Mildly Interesting

Follow-up: http://kycoalmuseum.southeast.kctcs.edu/about_us/index.aspx

The Museum's founders were very much aware that a large majority of mining communities around Appalachia and, indeed, around the state and nation no longer exist. Many individuals who grew up in these coal camp communities now have sons, daughters, and grandchildren who have grown up hearing the stories about what life was like in the coal camps. However, for many of those people who want to share that coal camp experience with their own children and grandchildren they cannot go home again, because so many of the state's mining communities have been abandoned and torn down. It was with this thought in mind that the Museum's collection was assembled and is housed in the wonderfully-restored Benham company store.

The goal in the development of the Museum, was to tell the story. It is the story of coal in Kentucky, and the story of the thousands of workers, most of who came from the Deep South and Eastern Europe to escape poverty, and build a better life for their families. Their stories are told at the Kentucky Coal Museum, perhaps as well as they are told anywhere in the world.

To be fair, the Confederate Museum is indeed how cool being racist is.

Ignorance of the past isn’t really an excuse to keep being ignorant of the future.

“It’s a museum” is a reason why people ignored the British outright stealing India’s cultural heritage.

Sure it COULD be a monument to the ignorant usage of petroleum. But why are you so desperate to make it such?

I bet WW2 museum employees aren't even real Nazis!

do you alsl expect a paleontological museum to only employe dinosaurs?

I don't, but I wish they did.

It doesn’t say “coal mining is a great technology of the future”.

I mean, it very well might. Wouldn't be the first museum bankrolled by the wealthiest industry in town. But saving money on electricity costs is a thing a lot of businesses do for their own bottom line while advocating other people stick to the expensive way.

Yes, were are the dinosaur employees?

Yeah if anything I'd expect a coal mining museum to be way more aware of the impact of their energy source and be more likely to switch to solar.

A man can dream.