Visit King Edward Mine to Discover Cornish Mining


Godrygeugh Whel Myghtern Edward dhe Dhyscudha Gonys Sten Kernowek

We are now open for the summer 2023 - see  Opening Times for times and days. 

We are currently restoring a Cornish Mining headframe.  Help us to fund the restoration of this important part of our heritage in the best-preserved mine site in Cornwall, please support our goFundMe  campaign https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-cornish-wooden-mining-headframe    We also have a proposal for companies who might like to sponsor King Edward Mine deliver this exciting engineering project.  To download the proposal, please use this link.


KEM Headframe Sponsorship
  • Cornish Mining Tin Mill

    Experience a Cornish Tin Mill

    Your guide will lead you and explain all our working equipment



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  • Cornish Mining King Edward Mine

    Discover Cornwall's Mining Past

    You will see and hear the last remaining Holman Winder

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  • Learn about the History of Holman Brothers

    The Holman 303 Airleg Drill was used in mining all over the world

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  • Visit the Cafe All Year Round

    There's a car park right outside for your visit


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  • Explore our Tin Mining Landscape

    Explore spectacular views of the UNESCO World Heritage Mining area  


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  • King Edward Mine Award 2023

    Award for KEM

    In 2023, the outside team at KEM won the Cornish Heritage Wellbeing Award for the ecology on site

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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 🙂


Find King Edward Mine Museum


King Edward Mine Museum, TR14 9HW  is 1½ miles south of Camborne Station, From the A30, take the Camborne/Pool exit. For full directions and information on accessibility see Find Us