Lithgow State Mine Museum in Lithgow, New South Wales | Community museum

Lithgow State Mine Museum

Locality: Lithgow, New South Wales

Address: 3A State Mine Gully Road 2790 Lithgow, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.statemine.org.au

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24.01.2022 The result of a recent styled photo shoot at the museum - just lovely.

23.01.2022 On Saturday 12 December the museum hosted this year’s Ulysses Club toy run. We live supporting this community event.

23.01.2022 Clearing the No.1 Shaft Winder House floor. Its been neglected for far too long. Good job boys!

20.01.2022 Marion 7400 Dragline removing overburden at Ben Bullen Open Cut Colliery in 1952.

19.01.2022 The museum has developed a COVID-19 Safety Plan and registered with the NSW Government as a COVID Safe business. We have decided to delay re-opening for general visitation until we are confident that community transmission in New South Wales is further under control. We can accommodate groups of up to nine (9) people by prior arrangement.

18.01.2022 When an industrial dispute descended into open warfare.

18.01.2022 It’s full on at the State Mine this week! Today we had mine surveyors testing the water level on No.2 Shaft, and a visit by sports touring cars.

17.01.2022 Last week we reconstructed retaining walls destroyed by the Gospers Mountain Fire in December 2019. These works, undertaken by TP Earthmoving of Wallerawang, were funded by a Commonwealth Bank of Australia Bushfire Recovery Grant.

17.01.2022 The museum will be closed to the public on Saturday 31 October as we will be hosting a private event.

16.01.2022 Click through to our web page for a full account of the events of the 31st of July 1902 to understand why it is we remember them and commemorate the victims of the Mt Kembla Mine Disaster 117 years later. https://kemblajottings.wixsite.com//mt-kembla-mine-disaster

16.01.2022 We are hosting a lot of styled wedding shoots at the moment

16.01.2022 Between now and Christmas the museum is open on Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 4:00pm. We have QR Code check-in and payment by PayWave - simple as!

15.01.2022 An excellent morning with gorgeous weather. Today a full team of volunteers cleared a fire hazard from beside the State Mine conveyor transfer pit, cleared blackberries off the chitter heap, removed dangerous cables from the dragline bucket and cleaned out the conveyor transfer pit. Great work by a great team!

15.01.2022 Due to the current situation in Victoria, developments in Sydney and uncertainty around the spread of COVID-19 in New South Wales our board has decided to delay re-opening the museum until 6 September 2020. During August we will continue with our socially distanced Winter Working Bee program and welcome interested members of the community to attend.

13.01.2022 On Tuesday 1 December 2020 our local MLA Paul Toole visited the museum to congratulate us on our successful application for a $12,000 grant to assist with repainting of the Bath House roof. He presented museum directors Michael Langford, Darryll Cooper and Dennis Fowler with the BIG CHEQUE. Paul is an enthusiastic supporter of the museum and his visits are always an encouragement.

13.01.2022 Part of the outcome of todays working bee. The Blacksmiths Shop in the Workshops Building has been opened up to assist in development of a better interpreted space. Our large collection of forging moulds from the Chullora Railway Workshops was re-arranged and neatly stacked, some extraneous items were removed to other storage areas and rubbish was cleared away. The floors were also swept. We plan to remount a former Chullora Railway Workshops power hammer into this space.

12.01.2022 Pike river mine disaster. A decade on, RIPmen

11.01.2022 State Coal Mine workers pose in front of the No.2 (Downcast) Shaft in the 1930s.

11.01.2022 The museum is excited to announce that we have received a 2020 Community Building Partnerships Grant of $12,000.00 to assist with repair and repainting of the Bath House roof. This will improve the appearance of the building and ensure the century old roof lasts for the next decades.

11.01.2022 NOTE: The Museum is closed this Queens Birthday Weekend.

10.01.2022 Winter Working Bee #6: Ongoing clearing of the New Bath House site and Left Hand Gully, work on the PJB Minecruiser and more!

10.01.2022 The museum has developed and implemented a COVID-19 Safety Plan in accordance with NSW Government requirements. Please follow this plan.

10.01.2022 Winter Working Bee #4

09.01.2022 Winter Working Bee #8: we finished clearing the former stables site and discussed plans for the future. We are planning a new shed for this site to protect our mining machinery collection. This building may include separate studio spaces for artisans.

