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- Extended hours during exhibit
- Mon - Sat: 10am - 8pm
- Sunday: Noon - 4
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The Way We Worked in SE Ks in Agriculture
Hosted by Girard High School Agriculture Education/FFA. View full article in Pittsburg Morning Sun
Read More →Miner’s House to Highlight History
Read about our newest outdoor exhibit in the Morning Sun
Read More →How We Worked in SE Kansas in Retail – “Sign of the Times”
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Read More →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 →THE WAY WE WORKED in Southeast Kansas ESSAY CONTEST
Miners Hall Museum Foundation is pleased to announce an essay contest on the following topic: The Way We Worked in Southeast Kansas. This contest is being held in conjunction with The Kansas Humanities Council and the Smithsonian Institution in promoting the upcoming Smithsonian traveling exhibit "The Way We Worked". Section I - General Rules: Multiple entries are permitted. Entries that address ...
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 ...
Read More →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.
