Welsh Mining Museums - Welsh Mines Links Page

Welsh Mining Museums
The following museums are located in Wales and are either wholly or partly devoted to mining.

Coal Mining

Bersham Colliery Museum & Trust	Wrecsam
'Big Pit' - NMGW	Monmouthshire
Rhondda Heritage Park	Glamorgan
South Wales Miners Museum	West Glamorgan
Cefn Coed Colliery Museum	West Glamorgan

Metal Mining

The Silver-Mountain Experience (Previously the 'Llywernog Silver-Lead Mining Museum')	Cardiganshire
Minera Lead Mining Museum & Country Park	Clwyd
Great Orme Mines, Bronze Age Mining Centre	Gwynedd
Another site for Great Orme Mines
Sygun Copper Mine	Snowdonia, Gwynedd
Dolaucothi Gold Mines	Carmarthenshire
Bryntail Lead Mine - Free Access	Powys
Download the site guide.

Slate Quarries

Welsh Slate Museum	Padarn Country Park, Llanberis, Gwynedd
Llechwedd Slate Caverns	Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd
Another site for Llechwedd Slate Caverns
Chwarel Hen Llanfair Slate Caverns	Gwynedd
King Arthur's Labyrinth (Note: Not a mining museum as such, but an 'underground experience' in Braich Goch Slate Quarry)	Machynlleth, Powys
Braich Goch Slate Quarry (1/2 day exploration trips in the underground workings of this quarry.)	Machynlleth, Powys

If you find any other sites covering Welsh mining museums, please let me know using the form below and I'll update the list. Many thanks.

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