We're so excited to share our NEW and IMPROVED Mine Wars Museum that celebrates working people in central Appalachia!
On Labor Day Weekend, 2020, we reopened to the masked public with our expanded and new exhibits. With this video, we're giving supporters a sneak peek of what our team of volunteers have been working tirelessly on since late 2019.
You'll see a lot of familiar and unfamiliar items in our new exhibit space, including a tent replica that miners lived in during the 1912-1913 Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Strike, an area devoted to the resistance of women during the Mine Wars, a 100+ year-old Jefferson County jail cell that once held union miners during the 1922 Treason Trials, and so much more, but we won't spoil it all before you come!
With this move, we've more than doubled our capacity to showcase exhibits and artifacts in our union-owned building (owned by UMWA Local 1440). We also have a dedicated space for a gift shop, a seating area for guests to reflect or take a break, an archival room to safely store and categorize items not on display, and a special new rotating exhibition space: Solidarity Gallery.