09.01.2022 Socks is doing his job

08.01.2022 We cant wait to welcome you all to the magnificent Lithgow destination. Whether you are returning or visiting for the first time, there is something for everyo...ne. This is the second in our series of Welcome back to Lithgow videos, focusing on the incredible industrial heritage of the destination, in conjunction with Central NSW Tourism Visit Bathurst NSW Visit Oberon Central NSW Joint Organisation @Ribbon Gang Advertising Agency https://youtu.be/fvrsCQjTuZQ #Welcomebacktolithgow #destinationlithgow #WeWantYouBack #LoveNSW @Lithgow Mercury The Village Voice PRIME7 News Central West The Sydney Morning Herald Daily Telegraph Blue Mountains Gazette Move FM 2LT Mudgee Guardian Oberon Review The Haze Mag - Blue Mountains @Ask Roz Blue Mountains LITHGOW 2790 NSW @The Kingdom of Ironfest @Wallerawang2845 Visit NSW Destination NSW @Newcastle Herald @Illawarra Mercury

08.01.2022 We believe that museums are custodians of family history and family stories.

08.01.2022 Big news from the State Mine! Today Henry Plant & Equipment Hire delivered the bucket from the Marion 7400 Dragline that operated at Ben Bullen (Wimpeys) Open Cut in the 1950s. We are grateful to Henrys and to Glencore Coal for this new exhibit. #worldminingheritage

07.01.2022 Winter Working Bee #5: On a wet day our team focused on relocating items from the former Electricians Workshop in readiness for a wedding photo shoot. A big bonus is that they managed to bring an indoor gas heater donated by Western Mines Rescue Station back into operation.

07.01.2022 On 1 September 1923 an underground fire and a series of explosions killed 21 miners at Bellbird colliery in our Northern District. The nearby town of Cessnock w...as devastated by the shocking loss of life, and 25,000 people lined the streets for the funeral. Rest In Peace. https://me.cfmeu.org.au//bellbird-disaster-1-september-1923 See more

06.01.2022 Yesterday the museum hosted representatives from Create NSW. They were impressed with our interpretations and artisan studio program.

06.01.2022 Socially distanced and very productive. Our team of volunteers have achieved a lot today. We have cleaned up the blacksmiths shop and identified a place to display a power hammer. We have also cleared overgrown bushes from behind the New Bath House site, further tidied the Workshops store and painted the personnel access door to the Bath House. Jobs well done by a great team.

06.01.2022 COVID-19 UPDATE: The State Mine Museum plans to re-open from 1 August 2020 for pre-booked tours only. We are currently undertaking and implementing a COVID-19 Safety Plan prior to re-opening our doors. Please watch this page for further announcements and updates.

05.01.2022 Simec Tahmoor "Family"

04.01.2022 A lovely post from a sister museum in Germany

04.01.2022 The Lithgow State Coal Mine headworks circa 1960. By this time the mine had reached the peak of its development.

03.01.2022 The museum received the former Ben Bullen Open Cut dragline bucket today. This is a photograph of the Marion 7400 dragline in action during 1952. (State Library of NSW Government Printing Office Collection d2_02295)

03.01.2022 On 24 July 1991 three mineworkers were tragically killed underground at South Bulli following an outburst. The investigation report found that the outburst mana...gement plan had not been properly implemented was poor qualilty. July has a deadly history of mining disasters, each a testament to the hazards faced by mineworkers every day at work. Our summary of major July disasters is here: https://commoncause.cfmeu.org.au//a-month-of-tragedy-in-c/ See more

03.01.2022 A sister project in the UK has put out a lovely short clip on the benefits of volunteering. We at the State Mine encourage new volunteers to come along and join us as we develop our wonderful community project.

03.01.2022 We remember the lives lost and the families who still grieve.

02.01.2022 State Mine afternoon. We had a relatively busy afternoon for December. A lot of people seem to be out exploring.

02.01.2022 Today we discussed plans for the erection of a monument to the pit horses of the Western Coalfield. This is planned for the spot at which the horses killed in the 1953 underground fire were buried.

02.01.2022 Following easing of COVID-19 restrictions the museum will re-open on Saturdays and Sundays from 6 February 2021. We look forward to hosting visitors in a COVID Safe environment.

02.01.2022 The museum will be closed today, Saturday 31 October, as we are hosting a private function.

02.01.2022 The Battle of Blair Mountain

01.01.2022 Winter Working Bee #4. What better way is there to work in winter than with a fire? We have been clearing up small timber and bark as part of our bushfire recovery.

01.01.2022 On 19 September 1921 an explosion at Mt Mulligan killed 75 miners, leaving the small Queensland community bereft. It remains Queensland's largest industrial dis...aster and paved the way for the establishment of a separate Coal Mining Act in Queensland to regulate mine safety. R.I.P. https://me.cfmeu.org.au//anniversaries-mt-mulligan-and-kia See more

01.01.2022 Recent happenings #statemineweddings

01.01.2022 The museum is in the running for this year’s Museums & Galleries NSW IMAGinE Awards. Fingers crossed!