Upcoming Events
Jun. 1 - Museum opens
Jun. 4 -Keweenaw Brewgrass Concert
Jun. 17 - Invitational Tour and Luncheon
Jul. 3-5 - Steam Train, Fireworks and July 4th Weekend Train
Jul. 3-4 - Booth in Lake Linden Park
Jul. 18 - 1 pm Michigan's Columbus, The Life of Douglass Houghton
Presentation and Book signing by Author, Steve Lehto
Jul. 18 - 7 pm Courtney Clisch Concert
Aug. 1-2 - Railroad History Days
Aug. 2 - Home Tour
Aug. 4 - David Short Recital
Sep. 12-13 - Fourth Annual Harvest Market
Sep. 12-13 - Trains, Tractors and More, Open House, Antique Tool Show
Oct. 24 - Ghost Train
Dec. 6 - Santa Train
Please see our calendar for more details.
The Heritage Center and/or Log Cabin are available to rent anytime for your event. Contact us.
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A Special Sense of Place...
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You can almost smell the biscuits as you wander through a country kitchen, and see how Great Grandma cooked her meals. |
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Stroll through the Bridal Room and experience the romance of vintage fashion.
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Mother's spinning, sewing, knitting, and weaving, making the family's duds, stretched many a mine worker's wages.
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Music. Music, Music! Every mine had a band, and the Copper Country sang in every language.
Music helped the long winters to pass...
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Come join us in Grandma's parlor!
We've got ragtime on the victrola!
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Logging histroy in the Keweenaw is often overlooked. It provided fuel, timber, and jobs! See the largest collection of memorabilia in the western U.P. |
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See the first X-ray machine in the Copper Country, the "painless" dentist equipment, a company pharmacy, and a mine body basket.
Located in the original clinic rooms of the C & H Mill Office. |
In addition to all of this, the Museum is home to Copperland Copper Art Center, featuring hand crafted copper gifts and one-of-a-kind art works.The Museum campus features a huge outdoor collection of antique heavy equipment, wagons, buggies, blacksmithing equipment, and much, much more...
Come and see... A "Bull Ladle" - A Calumet & Hecla smelter tool... A "Fanny" - for loading copper slabs onto waiting lake steamers... A "Lorry" and copper charging "Paddle"...An iron "Kibble" - from an early (1850's) mine salvaged from Lake Superior. Come and learn about how copper ore was milled and smelted in the largest copper mill in the world.
A crew of C&H workers at the Hubbell smelter manhandle a “fanny” loaded with copper cakes onto a narrow-gauge flat car for a trip to the Lake Linden docks.
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