Museum Of The Coal Industry

05/22/2026

We are looking forward to our annual yard sale this Memorial Day Weekend! Begins Friday 22nd and continues thru Memorial Day. All sales help benefit and fund the Museum! Here are some photos taken today as we were still working on setting up! Please feel free to come for a visit!

04/29/2026

Thank you to Superior Ag and Land O'Lakes for your continued support to the Bread of Life Ministry, Inc to help us keep food coming in to give to those less fortunate. Serving the community and beyond since 1973.

04/24/2026

Friends of the museum near Ohio, this Friday and Saturday is the annual Watch Fob Show by the IWFA hosted at Lakeside Sand and Gravel in Mantua, Ohio. It's always a fun show with proceeds going to a good cause. Lakeside Sand and Gravel is home to many pieces of antique heavy equipment which will be operating, and on Saturday Lakeside offers bus tours of their active operations.

03/24/2026

03/16/2026

In 2025 we had a total of 1,822 visitors to the Museum. We hope to meet or exceed this for 2026! We have our dates set for this year's events, which can be found below. The official flyer will come soon.

- April 1: Museum returns to normal Summer/Spring Season hours.
- May 9: 2nd Annual Mark Pemberton Disc Golf Tournament
- May 22-25: Memorial Day Yard Sale Weekend
- July 4: Friends & Family Breakfast, and America 250 Food Drive
- July 25: Date with Big Kate & Concert
- September 13: 250 Old-Fashioned Tent Revival with Cowboy Church & Car Show
- October 3: Collectors Day & Toy Show

Please note we are not accepting reservations for the Big Kate event yet. Once we have the transportation for the event secured we will make an announcement.

03/15/2026

One of the new items on display outside at the museum is this dozer blade donated by Verl White and Debbie Fiscus, and painted by Kailyn Ricketts to resemble a scene from the AMAX Ayrshire Mine depicting the Marion 8950 and Bucyrus Erie 3270W draglines as well as a belly-dump coal hauler. Kailyn began painting the blade in September, and the attached photos show its progression through February of this year. Many thanks to Verl and Debbie for the blade, and especially Kailyn for the painting!!
The blade is located beside the Coal History Path at the Museum.

03/13/2026

Thanks to Mitzi Morris for writing the Evansville Living article about the Museum!

Artifacts at the Museum of the Coal Industry in Lynnville, Indiana, include tools, hard hats, belt buckles, lanterns, ledgers, and a 1940 locomotive named Tinker Bell.

12/18/2025

Do you have someone in your life who has earned a place on the naughty list this year? Stop by any Lynnville National Bank location or the Museum (Currently open Fridays and Saturdays for our reduced Fall/Winter hours) and pick up a little bag of locally-sourced COAL for their stocking!

It’s a fun gift and helps support our work here at the Museum of the Coal Industry!

11/12/2025

The Museum of the Coal Industry is honored to participate in The Warrick County Museum Festival of Trees again this year. Please visit the Warrick County Museum to see all the fabulous trees on display. Thanks to Board Members Aja Mason and Sherry Meyer for getting the tree set up.

10/20/2025

Thanks to everyone that came out to our various Museum events this year! Due to a schedule conflict and also a lack of interest we have decided to cancel the Craft Show & Fall Concert for this year. We hope to have it next year and may possibly combine it with another event.

10/04/2025

Come visit our annual Collector's Day and Toy Show happening today at the Museum Of The Coal Industry!
Lunch is hot and ready!