WV Mine Wars Museum

December 15, 2022

Announcements

We're Hiring an Education Coordinator!

WV Mine Wars Museum

December 15, 2022

Announcements

We are so excited to announce that we’re looking for our next team member to join our small staff at the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum! All the details for the Education Coordinator position can be found in this blog post.

WV Mine Wars Museum

November 7, 2022

Programs

Uncovering Our Past: Building Our Future

WV Mine Wars Museum

November 7, 2022

Programs

Uncovering Our Past: Building Our Future

At the beginning of this year, we partnered with local students at Tug Valley High School of Mingo County, Westside High School of Wyoming County, and Explorer Academy of Cabell County. Students completed lessons on the Mine Wars, and created art based on their learning…

WV Mine Wars Museum

November 7, 2022

Events

Kim Kelly came to Matewan!

WV Mine Wars Museum

November 7, 2022

Events

Hosted by the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum and funded by the UMWA, labor justice activist and author Kim Kelly came down to UMWA Local 1440 in Matewan to do a reading from their newly published book…

WV Mine Wars Museum

November 7, 2022

Programs, Events, Courage, Announcements

We achieved something MONUMENTAL on Labor Day Weekend.

WV Mine Wars Museum

November 7, 2022

Programs, Events, Courage, Announcements

We achieved something MONUMENTAL on Labor Day Weekend.

Labor Day already gives us plenty of reasons to celebrate the national labor movement, but if you were with us this year in Matewan, Clothier, or Marmet, you know it was extra special. Thanks to those of you who were with us in body and in spirit. Our history and stories were on proud display…

WV Mine Wars Museum

November 7, 2022

Events, Video, Support

People Powered. People Funded. People's History.

WV Mine Wars Museum

November 7, 2022

Events, Video, Support

People Powered. People Funded. People's History.

We've been bringing labor history to community members, educators, students, and visitors from around the world for nearly 8 years! It was donations from our supporters that started this project in 2015, and it's your donations that not only keep us alive, but…

WV Mine Wars Museum

October 11, 2022

Kim Kelly is coming to Matewan!

WV Mine Wars Museum

October 11, 2022

On October 16th at 6:30 pm, the Mine Wars Museum is hosting a book reading with Kim at UMWA Local 1440 (184 Mate Street)…

WV Mine Wars Museum

August 25, 2022

Courage, Programs

Monument Unveiling this Labor Day Weekend

WV Mine Wars Museum

August 25, 2022

Courage, Programs

Earlier this year, the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum launched Courage in the Hollers: Mapping the Miners’ Struggle for a Union, a new public history and monument project in the southern West Virginia coalfields…

WV Mine Wars Museum

August 6, 2022

Video, Courage

Monument Lab’s Re:Generation Roundtable ft. Shaun Slifer

WV Mine Wars Museum

August 6, 2022

Video, Courage

Monument Lab’s Re:Generation Roundtable ft. Shaun Slifer

Mercedes Dorame, Tomiko Meeks, Andrea Roberts, and our museum’s own Shaun Slifer discuss their public memory work…

WV Mine Wars Museum

July 7, 2022

Courage

Photo Shoot: Courage in the Hollers

WV Mine Wars Museum

July 7, 2022

Courage

Now, the silhouettes we’ll be creating from these photos will become the actual monuments, soon to be laser cut from Cor-Ten steel.

WV Mine Wars Museum

May 18, 2022

Announcements, Courage

Courage in the Hollers: The Museum Joins a Nationwide Public Memory Cohort!

WV Mine Wars Museum

May 18, 2022

Announcements, Courage

Courage in the Hollers: The Museum Joins a Nationwide Public Memory Cohort!

Building on the momentum of the Battle of Blair Mountain Centennial, the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum is proud to announce a new public monument project with Monument Lab!