This newly reopened museum is a gem. We were made so welcome both when we went in and during our visit. The displays are well set out and really interesting. There is a short tour which explains much about the life underground. I would not recommend it for young children but it is still being renovated. We loved it and the café in the car park is wonderful. We wish it every success

Easy to find, really helpful staff, amazing historical and heritage books available. Visited with our autistic son, patient and understanding staff took us on a 45 minute fascinating tour into the drift mine areas. Lots still to see in the actual museum areas, interactive digital maps and lots of artifacts. Definitely worth a trip for a few hours!

Very good interpretive displays of local ironstone mining and related social history. The tour is being developed as not all part of the drift mine are available to visit. Very enthusiastic and keen staff. Well worth the visit - and tickets include return within the year.

My wife booked for both of us to go and have the guided tour - it was brilliant! I learned so much about the history of the place we live that I didn't know before. The newly refurbished museum is full of genuine artefacts and stories from the mining industry in this area and films are shown on screens too. The guided tour of some of the mine buildings and the "experiences" you get, showing what life in the mines was like (I won't spoil the surprises here) are well worked out and delivered by very knowledgeable staff and volunteers. We could easily spend an hour in the museum plus the hour long tour - and there's a great eating place across the car park!

Absolutely fantastic. The exhibition was incredibly interesting and informative. The items on display and the information boards couldn’t be better. The videos and displays of what the miners did in their free time were particularly interesting. Keith, our tour guide, was brilliant and the tour itself gave you real insight into the work of the men, children and horses that worked in the mine. The drift isn’t quite open yet but it was amazing to see it and go inside the ventilation shaft. I thoroughly enjoyed our visit, it was fascinating, and my 7 year old did too!

So my son (11) and I went for a guided tour, the price is very good, but you must insist on the tour guide GARY, what a genuinely engaging character, full of knowledge, full of humour, kept us engaged and and we both learned an awesome amount 'Damp Squib' still makes me chuckle. Value for money defo, the museum you can look around without engaging on the tour which in itself is very high quality, but cannot recommend the tour high enough. So Gary, I do genuinely hope you get a thank you passed on from us to you and keep up the great work you do.

The exhibition is extremely interesting with one excellent film and one a bit of arty imagining. The tour was also very informative, although "tour" is somewhat of a misnomer as you don't actually go into the mine, just through some passages and into a shed. Not quite sure why we needed the hard hats but I suppose they add to the atmosphere. We did learn a lot of new to us information about the mining of iron and spent a very enjoyable couple of hours there.

My mum and dad had the most amazing day! They are definitely returning soon. Their tour guide, Robin, was FANTASTIC! He was great to chat to, and the tour around was done very professionally! He is very knowledgable about the local history and very polite. Thank you, Robin!

We just spotted the brown tourist sign for this museum on our way to our B&B and, overnight, booked two places on the 10.30am tour the next day. Our guide was Michael and he was so well informed about the mining history in the area; and the tour was really interesting. Ahead of any tour there is also a really good exhibition, plus an exhibition about geology on an upper floor. We were lucky, there were only four people on our tour but it is a really good idea to book online in advance because each tour can only take 12 people. If you enjoy history and industrial heritage do find time to visit The Land of Iron, professionally run by a team of rightly proud and enthusiastic volunteers. Also if, like us, you're celebrating your sixth wedding anniversary, which is iron, this is the place for you! We were there on the day and totally by accident!

We had 2 very enjoyable hours here, on a cold wet afternoon. Our guide, Keith, was a brilliant guide who was very knowledgeable. He explained how the mine worked and described how hard and in what conditions the miners worked. Afterwards we wandered around the little museum, which is a great social history experience. Definitely worth a visit.