Minnesota Museum of Mining


		Mining trucks Trucks displayed at the Museum range from this little 1930 White dump truck with its two ton capacity to a huge 120 ton WABCO Electrohaul.

Steam Locomotive The first major exhibit for the Museum was this 1907 steam locomotive dragged up the streets of Chisholm during the deep freeze of winter more than 50 years ago. Mining equipment at the Museum has all been donated by mining companies on the Range. Donations from residents illustrate the life style of the early days

		Atlantic Steam Shovel A rare artifact at the Museum is the Atlantic Steam Shovel. Six of these shovels were made in 1910 and were considered to be the fastest steam shovels ever made. The many hills or "dumps" you see across the Range are still overburden piled by shovels such as these to get to the area below.

The Minnesota Museum of Mining holds mining equipment from the earliest days on the Mesaba range to the present time. See an early diamond drill or climb into a modern jet drill or a mammoth rotary drill. Peer inside the grand-daddy bus of Greyhound Lines started here 1916 to transport miners to work. Picnics are welcome on the pine shaded grounds, and Iron Trail campground is right next door Old Mining Street Stroll down the "street" in the main exhibit building to visit the little red schoolhouse, a blacksmith shop, a broom factory, a shoemaker's shop, a print shop complete with linotype machine, a mining office and a theater with a photo exhibit of early mining scenes.
		Steam Railroad Diorama Created by artist-naturalist F. Lee Jaques, this hand-built model railroad diorama from the artist's home was reconstructed in its own depot at the museum. It depicts an imaginary railroad that ran from the "Bay of the Wooly Mammoth to the Millennium Mine, and in 1943 won Model Railroader Magazine's award for "most outstanding miniature railroad exhibit in the USA." F. Lee Jaques' work appears in major museums across the United States.
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