 year from the date of issue. 

It covers

(1) A Race Apart and The Story of Coal Exhibitions
(2) Pithead and Magic Helmets including recreated undeground and coal road (3) The Big Stuff - a tour of the large objects store which runs on Wednesdays and Sundays. 

If you can't manage to fit it all in on one visit, or if you come on a day the Big Stuff doesn't run, you can use your ticket to come back again!