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Museum Hours
Free admission to the public.
Open 10:00A.M. to 3:00P.M. on:

October 24, 2009
November 7, 2009
November 21, 2009
December 5, 2009
December 19, 2009

Bucyrus Heritage Building
1100 Milwaukee Ave.
South Milwaukee, WI 53172


Museum
The Bucyrus Museum opened to the public in January 2009, located at Bucyrus' international headquarters in South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. The Museum explores the rich heritage of the machines, people and culture of Bucyrus and its ties to the community while educating guests on both surface and underground mining technologies.

Visitors to the museum will learn about Bucyrus, its history and its equipment through multimedia presentations and displays. Memorabilia, scale product models and historic photo's from the Bucyrus archives are some of the features of the museum. Visitors will also have the opportunity to test their skills as a shovel operator in the interactive shovel simulator, see a re-creation of an early underground mine and learn more about mining and its importance to our daily lives.

Whether you're a student, stakeholder, Bucyrus enthusiast or just interested in the spectacular machines Bucyrus manufactures and the rich history behind them - the Bucyrus Museum offers something for you to learn and enjoy.



Museum Features

Bucyrus Legend Video
Bucyrus machines have made it possible to build our cities, light our homes and fuel our cars.  Learn how Bucyrus has contributed to the world we know and experience today.

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World Without Coal Video
As a world dependent on coal as an abundant, affordable energy source, find out what life would be like without coal. This powerful video takes a closer look at how energy produced by coal affects and sustains life we've become accustomed to.

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495 Shovel Cab Interactive Simulator
The Bucyrus 495 High Performance electric mining shovel weighs 3 million pounds and can lift 240,000 pounds of raw material! Get your chance to be a shovel operator of a 495 shovel in the life-size interactive Operator’s Cab Simulator. Actual shovel cabs sit three-stories high; now you can operate one of the world’s largest machines without going to a mine site!


Underground Mine Circa 1900
Bucyrus underground machinery history traces back to 1826. Learn about underground mining as you peer into a life-size replica of a 1900 mine tunnel entrance that features tools and utility paraphernalia that were used at the time.
Shovel Dipper
Stand at the mouth of a life-size Bucyrus Shovel Dipper. One of our actual dippers is just too large and weighs too much to be in our museum; using a life size photo and 3-D modeling of the teeth you get the real sense of just how large an 82 cubic yard dipper really is. This is a great photo opportunity.


 
Scale Models of Bucyrus Machines
It’s not easy to envision the mammoth size of Bucyrus machines; so large they are only fully assembled in the field. Scale models of Electric Mining Shovels, Walking Draglines, and Blasthole Drills are displayed alongside pick-up trucks to appreciate the size of the machines that fuel our future. View models of the Bucyrus rail shovels responsible for digging the Panama Canal between 1904-1914; the same kind of rail shovels that Teddy Roosevelt sat on. S

 
Minerals of Mining
Bucyrus machines mine a multitude of minerals including coal, copper, iron ore, oil sands, potash and trona. See how these natural resources look at the mine site before they are manufactured and processed and learn how these minerals are used many everyday household products.

 
Bucyrus Memorabilia
Over 125 years of historical Bucyrus memorabilia can be found in the Museum. The Bucyrus baseball team equipment of the early 1900's, historical Bucyrus logos, lab equipment are part of a large collection of memorabilia that carries value because it carries the Bucyrus name.




 
Vintage Photos
Bucyrus owns an immense historical collection of photos that tells a proud story of the many lives of Bucyrus employees, machines, customers and world events. With over 1 million photos in its entire collection, Bucyrus historical landmarks like the Big Muskie, the visit of Teddy Roosevelt on a Bucyrus rail shovel at the Panama Canal and the huge Power Shovels of the 1970's and 1980's can all be seen.

 
"In Memory of..." Case
Honor the memory of past generations.  View items donated to the Bucyrus Museum, which once belonged to former Bucyrus employees. For more information or if you would like to make a donation, please contact us by clicking here.