Museum

Tin mining museum 

Phuket Mining Museum, located in Kathu on the road between Loch Palm Golf Club and British International School, is one of the island’s most interesting history of Phuket museums. . Price, for Thais 50 baht per adult and 20 baht per child and for foreigners 100 baht per adult and 50 baht per child.

The building is in the Sino-Portuguese style, built in a square around a large open courtyard .Museum is an interest in industrial processes, From the evolution of man and the beginnings of using rocks and mental as tools, to the mining of minerals for making metals that led to the beginning of tin mining in Phuket.

Tin mining was the main industry on the island for at least half a century beginning around the turn of the 20th century and the mines attracted thousands of Chinese labourers (worker) who eventually settled on Phuket, creating the current cultural and ethnic mix that is so prevalent around the  Phuket island

the museum using a mix of beautifully painted Picture and actual objects to explained the story of how life was in Phuket's tin mining days.

    

in mining is a big educational all about the structure of the earth with information in English and Thai language. This leads through to the history of mining in general with models of stone age people banging rocks together.

Models of stone age people

The building is in the Sino-Portuguese style, built in a square around a large open courtyard .Museum is an interest in industrial processes, From the evolution of man and the beginnings of using rocks and mental as tools, to the mining  minerals for making metals that therefore led to the beginning of tin mining in Phuket.

The museum  will lead you to the different eras of tin mining and the processing  for sale to overseas traders and explaining how tin is turned into pure metal. The stretching along the right side of the building is a recreation of a street in Phuket Town around 1900, with shops, cafés, a San Jao, or Chinese temple, and a typical kitchen of the century .Originally Chinese immigrant families sifted for tin in rivers and using very simple equipment, this progressed to Open-Cut Mining by drilling or exploding into hillsides which used a lot of workers and little technology. Soil would be carried for cleaning and ore removed for processing.