Please note that we have temporarily paused our iconic Underground Tours until April 2025, to install a brand new winding engine. The Museum remains open with a brand-new Time Tunnel experience now bookable. Underground Tours can now be booked and will be back on 2 April 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.