Keno City Mining Museum

Keno City Mining Museum

Established	c.1979
Location	Keno City Mining Museum
Coordinates	63°54′35″N135°18′10″W / 63.9096°N 135.3028°W / 63.9096; -135.3028
Type	Mining
Collections	Artifacts and photographs
Visitors	Approximately 2,000 (1991)

Keno City Mining Museum is a history museum located in Keno City, Yukon, Canada. It was established around 1979 and has artifacts related to the area's gold and silver mining. ^{[1] [2]}

The museum occupies Jackson Hall, the city's former community centre built in 1922. ^{[3] [4]} It was established in 1979 with the assistance of Terry J. Levicki, a geologist who worked for United Keno Hill Mines Ltd., a company in Elsa. ^[1]

The museum is open to visitors from June to September. ^[1] Around 1991, the museum received roughly 500 visitors each month during its annual four months of operation. ^[3]

Artifacts

The museum displays objects such as equipment, and memorabilia. It has a large collection of photographs on the second floor and a garage across the street that stores bigger items. Some of the artifacts are as follows: ^[3]

• Listerine bottle circa 1900
• Rocking wooden washer
• Tins of Lucky Strike Cola
• The original telephone exchange that was used to send and receive all calls at the time
• Handmade axes
• Large saws that were needed to create ice blocks
• Safety helmets
• Drill bits
• A bucket that was hand-cranked to bring ore to the surface from underground locations
• An addressograph for producing employee pay checks that is said to have been used up until about 1981.
• The upstairs houses a myriad of old photos.

References

1. "Keno City - Walking Tour" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-03-31.
2. "Yukon Museum Guide: Keno City Mining Museum". yukonmuseums.ca. Archived from the original on 2015-07-18. Retrieved 2015-08-23.
3. "Keno City museum details mining history". northernminer.com.
4. "Keno City Mining Museum". heritageyukon.ca.

External links

• Examples of images on display Archived 2015-08-05 at the Wayback Machine