- Free admission
- Extended hours during exhibit
- Mon - Sat: 10am - 8pm
- Sunday: Noon - 4
- Please call to schedule tour groups (620-249-9333)
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Recent News
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 believed his history was worth preserving.
On May 1, that preservation will go public with the opening of the Miners Hall Museum in tiny Franklin, on the site of the coal mining camp’s former union hall.
Read full article from the Joplin Globe.
About Us
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.
