Broad Top Coal Miners Museum and Entertainment Center
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The Broad Top Coal Miners Museum and Entertainment Center is a museum documenting the history of the isolated Broad Top Coal Field in south central Pennsylvania. 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
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which the group purchased in 1991 and opened in 1992 . In 2008 the museum moved to the former Methodist church in Robertsdale, Pennsylvania
while the entertainment center remained in the theater.
The museum complex contains a large collection of mining memorabilia about the Broad Top Coal Field .
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. It was founded in 1872 as part of the construction of the East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company as the original...
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which the group purchased in 1991 and opened in 1992 . In 2008 the museum moved to the former Methodist church in Robertsdale, Pennsylvania
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. It was founded in 1872 as part of the construction of the East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company as the original...
while the entertainment center remained in the theater.
The museum complex contains a large collection of mining memorabilia about the Broad Top Coal Field .