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Cumbria's last deep coal mine closed in 1986. For the last five years, volunteers have been working to restore the two Bever Dorling steam winding engines and recount the tale of 700 hundred years mining in the area. During this time many diasters have claimed the lives of over 1200 men, women, and children as they toiled underground, up to four miles out beneath the Solway Firth. Fourteen miners are still entombed in the Haig workings after an explosion in 1928.

The Museum is sited on the cliffs overlooking Scotland and the Isle of Man and is within yards of the Cumbria Coastal Way, and only a mile from the famous Coast to Coast walk from St Bees to Robin Hoods Bay.

Phase one will be completed at the end of May 1999 allowing the museum to open. Phase's two and three will be completed over the next two years including a standard gauge rail network. A Hunslet locomotive is already in operation within the site boundary and it is hoped to re-lay rail back along the cliff tops for passenger rides.

Attractions near Haig Colliery Mining Museum include Workington, Dunmail Park Shopping Centre at Workington, Wordsworth House near Cockermouth, Maryport Aquaria at Maryport, Maryport Golf Club near Maryport.