Shoshone County Mining & Smelting Museum

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Exhibits

2011 Exhibits:

First Floor

  1. The tour starts in the entry hall with the Barnard-Stockbridge photoes.  It continues down the hall and in the Gift Shop with photoes of the South Mill before the blast..
  2. Kitchen or family life display with ice box, irons, jugs, old menu, kitchen appliances, etc.
  3. "Miner's Picnic" exhibit
  4.  2011 Special Exhibit "Timbers to Tunnels"
  5. 20th Anniversary Commemoration Exhibits
  6. Stairway to basement for minerals and mine models.

Second Floor

  1. Medical Exhibit - Old instru- ments, doctor's photos, etc.
  2. Easton room with old furniture, phonograph, oregon & chairs.  BoyScouts & Y.M.C.A. displays
  3. Sunshine Memorial Display - Dedicated to 91 Sunshine miners who lost their lives in 1972 mine fire.
  4. Textile Room - Old clothing items and quilts
  5. Prospector's Room - Photos & examples of end products
  6. WWP (Avista) Room. Photos of electrical transmission to area in 1903 & early equipment. 
  7. Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining Co. presidents room and Jackass Ski Bowl memorabilia
  8. Metallurgy Room - Photoes and examples of end products.
  9. School room - Dedicated to early school photoes & trophies.

Basement

  1. Fluorescent Miners Display
  2. Minerals from around the world.
  3. Local Minerals, Galena, Lead Carbonate, Tetrahedrite & Sphalerite
  4. Three Dementional Bunker Hill Mine Model
  5. Seven Mines Model
  6. Office equipment, map of local mill sites & DVD of local mining history
  7. Historic Bunker Hill payroll books

Outside - Pads

  1. Lead Smelter - Silvery Refinery
  2. Small Mine Machinery
  3. Smelter Lead Refinery
  4. Aerial Tramways & Ore Haulage Items
  5. Miscellaneous
  6. Nordberg Air Compressor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gift Shop – The museum offers a fully stocked gift shop featuring a large selection of books, huckleberry items, t-shirts, jewelry, souvenir items and more.
 





























 
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