Friends of Durham Mining Museum	Friends of Durham Mining Museum

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The Friends of Durham Mining Museum has been set up to found and maintain a mining museum to retain the knowledge and history of those that helped drive the industrial revolution and all that followed.

The museum will be focused on the mining history, heritage and culture of the Durham Coalfield in particular, as well as mining in general.

Within the museum building will be a display area, also a workshop and space for social/cultural gatherings and meetings.

Meeting and social night every second Thursday of the month in Thornley Community Centre, Hartlepool Street, Thornley at 8pm (see below for a map and directions).

The Friends wish to preserve, foster, and promote an interest in mining artefacts and the social and cultural life of the Mining Industry and Communities in general and of County Durham in particular.

To achieve this we will:

• Co-operate with those concerned with work in Art and Education within the community, both by participation and by exchange of ideas.
  
• Present, promote, organise and produce such works, performances and exhibitions, in any medium that will help the objectives of the organisation.

If you would like to support our aims and objectives and keep our hertitage and history alive and available to all then please join the "Friends of Durham Mining Museum" - you will receive a newsletter issued four times a year (depending on submissions) that provides information on the Museum and articles on the history of mining in the North of England.

Membership Application Form

Display Room at Thornley Community Centre

We have a permanent display room within Thornley Community Center which is open on Tuesday and Thursday every week, opening times: 10am - 4pm.

How to find us:

From Durham City: take the A181 east. Turn left for Thornley at the Crossways Motel and follow the road through the village.

From the A19: take the A181 exit and follow the signs to Durham. Turn right into Wheatley Hill and follow the road through the village to Thornley. The Community Centre is just at the entrance to the village opposite the Working Men's Club.