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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.
Blaenavon Ironworks is a former industrial site which is now a museum in Blaenavon, Wales.The ironworks was of crucial importance in the development of the ability to use cheap, low quality, high sulphur iron ores worldwide.
In November 2000 UNESCO designated the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape as a World Heritage Site, including the town, ironworks, Big Pit Museum and Hill's tramroad with its Pwll Du tram tunnel. [1] Part of the ironworks is now a museum. [13]
Museum visitor numbers [10] Museum Visitor numbers (2017) Image St Fagans National Museum of History: 553,090 National Museum Cardiff: 539,550 National Waterfront Museum: 268,622 National Slate Museum: 145,969 Big Pit National Coal Museum: 141,969 National Roman Legion Museum: 70,021 National Wool Museum: 36,909
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Rhondda Heritage Park exists on the site of the former Lewis Merthyr Colliery as a testament to the coal mining history of the Rhondda Valleys, which until the end of the 20th century was one of the most important coal mining areas in the world: in an area only 16 miles (26 km) long, Rhondda alone had over 53 working collieries at one time.
This list of museums in Wales contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organisations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing ...
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