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Watts Museum to host Touch a Truck Event

A photo for a fire truck. Touch a Truck Mighty Machines and More. April 14, 10am - 2pm Saturday Events Series Spring 2018. Free fun for kids! Flying WV logo

The Watts Museum will host its Touch a Truck event on Saturday, April 14.

More than a dozen industry vehicles will be on display at “Touch a Truck: Mighty Machines and More,” an event hosted by the Royce J. and Caroline B. Watts Museum at West Virginia University on Saturday, April 14, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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The free community event will take place in Parking Area 41, located behind the Mineral Resources Building on WVU’s Evansdale Campus.

Children and their families will have the opportunity to touch, sit-in and explore real vehicles from a number of different industries. In additional to a variety of historic and current mining machines, some of the vehicles in attendance will include WVU’s EcoCAR, Morgantown Fire Department Fire Truck, a WVU Mining Extension mobile training unit, Mountaineer Area Rescue Group Mobile Command Post, and WVU Roads, Grounds and Recycling equipment.

“For kids who are fascinated by large trucks and machines, the opportunity to get hands-on with these vehicles will be educational and lots of fun,” said curator Danielle Petrak. “They will have the chance to climb aboard and experience the excitement of being behind the wheel.”

The Watts Museum’s current exhibit, “Man Power, Mine Power: The Evolution and Impact of Coal Mining Machines,” will be open during the Touch-A-Truck event, and visitors are encouraged to stop inside to view the exhibit. The Watts Museum is located in Room 125 of the Mineral Resources Building on the Evansdale campus of WVU.

The Royce J. and Caroline B. Watts Museum is dedicated to preserving and promoting the social, cultural, and technological history of West Virginia’s coal and petroleum industries through the collection, preservation, research and exhibition of historical objects and archival materials. The Museum is open Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, from 1–4 p.m., and by appointment. For more information, contact the museum at (304) 293-4609 or wattsmuseum@mail.wvu.edu.


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