Former name | Yorkshire Mining Museum |
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Established | 1988 |
Location | Caphouse Colliery, New Road, Overton, Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England[1] |
Coordinates | 53°38′36″N 1°37′16″W / 53.6433°N 1.6211°W |
Type | Heritage centre |
Collection size | Over 45,000 |
Visitors | c. 110,000 (2019/20) |
Employees | c. 85 (March 2021) |
Website | www |
National Coal Mining Museum for England is based at the site of Caphouse Colliery in Overton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It opened in 1988 as the Yorkshire Mining Museum and was granted national status in 1995.