Killhope, North of England Lead Mining Museum

Killhope the North East's Small Visitor Attraction of the year and inaugural winner of the Guardian's Family Friendly Museum is where visitors can discover the lives of Victorian lead mining families.

Park Level mine is a real adventure. Equipped with hard hat, lamp and wellies, visitors are guided down the original tunnel and on the surface, can dress up in Victorian style clothes and work as a washer boy. 

Killhope holds the national collection of spar boxes, a traditional art form of the North Pennines, which sits alongside collections of magnificent minerals and pennine jewels. It also has the North of England's largest working water wheel.

Killhope (with The Bowes Museum) is part of a national programme (Museumaker) enabling museums to get young people to work with contemporary crafts people to develop their skills.