Museum Represents a museum WC Yes EventsForChildren No Place The town or city Dumfries and Galloway HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear No DisabledAccess Yes Activities <p>Directions: From A76 take the junction for Wanlockhead (B797) just outside Mennock. Climb through the Mennock Pass to Wanlockhead. From M74 travelling south take Junction 13 and follow the signposts.</p> OpeningTime1 11.00-16.30 OpeningDate1 30/9/2012 OpeningTime2 11.00-16.30 IsNewThisYear No ID Google Panorama ID 12376 Refreshments No Street The street address Wanlockhead Village AddressLine2 By Biggar Postcode ML12 6UT Parking No DisabledWC No LimitedAccess No NotAccessible No Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wanlockhead Lead Mining Museum Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived dumfriesandgalloway Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1165 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,55.39709,-3.780852; Description An account of the resource <div>Hidden Treasures, Museum of Lead Mining, is situated in Wanlockhead, the highest village in Scotland. Here you can explore the Visitor Centre, take a tour into the dark inside the Lead Mine and see how people lived here in three period Cottages 1750,1850 and 1910.</div><div>Despite the hardship of the work and the climate, Wanlockhead’s miners created one of the oldest Subscription Libraries in the country, which still has its original collection of almost 3,000 books.</div>