The main exhibition hall is packed full of a range of exhibits which celebrate everything that the area was famous for and gives a flavour of Scotland wide exhibits and indeed some from around the world. The museum doesn't sell itself as Scotland's noisiest museum by pretence. This certainly isn't one of those museums where you will stare blankly as exhibits, worrying about your children making a noise. It has working machinery, which helps create the atmosphere of a real living, working museum including mock ups of Tin workshops, garage workshops, co-operative shops and machine houses all with real genuine machines, parts and exhibits. In addition it has exhibits celebrating Scotland's living past rather than just its industrial heritage with a "Wurlitzer" type organ, wartime clothing, wedding dresses from the 1920's etc.
Having left the main exhibition hall you have two choices. You can board the tram (cost seventy pence- which is the only cost for the whole exhibit) or walk down to the miner's cottages. It is a short walk but have you ever been on a tram? The miners' cottages are well designed to show what life was like through the ages from late 1800's to the modern 1960's. It will also amaze you as to what you can actually remember of these times (assuming of course, that you are old enough)
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