National Slate Museum

National Slate Museum

National Slate Museum
Llanberis
Gwynedd
North Wales
LL55 4TY

Tel: 01286 870 630
Fax: 01286 871 906

Web: National Slate Museum

About National Slate Museum

Dinorwig Quarry closed in 1969. Today - rather than fashioning wagons and forging rails - the workshops tell a very special story: the story of the Welsh slate industry. The National Slate Museum is sited in the Victorian workshops built in the shadow of Elidir mountain, site of the vast Dinorwig quarry. Here you can travel into the past of an industry and a way of life that has chiselled itself into the very being of this country. The Workshops and Buildings are designed as though quarrymen and engineers have just put down their tools and left the courtyard for home, while an array of Talks and Demonstrations including slate-splitting give you a real insight into quarry life.
You'll hear the gripping Story of Slate, encompassing such great events as industrial unrest on the one hand, and the small details of everyday life on the other. Fron Haul recaptures significant periods from the slate industry with a row of quarrymen's houses on the museum site. Strikes and suffering, craftsmanship and community: all the drama of real people's lives.
The National Slate Museum at Llanberis invested a £1.6 million lottery grant into bringing back to life the inheritance of the north Wales slate industry, which roofed the industrial revolution.
Now, with imaginative interpretation,