Big Pit National Coal Museum

Big Pit National Coal Museum
Pwll Mawr Amgueddfa Lofaol Cymru
	Logo for the Big Pit - National Coal Museum.
	View of museum with the winding tower.
Established	1983
Location	Blaenavon, Wales
Coordinates	51°46′21″N 3°06′18″W / 51.7724°N 3.1050°W
Visitors	129,396 (Fiscal year 2019)
Website	www.museum.wales/bigpit/
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Part of	Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
Criteria	Cultural: (iii), (iv)
Reference	984

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. By 1 February 2001 Big Pit Coal Museum was incorporated into the National Museums and Galleries of Wales as the National Mining Museum of Wales.^[2] The site is dedicated to operational preservation of the Welsh heritage of coal mining, which took place during the Industrial Revolution.

Located adjacent to the preserved Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway, Big Pit is part of the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape, a World Heritage Site, and an Anchor Point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage.

^ "April 2019 - March 2020". National Museum Wales. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
^ "Big Pit museum celebrates 35th anniversary with new exhibit". South Wales Argos. 29 September 2018. Retrieved 27 June 2022.

[1] "April 2019 - March 2020". National Museum Wales. Retrieved 20 July 2020.

[Argos-2] "Big Pit museum celebrates 35th anniversary with new exhibit". South Wales Argos. 29 September 2018. Retrieved 27 June 2022.

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