401 Mate Street
Matewan, 25678
USA

In the town of Matewan, the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum sits at the site of a historic battle which erupted in May of 1920, setting into motion a chain of events that led to the largest armed uprising in the United States since our civil war.
For decades after the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain, the stories of the Mine Wars were whispered around kitchen tables and bullied out of textbooks, surviving as a quiet legacy just under the surface of modern Appalachia. The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum preserves and uplifts the voices of the people who lived these stories of sacrifice, violence, and triumph.
Our museum is located inside the Cecil E. Roberts building, owned and operated by United Mine Workers of America local 1440.
Our independent people's museum is the result of years of work by historians, archaeologists, storytellers and artists, descendents and mine workers -- many of them residents of coalfield communities. Positioned at the intersection of historical and contemporary struggles for justice in the coalfields, we bring visitors into a powerful reckoning with the unique history of human labor in the privatized coal camps of Central Appalachia -- and what it took to build dignity and respect where none was given.

Website: www.wvminewars.com/