The Broad Top Area Coal Miners Museum is a museum documenting the history of the isolated Broad Top Coal Field in south central

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...

with Ron Morgan as its curator. The museum is operated by the Broad Top Area Coal Miners Historical Society. The Museum and entertainment center was originally housed in the Reality theater in

Robertsdale, Pennsylvania Robertsdale is an unincorporated community in Wood Township in southern Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is situated on Broad Top Mountain near the eastern slope. History The community was founded in 1872 as part of the constr ...

. which the group purchased in 1991 and opened in 1992. In 2008 the museum moved to the former Methodist church in

while the entertainment center remained in the theater. The museum complex contains a large collection of mining memorabilia about the Broad Top Coal Field. Huntingdon County Visitors Bureau ''Broad Top Area Coal Miners Museum, Robertsdale, PA 16647'' Retrieved 2011-10-24 The museum also contains a vast collection of the Huntingdon and Broad Top Railroad memorabilia and has the most of the archives for the H&BT.

External links

Broad Top Area Coal Miners Museum
- Broad Top Area Coal Miners Society

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