Big Pit National Coal Museum

Big Pit National Coal Museum (Welsh: Pwll Mawr Amgueddfa Lofaol Cymru) is an industrial heritage museum in Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales. A working coal mine from 1880 to 1980, it was opened to the public in 1983 as a charitable trust called the Big Pit (Blaenavon) Trust. By 1 February 2001 Big Pit Coal Museum was incorporated into the National Museums and Galleries of Wales as the National Mining Museum of Wales. The site is dedicated to operational preservation of the Welsh heritage of coal mining, which took place during the Industrial Revolution.

Big Pit National Coal Museum
Pwll Mawr Amgueddfa Lofaol Cymru
View of museum with the winding tower.
Established1983
LocationBlaenavon, Wales
Coordinates51.7724°N 3.1050°W / 51.7724; -3.1050
Visitors129,396 (Fiscal year 2019)
Websitewww.museum.wales/bigpit/
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Part ofBlaenavon Industrial Landscape
CriteriaCultural: (iii), (iv)
Reference984

Located adjacent to the preserved Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway, Big Pit is part of the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape, a World Heritage Site, and an Anchor Point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage.

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