Broad Top Area Coal Miners Museum
Location | 105 Church Street Telephone: (814) 635-3807 |
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Type | Historical/Museum/Library |
Website | http://broadtopareaminersmuseum.com/index.html |
The Broad Top Area Coal Miners Museum is a museum documenting the history of the isolated in south central Pennsylvania with Ron Morgan as its curator. The museum is operated by the Broad Top Area Coal Miners Historical Society. The Museum and entertainment center was originally housed in the Reality theater in Robertsdale, Pennsylvania.[1] which the group purchased in 1991 and opened in 1992.[2] In 2008 the museum moved to the former Methodist church in Robertsdale, Pennsylvania while the entertainment center remained in the theater.
The museum complex contains a large collection of mining memorabilia about the Broad Top Coal Field.[3] The museum also contains a vast collection of the Huntingdon and Broad Top Railroad memorabilia and has the most of the archives for the H&BT.
External links[]
- Broad Top Area Coal Miners Museum - Broad Top Area Coal Miners Society
Notes[]
- ^ [1] Saxton online Broad Top Area Coal Miners Museum Retrieved 2011-10-24
- ^ [2] Archived 2012-03-30 at the Wayback Machine The Broad Top Coal Miners Museum Retrieved 2011-10-24
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-12-23. Retrieved 2011-10-24.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Huntingdon County Visitors Bureau Broad Top Area Coal Miners Museum, Robertsdale, PA 16647 Retrieved 2011-10-24
Coordinates: 40°10′52″N 78°06′59″W / 40.181088°N 78.116452°W
- Museums in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania
- History museums in Pennsylvania
- Mining museums in Pennsylvania
- Railroad museums in Pennsylvania
- Coal museums in the United States
- 1992 establishments in Pennsylvania
- Museums established in 1992