New Online Exhibit at West Virginia Mine Wars Museum
February 17, 2021
These artifacts tell the story of the fight for basic human rights in the Appalachian coalfields one hundred years ago.
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Museum From Below
Justseeds member Shaun Slifer works as the Creative Director at the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, an independent people's history museum in the heart of the Appalachian coalfields. The "Museum From Below" channel gathers his thoughts on the process of building this museum and the complex stories that he helps to tell within those walls. 
Here’s a peek inside the new West Virginia Mine Wars Museum!
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We’ve just re-opened in our new expanded building…
Deep Time and Class Struggle in the Museum
April 1, 2020
Draw a line from forests of giant, sporulating trees to highways built on exhausted strip mines and waste slurry impoundment lakes bursting to drown whole human communities.
New Documentary: Matewan, History From Below
February 26, 2020
A new film by Addison Post about historical memory, and how we share it.
A Museum, From Below
January 22, 2020
A new series about the rebuilding of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum!
Thoughts on Working as an Artist in a History Museum: Creating a New Exhibition at the WV Mine Wars Museum
June 4, 2019
Storytelling Through Artifacts, with Notes on Aerial Bombing and the Relationship between Mining and Militarism
Building a Replica Tent at the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum
August 22, 2016
Over at the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, we’ve just launched the first issue of our new print newsletter, In These Hills. Chuck Keeney, founding museum board member and the…
Museums From Below: Interview with Shaun Slifer
October 20, 2015
This summer, right on the heels of the public opening of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, Zach Furness (author: One Less Car, editor: Punkademics) set up a long-form email interview with…
