King Edward Mine Museum

Outstanding museum about Cornish mining history

Outstanding museum about Cornish mining history that far surpassed our expectations. If you are interested in mining history and it’s social history you really must visit here. Included in the admissi...

King Edward Mine was the highlight of our visit to the World Heritage mining sites

The volunteer guide tailored his talk to our interests and answered all the questions clearly. Seeing the carefully restored machinery, with some working, increased our understanding of the processes ...

A real insight into Cornish mining through the ages. Excellent presentation

What a fantastic tour. Peter our guide was very knowledgeable and informative and it was fascinating to learn about Cornish mining and geology and see so many working components. We could have spent ...

Very interesting and informative visit to King Edward Mine museum

Great visit to King Edward Mine Museum. The volunteers are very knowledgeable and we learnt a lot about the minerals, mining methods and extraction. To see some of the mill machinery in operation was ...

Fascinating- highly recommend

Excellent and informative museum run by enthusiastic volunteers. Our guide, Mathew was brilliant and enthusiastically brought both the local history of mining and the whole history of Cornish mining...