page_title: National Coal Mining Museum for England
section_title: Museum
hierarchical_section_title: National Coal Mining Museum for England / Museum
caption_attribution_description: English: Headstock at National Coal Mining Museum (Caphouse Colliery). March 2011.
context_page_description: The 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.
context_section_description: The museum offers guided underground tours where visitors can experience the conditions miners worked in and see the tools and machines they used as the industry and the mine developed through the years. Above ground there is a visitor centre which houses exhibitions on the social and industrial history of the mines. The extensive library and archive contains issues of "Coal News" and details of collieries throughout England. Other features include the pit head baths, steam winding house, boiler house and coal screening plant. It is possible to ride the paddy train and follow the nature trail near to Hope Pit and water filtration tanks.
  From 1994 the museum housed two pit ponies that had previously worked in Ellington Pit known as Carl and Sparky. They died 2006 and 2007 respectively.
  The museum is an Anchor Point of ERIH, the European Route of Industrial Heritage.
  The museum held the exhibition 'My Mining Days' for mining artist Tom Lamb in 2008-2009.
caption: Headstock
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