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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.
Rhondda Heritage Park. Rhondda Heritage Park, Trehafod, Rhondda, South Wales, is a tourist attraction which offers an insight into the life of the coal mining community that existed in the area until the 1980s.
The Big Pit coal mine, now managed by Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales, was worked from around 1860 until 1980. The original pithead buildings have been preserved, including the head frame, winding engine and baths. [1] The Big Pit Colliery was reopened as a museum in 1983. Visitors may take an underground tour.
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.
Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales, [2] [3] branded as simply Amgueddfa Cymru (formerly the National Museums and Galleries of Wales and legally National Museum of Wales), [4] is a Welsh Government sponsored body that comprises seven museums in Wales: National Museum Cardiff – formerly the National Museum of Wales; St Fagans National Museum of ...
Cefn Coed Colliery was opened as an anthracite colliery by the Llwynonn Colliery Company during the 1920s. Three attempts were unsuccessfully made to sink shafts at Cefn Coed, but it was not until the Llwynonn Colliery company was bought out by the Amalgamated Anthracite Combine of Ammanford in 1926 and high capital investment made, that a break was made in the hard Blue Pennant sandstone.
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The museum has permanent and visiting exhibitions throughout the year detailing the industrial, social and cultural heritage and history of the Torfaen valley and Pontypool. Collections include local artefacts (clocks, household objects, ephemera ) and a large collection of Pontypool & Usk Japanware , which was produced from the mid-18th century.