Welcome to the Hanna Basin Museum Website
The purpose of this website is to help others connect to the past by collecting, preserving and sharing historical information about Wyoming's Hanna Basin. We invite you to explore how the Hanna Basin
came to be and how it touched the lives of many.
came to be and how it touched the lives of many.
Website Guidelines
- Our goal is to honor the history of the Hanna Basin by providing detailed and accurate information.
- We welcome comments and documented corrections to the content on this website.
- We also welcome any pictures, documents or information from our readers that might be helpful in our telling the Hanna Basin story.
- Sources all over the world send information, documents and images to the Hanna Basin Museum Website for its use. The Hanna Basin Museum Website does not knowingly use any copyrighted material. We welcome the reporting of any possible copyright infringements. Every effort will be made to correct all copyright conflicts that may arise.
- Individuals wishing to use documents or images from this website must first receive permission from the Hanna Basin Museum Website. Please contact us at HannaBasinMuseum@gmail.com (Attention: Bob)
Hanna Basin Museum and Cummings/Crawford Cottage (Image by Bob Leathers, 2015)
Hanna Basin Museum and Historical Society
P.O. Box 252
502 Front Street, Hanna WY 82327
(307) 325-6465
Summer Hours: Friday - Sunday 1:00 to 5:00 PM Winter Hours: Friday 1:00 to 5:00 PM
Summer hours start with Memorial Day and end with Labor Day.
P.O. Box 252
502 Front Street, Hanna WY 82327
(307) 325-6465
Summer Hours: Friday - Sunday 1:00 to 5:00 PM Winter Hours: Friday 1:00 to 5:00 PM
Summer hours start with Memorial Day and end with Labor Day.
Special visiting hours may be arranged by contacting Sunshine Solaas.
Sunshine Solaas, Museum Director
Contact information: HannaBasinMuseum@gmail.com (Attention: Sunshine)
Mike Armstrong, Public Relations Director
Contact information: HannaBasinMuseum@gmail.com (Attention: Mike)
April Avery, Museum Staff
Contact information: HannaBasinMuseum@gmail.com (Attention: April)
Contact information: HannaBasinMuseum@gmail.com (Attention: Sunshine)
Mike Armstrong, Public Relations Director
Contact information: HannaBasinMuseum@gmail.com (Attention: Mike)
April Avery, Museum Staff
Contact information: HannaBasinMuseum@gmail.com (Attention: April)
Stop by and view the new Coal Miner Exhibit from Sunshine and April at the Hanna Basin Museum
A New Coal Miner Display at the Museum (Sunshine Solaas, May 2020)
Welcome to the Museum from Sunshine Solaas
Video by Allison Hammond
About This Website
This website and its content is provided by Bob Leathers in cooperation with the Hanna Basin Historical Society.
Website contact information: HannaBasinMuseum@gmail.com (Attention: Bob)
Created: August 1, 2010
Last Updated: July 7, 2020
Last Updated: July 7, 2020
Video: The Hanna Miner
from Bob Leathers
Music by The O'Neill Brothers Group - Instrumental Country Guitar: Coal Miner's Daughter
Music by The O'Neill Brothers Group - Instrumental Country Guitar: Coal Miner's Daughter
New or Updated Content
July 2020
New on July 9, 2020
- Preview copy of a new Notebook: The Union Pacific Coal Company Mines at Hanna
Updated on July 3, 2020
Many new names
Many new names
- The People: A list of Hanna Basin men and women that served in the military