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Bisbee Mining and Historical Museum
Location: Bisbee, Arizona
Region: West
Website: http://www.bisbeemuseum.org
Description: Once known as The Queen of the Copper Camps, Bisbee is nestled among the Mule Mountains, an area world renowned for the diversity of its minerals and the wealth of its copper. Although its mines closed in the 1970s, this small town's legacy has been preserved not only in its architecture and its mining landscape, but in a museum that has since welcomed, educated and entertained more than a half-million visitors. Museum exhibits bring to life the history of Bisbee and in their telling of life in this city a century or more ago, visitors learn that Bisbee residents shaped a city and a nation.
Profile: Bisbee Mining and Historical Museum continues to work closely with the Smithsonian Institution to create exhibitus to interpret Bisbee's legacy. Part of this project has already included the long-term loan of nearly 150 minerals originally from Bisbee, from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, currently on view.
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