NATIONAL MINING MUSEUM SCOTLAND

Welcome to National Mining Museum, a 5 Star visitor attraction and great day out for all the family, at one of the finest surviving examples of a Victorian colliery in Europe, the Lady Victoria Colliery at Newtongrange, just 9-miles south of Edinburgh.

Take a step back in time in The Story of Coal Exhibition to learn about coal's creation in the Carboniferous period 360 million years ago, then follow human efforts to extract it from the earth from the 13th century to modern times.