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Category: Mine Museums and Tours

  • KENTUCKY COAL MINING MUSEUM (BENHAM, KENTUCKY)

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    “Visitors to the museum can view the process detailing the formation of coal by looking at several visuals and fossil displays. Next a narrated video describes the early coal mining days in Benham and Lynch. Other displays include items from the company hospital, early mining tools, items from the commissary and the miner”s home, and…

  • KANSAS UNDERGROUND SALT MUSEUM (HUTCHINSON, KANSAS)

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    “The salt mine is still in operation. …Arriving in the mine, you receive a brief welcome to the Permian Sea, then everyone is free to do things at their own pace. There are salt mining galleries and an interesting large display of movie memorabilia from Underground Vaults & Storage, a company which uses portions of…

  • GALENA MINING AND HISTORICAL MUSEUM (GALENA, KANSAS)

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    “Features unique to the Galena Museum are a large display of mineral specimens, mining equipment and a model of the Grand Central Mine which was located just east of Galena in Central City, Missouri.” Click Here for More Information on the Galena Mining and Historical Museum [embedyt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn5oacXfYr0[/embedyt] [flexiblemap width=”100%” height=”500px” center=”37.075079,-94.64163″ zoom=”6″ zoomType=”Large” zoomNew=”1″ mapType=”Hybrid”|showMaptype=”1″|overview=”1″…

  • JOHN L. LEWIS MEMORIAL MUSEUM OF MINING AND LABOR (LUCAS, IOWA)

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    The museum, dedicated to the memory of the founder of the United Mine Workers Union, also includes antique and some modern coal mining equipment, tools and documents pertaining to coal mining. Click Here for More Information on the John L. Lewis Memorial Museum of Mining and Labor [flexiblemap width=”100%” height=”500px” center=”41.02749,-93.460914″ zoom=”6″ zoomType=”Large” zoomNew=”1″ mapType=”Hybrid”|showMaptype=”1″|overview=”1″…