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Welcome to National Coal Mining Museum

The National Coal Mining Museum provides a unique, fully equipped conference facility in the Wakefield area.

The National Coal Mining Museum, Wakefield, West Yorkshire is a unique venue providing fully equipped conference facilities for businesses throughout the region. Located close to Wakefield, with easy access from the M1 motorway it is ideally located for employees based locally and throughout the UK to meet.




The Museum offers facilities for a wide range of uses including conferences, meetings, seminars and social functions and is available for both daytime and evening events, all tailored to meet your requirements. Our conference team are on hand to ensure your event runs smoothly and presents a professional operation for your business.


Whilst enjoying the conference facilities at the Museum, take advantage of the mine's facilities and take the underground tour (approximately 1hr), guided by an ex-miner you'll find out what a hard days work really was.



The conference facilities in Wakefield consist of the Caphouse Suite, a conference facility of nearly 18m in length x over 16.5m in width. The room can be used to accommodate

  • 200 delegates theatre style,
  • 145 banqueting,
  • 80 classroom or
  • 70 board style


alternatively the room can be divided in to 3 separate rooms, Denby Grange, Hope and Prince of Wales. Each of these rooms can be utilised to accommodate


  • 50 delegates theatre style
  • 24 classroom or
  • 30 boardroom



We offer a full range of facilities to ensure your conference runs smoothly, including

  • in house catering
  • fully licensed bar
  • projectors for presentations
  • cd/dvd players
  • televisions
  • hand held and lapel microphones
  • overhead projectors
  • white boards and flipcharts,

All equipment provided is included within the room hire costs.



Ask our conference facilities team about our Adventure Day, a non-competitive day designed to test a wide range of skills to complete the task set. The adventure day focuses on a range of skills and focuses on team building, communication and problem solving.





Call the Conference Team at The National Coal Mining Museum, Wakefield, West Yorkshire on Wakefield 01924 848806 to discuss your conference facility requirements.






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Contact Details

Caphouse Colliery
New Road
Wakefield
West Yorkshire

WF4 4RH

Tel: 01924 848806
Fax: 01924 844567
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