National Mining Museum Scotland

Welcome towards the National Mining Museum Scotland, a 5 Star visitor attraction which provides everyday that is fantastic for all ages! They're based at one of the best surviving examples of a colliery that is victorian Europe, the girl Victoria Colliery at Newtongrange, simply nine miles south of Edinburgh.Visitors to the museum will marvel during the sheer size of the destination, be astounded by the engineering brilliance behind most of the machinery and retrace the footsteps and battles regarding the thousands of miners and their own families before them.Your experience starts with coal's creation in the Carboniferous duration 360 million years ago and follows individual efforts to extract it from the planet through the 13th century through to modern times.Their fantastic new addition is the Mini Miners smooth Play and Mining Mechanics Interactive Zone! The play that is soft suitable for small babies up to children around 8 years old.Plus take a guided tour associated with pithead and go through the environment and noise of a working pit because of the individual insights and anecdotes of the guides, most of who are ex-miners. Tours can be obtained throughout the day.