Big Pit National Coal Museum
Museums & Science Centres · Blaenavon, South Wales
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Closed — opens tomorrow at 9.30am
🏠 Indoor0–11–33–55–88–1212–16🆓 Free entrySeasonal openingSchool holiday activitiesEducational
What’s there
- Café on site
- Parking
- Baby changing
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Big Pit at Blaenavon is free and takes families underground on a real coal-mine tour led by ex-miners, a genuinely thrilling day for older children.
Free Underground Tours 18 July - 1 September
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Hand sanitiser
- Bum bag
- Travel sickness bands
- Car window sunshade
- Spare socksThe single most reliably useful thing on this list.
- Backseat organiser
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