National Coal Mining Museum

Funding secured for a year long national partnership project

National Coal Mining Museum for England to work in partnership with Jason Wilshe...
The National Coal Mining Museum for England is proud to announce that it will be working in partnership with acclaimed artist, Jason Wilsher-Mills MBE, after he...

Embroidery group in Aguacatenango Mexico with dress worn by Vanessa Aguilar Juarez. Photo: Kirstie Macleod

From weaving to yarn bombing, celebrating Yorkshire's rich textile heritage

Dancing Coalfields at National Coal Mining Museum for England from Saturday, May 24, to Sunday, June 22.

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Reindeer Inn, Overton, Wakefield.

Historic 18th Century pub to be demolished

Brian Elliott with his book Miners And The Great War

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Geology Rocks event returns to National Coal Mining Museum on Saturday, April 26.

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Rock 'N' Coal Show

Unearth the Fun! Geology Rocks event returns to National Coal Mining Museum

Creative crafts at the National Coal Mining Museum this half term

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The steel artwork in the garden at the National Coal Mining Museum

The steel artwork in Yorkshire remembering the lives lost by miners

From Coal Queens to Comedy Kings: The Sculptures of Graham Ibbeson, is a unique trail that spans the museums indoor and outdoor spaces. It offers a fascinating journey through important moments in mining history while celebrating beloved performers all through the work of world-renowned sculptor Graham Ibbeson.. Graham is pictured with the sculpture of Ken Dodd. Picture taken by Yorkshire Post Photographer Simon Hulme

People's Sculptor Graham Ibbeson goes back to his coal mining roots

National Coal Mining Museum: ‘I went to visit Santa down pit before the underground closes’

‘I went to visit Santa down pit before the underground closes’

A few visitors in Scarborough. (Pic credit: James Hardisty)

Best ways to spend £20 in Yorkshire including buying fish and chips

Alan Chalkley and Rob Harper at the National Coal Mining Museum. Photo: Simon Hulme

Meet the men keeping industry alive at the National Coal Mining Museum

Light Up Festival coming to National Coal mining Museum for England

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The Coal Anthology: Book of miners strike poems, prose and photographs to launch at NCMME

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Cusworth Hall, Doncaster

Free things to do October Half-term from ghost trails to parks

National Coal Mining Museum Secures £20,000 in funding to enhance educational and family resources

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Santa meeting children underground at NCMME

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Grimethorpe Colliery Band to play concert at National Coal Mining Museum

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84/85 – The Longest Year is now a virtual interactive 3D tour from the National Coal Mining Museum for England.

Ad Feature VIRTUAL TOUR: Miners’ strike exhibition now free 3D online experience

Doncaster poet Sarah Wimbush whose collection Strike has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize 2024. Picture: Mark Hillyer

Doncaster-based poet's collection Strike shortlisted for the Forward Prize
This year is the 40th anniversary of the 1984/5 miners’ strike, one of the longest-running and most divisive industrial disputes in British history which has left a lasting impact on the communities involved.
Yvette Huddleston

Young visitors enjoying the Beach at National Coal Mining Museum. Photo: JMA Photography, NCMME.

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Uppermill Brass Band will play on Sunday, June 23.

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Without Malice or Ill Will writer and actor Ray Castleton will perform his miner turned copper play at the National Coal Mining Museum on Friday, June 7, and Saturday, June 8.

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Rare miners’ strike chess set, created by Bill Spalding, now on display at National Coal Mining Museum for England.

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Bold As Brass competition marching to National Coal Mining Museum England

Ad Feature Bold As Brass: Bands contest to blow trumpet for mining heritage

Dr John Tanner, who has been appointed new 'head of masterplan' at the National Coal Mining Museum. Picture Jonathan Gawthorpe

Historian guides a 'masterplan' for Wakefield's National Coal Mining Museum

Geology Rocks Returns This Weekend. Photo JMA Photography, NCMME.

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Geology Rocks Returns This Weekend

Explore the world beneath your feet at National Coal Mining Museum

Dr John Tanner, appointed new Head of Masterplan and Capital Projects at National Coal Mining Museum for England.

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Yorkshire's National Coal Mining Museum England is celebrating after TripAdvisor rated it as one of the England's top hidden gem attractions.

