Expansion coming to southeast Kansas miner museum
FRANKLIN, Kan. — Miners Hall Museum in southeast Kansas announces expansion plans.
Mining Museum Foundation Chairwoman Phyllis Bitner said they’ve been planning this expansion for 10 years.
The museum open 12 years ago, and Bitner said the need to expand has been apparent for a while now. The new expansion will have the same foot print of the current building, but it will be three floors.
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New additions will include a replica min, an education room, an art gallery, and more space for the gallery on the main floor.
“We have people who come here and will tell us we’ve never had a connection to mining but we absolutely loved it and they will stay for hours. They use our research center, and I say when we upgrade the new building we know that the art area is going to be a very important part of it and then that coal mining experience we think that’s going to be a very important part,” said Bitner.
Bitner added their goal was to build their endowment fund first to ensure enough funds to sustain the expansion in the future.
