Established May 1994 Visitors 30,000 (approx.) Curator Phyllis Sizemore Founded 1994 | Type Heritage center Director Johnny Coppinger Phone +1 606-848-1530 | |
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Location 231 Main Street, Benham, Kentucky 40807 Address 231 Main St, Benham, KY 40807, USA Similar Coal Miners' Museum, Kingdom Come State Park, Magoffin County Pioneer V, Elkhorn City Railroad, McCreary County Museum | ||
Kentucky coal museum and benham kentucky
The Kentucky Coal Museum is heritage center located in Benham, Kentucky. Its focus is the history of the coal industry in Eastern Kentucky, featuring specific exhibits on the company towns of Benham and neighboring Lynch. It is housed in a former company store that was built by International Harvester in 1923. In June 1990, the Tri-City Chamber of Commerce purchased the building for the future site of the museum. After receiving additional grants from the state of Kentucky, the museum opened in May 1994.
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The Kentucky Coal Mining Museum features exhibits on a miner's home, a company hospital, commissary, and school; engineering, coal sampling, a mock mine tour and the Loretta Lynn "Coal Miner's Daughter" exhibit.
In 2009, the museum began to coordinate tours of the nearby Portal 31 Mine, which opened in 1917 in Lynch, Kentucky. The thirty-minute tour of the mine involves eight stops that chronologically depict a different era in coal mining, ranging from the 1910s to present-day.