Ad Feature TripAdvisor rates National Coal Mining Museum as a top hidden gem

A major year-long exhibition commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Miners' Strike opens at the National Coal Mining Museum for England today. Head of Marketing Bryony Brown pictured in the Exhibition. PIC: Simon Hulme

The Longest Year exhibition is an important reminder
The Miners’ Strike was a difficult time for the communities that endured the year-long dispute 40 years ago.
The Yorkshire Post

Beloved pit ponies Eric and Ernie at National Coal Mining Museum for England in Wakefield

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Title: Martyn Pitt: A Life In Photography
Dates: Saturday 21 October 2023 - Sunday 18 February 2024
Venue: National Coal Mining Museum for England - Exhibition Space
Credit: Martyn Pitt, NCMME

Pictures show what life was like during the last years of Yorkshire's mines

Lynn Dunning “thrilled and honoured" to be new CEO of The National Coal Mining Museum

Ad Feature The National Coal Mining Museum new CEO is awards-winning Lynn Dunning

Fairy Week. (Pic credit: Tropical Butterfly House)

Summer school holidays 2023 Yorkshire: Family events and activities in Yorkshire

The National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield is looking for people to join its team of volunteers. PIC: James Hardisty.

Why it’s important to keep our industrial heritage alive - Jayne Dowle

The National Coal Mining Museum for England at Caphouse Colliery, New Road, Overton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, is looking for people to join its team of volunteers, building on their own skills and experience whilst helping to bring the story of coa lmining to life. Pictured Volunteer Russell Dudley, working with Aidan Taylor, aged 9, his mum Lara Andrews, and there friend Timea Michalik.
Picture By Yorkshire Post Photographer, James Hardisty. Date: 29th January 2023.

National Coal Mining Museum on the hunt for new volunteers

Archive pic: New arrivals pit ponies Eric and Ernie are welcomed to the National Coal Mining Museum at Caphouse Colliery by mine guide Col Reed. July 5, 2007.

Staff at Wakefield's National Coal Mining Museum win 10.5 per cent pay rise

Arthur Scargill pictured on the picket line at the National Mining Museum, Wakefield. Picture by Simon Hulme 26th October 2022

Striking coal mining museum workers receive visit from Arthur Scargill

Staff at the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield are on strike (Photo credit OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Wakefield’s National Coal Mining Museum staff to strike over pay

National Railway Museum, York

Yorkshire's major museums awarded government funding to preserve collections

Peddler Market in Sheffield

10 things to do in Yorkshire this weekend - whatever the weather

Bronte Parsonage Museum, Haworth

Guide to Yorkshire's 150 best days out, part one: Museums and art galleries

Women involved with the Miners strike from Yorkshire, (l-r), Carol Willis, NE, Roni Chapman, Maggie Stubbs
Caroline Poland, Marilyn Haddington, and Flis Callow, Anne Scargill and Betty Cooper. Pic: Bruce Rollinson

New exhibition and film show untold stories of the miners' strike

Baroness Lockwood

Baroness Betty Lockwood, equality campaigner

Upcycling artist James Thomas, 16, at his own exhibition at Ripon Cathedral.

Young artist, 16, recycles his way to success

A WHOPPER: The Big Big Camera will be at The National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield.

The past in focus at Wakefield's Mining Museum

Conservatives have cancelled a fundraising event at the National Coal Mining Museum.

Jayne Dowle: Northern Powerhouse in need of Cabinet Minister

Tory dinner at National Coal Mining Museum cancelled over '˜safety'

Fury as Conservatives organise party at coal mining museum

Dr Ivor Brown

Ivor Brown, lecturer and mining historian

National Coal Mining Museum for England

YP Comment: Industry's mine of information

Environment Secretary Andrea Leadsom.

YP Comment: Farming: What is Brexit plan? Food for thought over subsidies

Picture: National Coal Mining Museum for England

Mining for memories of days when coal was king

Former miners John Carrington inside Britain's deepest Christmas Grotto giving visitors a chance to visit Santa 140m underground in his winter grotto at the National Coal Mining Museum

In at the deep end: Santa goes 450ft underground

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Memories of strangers'˜ kind acts during miners' strike

Sharon Hinchcliffe and Alan Torr tied the knot 140 metres underground at the National Coal Mining Museum in West Yorkshire. Picture: Ross Parry Agency

Say you'll be mine: Couple tie knot at foot of Yorkshire pit

Mike Benson, the new director of the National Coal Mining Museum.

New mining museum chief pledges to preserve industry's heritage

Dr Margaret Faull OBE. Director of the National Coal Museum for England.
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Margaret Faull to leave as boss of National Coal Mining Museum

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