Please note that we are set to temporarily pause our iconic Underground Tours, from Sunday 29 December until April 2025, to install a brand new winding engine. The Museum will remain open with a brand-new Time Tunnel experience launching in January 2025.
It is dark underground, really dark. So miners needed to bring their light with them. But that came with its own problems. Early lighting methods brought the risk of explosions so creating safe lighting was vital for the development of mining.