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- Extended hours during exhibit
- Mon - Sat: 10am - 8pm
- Sunday: Noon - 4
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Tiny town prepares to share mining history with the world
FRANKLIN, Kan. — At least a century ago, when Belgian immigrant Frank Leroy headed to No. 16 Mine each day to work as a mule skinner, he wouldn’t have dreamed that his lunch bucket and carbide lamp would one day be on display behind glass. His descendants, the Cukjati family of the Arma-Franklin area, were among the dozens of families who ...
Read More →Tiny Kansas town to host prestigious Smithsonian exhibit
The tiny town of Franklin, Kansas, population 250, has no school, gas station, hotel or restaurant. But for six weeks it will house a prestigious exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution. Frankin will host the Smithsonian exhibit on work and working, one of several traveling historical exhibits that breathe life into often-struggling small towns. The exhibit will visit six Kansas towns starting next ...
Read More →The Smithsonian Comes to the new Miners Hall Museum.
FRANKLIN, KANSAS -- Miners Hall Museum, located at Franklin Community Center & Heritage Museum, was selected as one of only six host organizations for the Kansas Humanities Council's 2012-2013 state tour of the Smithsonian Institution's traveling exhibition, "The Way We Worked". "The Way We Worked" explores the stories of America's workers and invites us to consider how the workplace and workforce ...
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We are an exhibition located within the Franklin Community Center & Heritage Museum in Franklin, Kansas.
The public is invited to visit and view the mining artifacts as well as other historic items.
701 S. Broadway
Franklin, KS 66735
(620) 347-4220
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Council in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution's Museum on Main
Street program. Support for "The Way We Worked" Kansas tour has been
provided by the Ross and Marianna Beach Foundation, the Western Kansas
Community Foundation, and Jostens. Support for Museum on Main Street has
been provided by the United States Congress.
