New Mexico Mining Museum - Grants

Address:100 N Iron Ave.
Grants, New Mexico
Tel: (505) 287-4802

Get an up close look at the raw and often dangerous conditions of mines, at the only uranium mining museum in the world! Take a self-guided tour underground into a replica of a mine, complete with drilling and blasting equipment!

Once, just a hole in the ground, the New Mexico Mining Museum is a real uranium mine domed into a museum made of white stone and glass. This intriguing museum allows visitors the opportunity to enjoy an underground adventure of traveling into a re-creation of a mine shaft, after viewing on ground level a fossilized dinosaur leg bone and a piece of Malpais lava. Learn how uranium was mined, and view photos of the uranium-mining pioneers.

Visitors to the New Mexico Mining Museum can also walk into a mine-shaft-like doorway, adorned with rusty metal hats where an elevator takes you down into a spooky, low-lit place with stone walls (the station where uranium was loaded and unloaded). Travel down into the earth through places defined on wall plaques and get a sense of the dark and dirty work that mining can be! If you suffer from claustrophobia, it's advisable to stick with exhibits above ground.

The New Mexico Mining Museum is located at 100 North Iron Avenue Grants, New Mexico.

In the mining industry, it's a fact of life and a philosophy: everything starts with a hole in the ground. Ask any miner from the earth-hardened veteran of twenty to thirty years underground to the rugged young roustabout with the razor cut hair style under his hard hat.