Kootenay Star Museum

a memorable experience

An amazing collection of mining and other objects - machines, parts, photographs, stories, things to make you laugh and cry. The guide who presented the tour made it a personal and memorable experien...

a memorable experience

An amazing collection of mining and other objects - machines, parts, photographs, stories, things to make you laugh and cry. The guide who presented the tour made it a personal and memorable experien...

Probably interesting

aka Kelso Mining Museum. Closed when we tried to visit, but the following notes may be helpful to other visitors. The museum is housed in a storefront on the main street of town--- you actually ente...

Probably interesting

aka Kelso Mining Museum. Closed when we tried to visit, but the following notes may be helpful to other visitors. The museum is housed in a storefront on the main street of town--- you actually ente...

A gem of a museum

Wonderful museum in the basement of a little store. Clearly a work of labour and love from locals, along with the store owner whose father was a miner in a local mine. We spent over 2 hours looking th...