Visitors worth their salt in Kansas

VISITORS to the Kansas Underground Salt Museum are now being welcomed in the new visitor centre, an expansion of the temporary building being used by the museum during its first 15 months of operation. 

The museum is a unique facility in that it is the only place in theWestern Hemisphere where a museum is located in a working salt mine.

Visitors enjoy a trip 650-feet below ground where they board a tram that takes them on The Dark Ride, an area of the underground mine. After The Dark Ride, visitors exit the tram and are then able to explore the museum exhibit areas at their leisure.

The museum illuminates the stories, and other topics, like geology, mining techniques, and the multiple uses for salt today
     
The museum plans to add rotating exhibits to the above ground area for visitors to peruse before and after their trip 650-feet underground. Completion of the visitor centre marks the end of the major construction slated for the Kansas Underground Salt Museum. 

The Salt Museum is open to the public for tours Tuesday – Saturday from 9.00 to 18.00 and Sundays from 1 p.m. - 6 p.m. www.undergroundmuseum.org