National Slate Museum, Wales

The National Slate Museum is located at Gilfach Ddu in the 19th-century workshops of the now disused Dinorwic slate quarry.

The workshops were all built in 1870 to serve all the needs of the quarry and its locomotives. The museum is connected to the nearby village of Llanberis by the Llanberis Lake Railway, which uses part of the building as its workshops.

The museum received a £1.6 million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund and now has innovative displays featuring Victorian era slateworkers' cottages that once stood at Tanygrisiau, near Blaenau Ffestiniog. These were painstakingly removed stone by stone and re-erected here. The museum has many interesting exhibits showing the lives and work of the men who quarried slate here.

The museum also has the largest working waterwheel in mainland Britain, which is available for viewing via several walkways.

Opening Times

10am-5pm daily (Easter-October)
10am-4pm Sunday-Friday (November-Easter)

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Ticket Prices

Admission is Free

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Disabled Facilities

Wheelchair access to most parts of the Museum. Disabled toilet.

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More Information

Telephone: 01286 870630

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