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Keno City Mining Museum is a history museum located in Keno City, Yukon, Canada. It was established around 1979 and has artifacts related to the area's gold and silver mining.〔http://www.tc.gov.yk.ca/publications/keno_wt.pdf〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Yukon Museum Guide: Keno City Mining Museum )〕 The museum occupies Jackson Hall, the city's former community centre built in 1922.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Keno City museum details mining history )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Keno City Mining Museum )〕 It was established in 1979 with the assistance of Terry J. Levicki, a geologist who worked for United Keno Hill Mines Ltd., a company in Elsa.〔 The museum is open to visitors from June to September.〔 Around 1991, the museum received roughly 500 visitors each month during its annual four months of operation.〔 ==Artifacts== The museum displays objects such as equipment, and memorabilia. It has a large collection of photographs on the second floor and a garage across the street that stores bigger items. Some of the artifacts are as follows:〔 *Listerine bottle circa 1900 *Rocking wooden washer *Tins of Lucky Strike Cola *The original telephone exchange that was used to send and receive all calls at the time *Handmade axes *Large saws that were needed to create ice blocks *Safety helmets *Drill bits *A bucket that was hand-cranked to bring ore to the surface from underground locations *An addressograph for producing employee pay checks that is said to have been used up until about 1981. *The upstairs houses a myriad of old photos. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Keno City Mining Museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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