Big Pit National Coal Museum
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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.[2] The site is dedicated to operational preservation of the Welsh heritage of coal mining, which took place during the Industrial Revolution.
Pwll Mawr Amgueddfa Lofaol Cymru | |
Established | 1983 |
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Location | Blaenavon, Wales |
Coordinates | 51.7724°N 3.1050°W / 51.7724; -3.1050 |
Visitors | 129,396 (Fiscal year 2019)[1] |
Website | www.museum.wales/bigpit/ |
Part of | Blaenavon Industrial Landscape |
Criteria | Cultural: (iii), (iv) |
Reference | 984 |
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.