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Thanks to Paul Abbott for the donation of the chimney from the historic steam locomotive Tiny.

A warm welcome to the Traction Owners Club on their visit to Purbeck Mining Museum.

Thanks very much to the National Trust South Dorset Association for inviting Purbeck Mining Museum to present a talk on the history of clay mining in Purbeck.

A great weekend at Purbeck Mining Museum including guests from the Swanage Railway model railways exhibition.

Thanks to Swanage WI for their visit. We really enjoyed meeting you all and hope that you can visit us again soon.

Purbeck Mining Museum thanks Mrs Stockley and the family of Len Stockley for the beautiful ceramics in ball clay which we have been able to return to display.

Engine Shed experiences at the Swanage Railway Community Weekend 14/15 Feb 2026. (Photo: Andrew PM Wright)

New exhibition of clay shipping by local artist Barry Cobb opens today at Purbeck Mining Museum

Our visitors from the Romsey U3A Industrial Heritage Group brought the sunshine with them today!

Thanks very much to the Railway Ramblers for their visit to Purbeck Mining Museum, despite the rain!

Purbeck Mining Museum's Narrow Gauge Railway demonstrations proved very popular alongside Swanage Railway's Steam Gala weekend.

Narrow Gauge Railway running at the Swanage Railway Community Weekend

Thanks very much to the Swanage Railway Sygnets for helping Purbeck Mining Museum with winter maintenance!

The Purbeck Mining Museum team of volunteers celebrated our Arts Council England Accreditation which was awarded in July 2024. (Photo Andrew P M Wright)

The new Bachmann T3 made a fleeting visit to the model of Furzebrook ball clay works at the Purbeck Mining Museum. Then PMM hosted 150 visitors to the museum as part of the Bachmann launch event of their new model on the Swanage Railway today. (Photo P Sills)

Chat with former miner Brian every Wednesday in August and September at Purbeck Mining Museum

PMM Chairman Peter Sills welcoming a group of Swanage Railway stakeholders to a guided tour (photo: Andrew P M Wright)

Guided tour for the Purbeck Society.

Thanks very much to the 226 visitors from Bournemouth District Scouts. We had a busy day!

Narrow Gauge Railway at Swanage Railway Victorian Weekend. Photo: Andrew P M Wright

Thanks very much to the Swanage Railway Sygnets for a great day's work at Purbeck Mining Museum helping us get the site ready for the 2024 season.

Some of our 200 visitors to the first day of Purbeck Mining Museum's 2024 season.

Narrow Gauge Railway demonstrations at the Swanage Railway Community Weekend. It was great to see so many visitors.

Great day for our Narrow Gauge Railway and lots of interested visitors.

Thanks very much to the Owen family from Stoke on Trent for their visit. One of them was our 4,000th visitor this year!

PMM were part of Channel 5's Dorset Countryside & Coast series. If you missed it, you can see it on-demand on MyFive. Thanks to everyone who helped out on the day and made it happen.

Thanks to all our visitors to the Narrow Gauge Railway today. We hope to see you all again soon!

Great visit from a TV production company at Purbeck Mining Museum last week. They are making a short promotional video for the ‘Purbeck Community Rail Partnership’ and it features various things to do on a day out to Purbeck traveling by SWR from London, and then using the Swanage Railway link from Wareham to Corfe Castle and Swanage.

Thanks to the lovely group from Jollydays Holidays for their visit today.

Thanks very much to Stacey and George from Imerys Furzebrook office for their visit. We're looking forward to more discussions with Imerys over the next few months.

Lovely weather to be running Purbeck Mining Museum's narrow gauge railway. Lots of visitors to the museum also.