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Lithgow State Mine Heritage Park

Tourist attractions Mining

3A State Mine Gully Rd, State Mine Gully, NSW 2790

Description

The Lithgow State Mine Heritage Park & Railway is an Australian mining museum, located in the Central Tablelands city of Lithgow, New South Wales.

The museum is principally a museum of coalmining and related industries. The aim of the project is the showcase the industrial history of the western coalfield of New South Wales.

The mining museum contains Australia's most comprehensive collection of coalmining artefacts, including coal cutters, coal loaders, continuous miners and underground transports. A recently developed multimedia exhibit titled "Fire in the Mine" explores the working lives of coalminers in the mid Twentieth Century and the horrific consequences of an underground fire that occurred in the State Coal Mine in 1953.

The museum's latest exhibits "Hewers of Coal" and "Lithgow Valley Colliery Fire & Explosion 1886" use photographs, artefacts and digital media to investigate various aspects of coal mining in the New South Wales Western Coalfield.

Details

Museums: Mining

Open Days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday

Location

3A State Mine Gully Rd, State Mine Gully, NSW 2790

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Lithgow State Mine Heritage Park - Localista

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