Peak District Mining Museum

The Pavilion
Matlock Bath
Derbyshire
DE4 3NR
England

Website

www.peakmines.co.uk

E-mail

mail@peakmines.co.uk

Telephone

01629 583834

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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Visit a museum where you can experience and wonder at the forgotten world of a Derbyshire lead miner. For centuries, men have toiled underground in cramped and hazardous conditions to earn a meagre living by extracting the mineral galena (lead ore).

See the tools they used, clothes they wore, the advances in technology and the importance of this metal in our modern day lives.

Crawl and climb through a maze of twisted tunnels and shafts to feel for yourself the cramped conditions of a Derbyshire lead miner. Read about the strange and ancient laws that controlled the miner's and marvel at a history dating back over 2000 years to Roman times.

Venue Type:

Museum

 Opening hours

1000-1700 everyday summer
1100-1500 everyday winter
Mine tours 12 and 2pm
Variable Open for private bookings
Christmas Period Closed

Closed: Christmas Day

 General services and facilities
  • Brochure or leaflet available with directions to museum
  • Pre-booking service for groups
  • Restaurant
  • Shop
 Children and families
  • Events and resources for children and families
 Disability access
  • Wheelchair access to some public areas
 Schools services and facilities
  • Direct teaching services for schools
  • Member of staff available with responsibility for education
  • Primary school education service available
  • Secondary school education service available
  • Education facilities available
 Research and adult learning
  • Academic publications and resources available
  • Loan service
  • Library with public access

The Pavilion
Matlock Bath
Derbyshire
DE4 3NR
England

Website

www.peakmines.co.uk

E-mail

mail@peakmines.co.uk

Telephone

01629 583834

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.

Collection details

Archaeology, Natural Sciences, Science and Technology

Collections services

  • Object identification and/or written enquiry service
  • Specialist publications on collections available
  • Object study facilities available (enquire in advance)

The Pavilion
Matlock Bath
Derbyshire
DE4 3NR
England

Website

www.peakmines.co.uk

E-mail

mail@peakmines.co.uk

Telephone

01629 583834

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
Resources listed here may include websites, bookable tours and workshops, books, loan boxes and more. You may need to scroll down or click on headers to see them all.
 Digital and online resources

http://www.learnwithmuseums.org.uk/JourneyView.asp?JID=100&PID=457

This resource uses photographs from the museum's collection as a source of information about Matlock Bath in Victorian times. Pupils are encouraged to use visual literacy and critical thinking skills to discover things about the past and make comparisons with the present.

Publisher

  • Learn with Museums
 Paper-based and downloads

Lead Mining in Derbyshire

Schools outreach facilities including KS2 lesson plans, activities, artefacts, minerals and roleplay costumes. Themes explored include local minerals; how these minerals were extracted in the past; peculiar laws of lead mining; hazards of lead mining and mining vocabularly.
The resource can be loaned by schools to use as a series of 6 lessons for a local studies project, or museum staff can bring the resource out and conduct activities for a day.

Creator

  • The resource was created by Laura Smith, from the museum, and Chris Watts, teacher at a local primary school, with funding and support from the MLA.

How to obtain

Contact the museum on 01629 583834

The Pavilion
Matlock Bath
Derbyshire
DE4 3NR
England

Website

www.peakmines.co.uk

E-mail

mail@peakmines.co.uk

Telephone

01629 583834

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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