- Wilma Steele, retired Mingo County public school teacher and founding museum board member

 

At this political moment, this museum is essential as a critical voice for workers and their history.
— Barbara Ellen Smith, board member and author, Digging Our Own Graves

Bring the History Right to Your Students!

We’ve developed a series of “Teaching Trunks” containing artifacts, documents, handouts, and activities that will empower educators to teach a series of immersive lessons focused on the people, events, and themes in the history of the West Virginia Mine Wars.

#55Strong

Connect the struggles of today to the struggles of 100 years ago with our new exhibit in the Solidarity Gallery, The Children of Mother Jones: West Virginia Educator’s Strikes as Care Work

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Step Inside the Stories…

Find out everything you need to know about how to travel to the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, and where to stay, eat, and visit while you’re here.

Follow Us On the March to Blair Mountain!

With our new Courage in the Hollers project, we’re taking our work outside the museum walls and into the landscape where it all happened…
(photo by Stef Bernal-Martinez)

Support Our Work:
Shop for Books and Merch Online!

Grabbing merchandise from our online shop is an excellent way to support the work we do! We’ve got a new, expanded Mine Wars Bookshop, new t-shirts, hats, sweatshirts,
and more!

People’s History: Online!

Until you can plan your trip to Matewan, spend some time with the online exhibitions we’re curating from the entire catalog of the museum’s collection!