| Award |
Year |
| Gold Award Small Visitor Attraction of the Year - North East Tourism Awards 2008 |
2008 |
| The Sandford Award for Heritage Education - Heritage Education Trust |
2008 |
| Gold Award - Sustainable Tourism - North East Tourism Awards 2007 |
2007 |
| Green Tourism Business Scheme Gold Award |
2007 |
| Green Tourism Business Scheme Silver Award |
2006 |
| Silver Award - Outstanding Customer Service - North East Tourism Awards 2006 |
2006 |
| Durham Wildlife Trust Conservation Awards 2005 Rural Community winner |
2005 |
| North East England's Tourism Awards 2005 Most Welcome Experience |
2005 |
| Guardian's Family Friendly Museum Award |
2004 |
| Northumbria Tourist Board’s Pride of Northumbria awards 2002 - Special Award to Killhope for Sustained commitment during 2001. |
2002 |
| Northumbria Tourist Board’s Pride of Northumbria awards 2000 - Special Award to Killhope as "An outstanding learning experience". |
2000 |
| Association for Industrial Archaeology President’s Award |
1997 |
| Society for the Interpretation of Britain’s Heritage "Interpret Britain" award for Park Level Mine |
1997 |
| British Telecom’s North East Museums and Galleries "Best Customer Care" award |
1994 |
| Society for the Interpretation of Britain’s Heritage "Interpret Britain" award for "Excellent Interpretative Practice" |
1993 |
| British Guild of Travel Writers "British Tourism Award" |
1992 |
| Civic Trust Award |
1992 |
| Conservation Foundation "Conservation Awards". Highly commended |
1990 |