Outside Machinery Days at Western Museum of Mining and Industry
8/9/2008
For immediate release
For more information
Contact: Loretta Howden
Marketing Coordinator
Phone: (719) 488-0880
E-mail: info@wmmi.org
Outside Machinery Days at WMMI
July 14, July 26, August 27, September 20 10:00 a.m. & 1:00 p.m.
Colorado Springs, CO (8/9/08)- Hear the shrill whistle of the Western Museum of Mining & Industry’s 1928 Osgood Steam Shovel. When it is operating, it never fails to attract our youngest visitors, many of them relating it to the historic and artful children’s story, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, by Virginia Lee Burton. Learn how compressed air locomotives replaced the poor mule in hauling mountains of ore, and then see one rumble out of the past and down the track!
Last, but not least, walk into the Museum’s operating gold refinery. Listen to the stories describing the dangers of being a mill man. Understand how industrial revolution technology helped our ancestor’s hew a living out of Colorado’s hard rock.
Location: Just off I-25 at the Gleneagle exit, #156A. Just across from the north entrance to the U.S. Air Force Academy.
Admission: $8 Adults, $7 AAA/Military, $6 Seniors/Students, $4 Children 3-12, Free to Children under 3and Free to Museum Members.
About The Western Museum of Mining & Industry:
The Western Museum of Mining and Industry is a private, nonprofit museum founded in 1970. We educate over 8,000 school children a year on the importance of mining in the American West. We are located at 225 North Gate Blvd., which is easily accessible from I-25 (Gleneagle exit, #156A). The telephone number is 719-488-0880, and our web address is www.wmmi.org.
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