Comer Museum
The Museum is dedicated to preserving the social, cultural, and technological history of the coal, oil and natural gas industries, (especially in West Virginia, but includes related information from the surrounding states) through research and educational programs as well as the collection of objects and archival materials. The Museum is housed on the ground floor of the Mineral Resources Building on the Evansdale campus.
Partial listing of our current collections:
- Objects: miners lamps, scrip, check tags, coal punches, bird cages, dinner buckets, fossils, gas testing equipment, personal protective equipment, blasting tins and caps, augers, picks, scatter tags
- Works of art depicting related objects and/or scenes
- Working models of oil derricks and coal mining equipment
- Archival materials including photographs, negatives and prints, pay envelopes, miners certificates, railroad maps
     
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