COAL HERITAGE PARK & MUSEUM — Attraction in Assam

Just Wooow😲. First time I have ever visited into any museum, and this museum is very well established, clean and good for Photography. You can find 19th century items too here, including coins, stamps of every country, old telephones, old cameras etc.

The museum has been established for preservation of materials from the over 120 years of the coal mining history in this part of the world. The Margherita-Ledo coal mining story started in the year 1881 when British-owned Assam Railways and Trading Company (ARTC) discovered the black diamond in this part of the country and the actual mining had started in the year 1884. Since then whatever the company used along with various types of presently available tools, machines, vehicles, camera projectors, and all these antiques including important documents, photographs, etc., have been displayed in the museum for public viewing. The museum will also provide materials for research works in geology and mining. It may also be mentioned that the first Director of the company was Dr. John Berry White who also pioneered the first Medical School at Dibrugarh that has subsequently been upgraded to the present-day Assam Medical College. The inaugural function was also attended by Chief General Manager, NECF, Anil Kr Bora and General Manager Debashish Sarkar, besides other distinguished guests, officers and employees of NECF. Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from iron ore and for...

A fantastic place with a lot of artifacts and historical technological equipment, a must visit for the kids. The upkeep condition can get better because I observed a lot of equipment getting corroded due to lack of shelter and proper caretaking. A suggestion to Coal India- If you can devise some mechanism to employ students as an apprentice for a few Months or six months for upkeep of the Museum. This can be beneficial for all, The Students will get experience, certificate and stipend, The Coal India Museum will get face uplift and fresh energetic employees, The Visitors will get an enriching experience. If such a system is already in place, please get them motivated by talk, token or target.

Plz possess currency change if you are visiting, As the town is very small and people interested in such infrastructure are very limited which can be changed by the above...

It is a nice place, unique, there are flowers decorations, a big sculpture of dynasaur. But the most beautiful thing of this place is its demonstration for coal industry. Such as mine plan of coal, how an Open cast coal mines look like, a well built design of underground mines with several equipment, such as ventilation system, haulage way etc. The backside hall contain mainly information about coal, its history, usage, location etc. That hall is very important for study point of view. The front hall contain several equipment being used in coal mine from past. The hall also demonstrate a nice collection of coins and stamps of several places of the world. We enjoyed it. Hope you...