Visit King Edward Mine to Discover Cornish Mining
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We are now open for the summer on four days per week (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday). Please check opening times as we may extend these days during school holidays.
If you would like to volunteer as a museum guide or help in our reception area, please see our volunteering page. This is an opportunity to greet our many UK and international visitors in 2025.
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What Our Visitors Say About Us
"Visited King Edward Mine Museum today, it was EXCELLENT!! Our guide Nigel could not have been more interesting & knowledgeable. And very patient with all our questions. Fascinating to see all the working machinery, I learnt more about mining in 2 hours than I have my whole life!😁
Go!! Support this brilliant museum!"
"A wonderful place to learn about Cornwall's mining heritage and to understand how it impacted the landscape and people. Would highly recommend joining the guided tours led by the volunteers, some ex-miners themselves, sharing their experiences and knowledge. A really nice few hours spent walking round the site and museum, plus great cakes at The Croust Hut next door."
"This is a must for all visitors to the Camborne area. The exhibits are historically accurate pieces of equipment and they can be seen at work - they’re not static museum pieces! For anyone who has even a passing interest in the Cornish mining industry or more detailed interest in mineral processing this is an attraction
that must be seen".
April 2023: Thank you for our lovely little visit today. Our guide was amazing in every way. Tailored our tour to keep our daughter content and happy and we all really enjoyed our time with you. All the volunteers took time to talk to us and interact with us and our daughter. There was lots of buttons to press that all worked something different a model or a story. And she enjoyed the dressing up and colouring in. Thank you everyone involved 🙂
