Calendar of Events

Join us on the third Sunday of each month for a drop-in style family program to engage in S.T.E.A.M. concepts like building, engineering, and strategic thinking. As part of our Free Family Sundays program, all youth 12 and under receive free admission when accompanied by an adult.

Photographer, educator, and visual historian Michael Froio will present Over the Mountain at the National Museum of Industrial History as part of the museum’s annual Anthracite Mining Heritage Month series. Drawing on more than two decades of experience documenting America’s industrial and built landscapes through large-format and digital photography, Froio will explore his ongoing project […]

Professors Robert Wolensky and Thomas Mackaman will give a presentation about their new manuscript “Anthracite Insurgents.” The volume deals with labor-management, labor-labor, and labor-government conflict in the northern anthracite coalfield (the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton areas).  A particular focus is on a newly formed labor union, the United Anthracite Miners of Pennsylvania (1933-1935), which challenged both the coal […]