The National Coal Mining Museum for England is inviting people to take part in a special photography competition to celebrate ...

A new exhibition documenting the final years of deep coal mining has opened at a museum in Wakefield. The show at the National Coal Mining Museum for England celebrates the work of industry ...

The Museum, the former Caphouse Colliery, is on New Road, Overton, the main road between Wakefield and Huddersfield. National Coal Mining Museum’s attractions include underground tours ...

The Light Up Festival is returning this month and is set to spread festive cheer across the Wakefield district.

Coal mining museum with a restored colliery, underground tours, pit ponies, a cafe and gift shop. The Museum is open daily from 10am until 5pm (closed 1st January and 24th-26th December annually).

We were visiting Caphouse Colliery near Wakefield, the home of the National Coal Mining Museum for England, and had joined a party for the underground tour, exploring the mine at the coal face.

Union members at the National Coal Mining Museum have voted in favour of taking strike action over pay, Unison has said. Union officials said the Wakefield museum's pay offer was half the rate of ...

Workers at the National Coal Mining Museum have won pay rises after going on strike. Nearly 100 staff had secured increases of "up to 10.5%" during talks with the Wakefield museum's managers ...

“Funding for the National Coal Mining Museum is now contracted through the Science Museum Group,” the city region leaders said in a statement. “This funding is ring-fenced until ...

The National Coal Mining Museum near Wakefield in West Yorkshire is at risk alongside Bradford’s National Media Museum, the National Railway Museum in York and the Museum of Science and Industry ...

We were visiting Caphouse Colliery near Wakefield, the home of the National Coal Mining Museum for England, and had joined a party for the underground tour, exploring the mine at the coal face.