Welcome to the Museum
Welcome to the Scottish Mining Museum, a 5 Star visitor attraction which 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 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:-
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a fully accessible, three-story visitors centre
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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
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a hands-on Operations Centre
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the pithead, where generations of miners descended 500 metres down into the blackness of the 'Lady Vic'
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a re-created underground roadway and coalface where you will experience the atmosphere and moise of a working pit
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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
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two audio visual shows
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Big Stuff - massive mining machinery tour (a tour of our large object store which runs on Wednesdays and Sundays only)
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licensed restaurant with play and picnic area
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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!
Our tickets are split into three sections and are valid for 1 year from date of issue so if you don't have enough time to see everything in one day just come back and complete the tour another day! Or if there are no Big Stuff tours on the day of your visit you can book a tour and come back again!
The Scottish Mining Museum Trust is registered in Scotland. Registered Office: Pagan Osborne, 55 Queen Street, Edinburgh EH2 3PA. Registered No. SCO88361