Welsh Slate Museum
The
Welsh Slate Museum is located at Gilfach Ddu in the 19th century workshops of the now disused
Dinorwig Slate Quarry, within the Padarn Country Park,
Llanberis. The museum is connected to the nearby town of Llanberis by the
Llanberis Lake Railway.
The museum reopened after receiving a £1.6 million grant from the National Lottery Fund and now has innovative displays featuring Victorian slateworkers' cottages that once stood at
Blaenau Ffestiniog. They were taken down and re-erected here. As well as many interesting exhibits, it has the multi-media display,
To Steal a Mountain, showing the lives and work of the men who quarried slate here.
The museum also has the largest working waterwheel in the
United Kingdom, which is available for viewing via several walkways. The museum is also home to a replica lift that would have been used to carry eight slate wagons uphill and downhill.
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Welsh Slate Museum
