The Kansas Underground Salt Museum is now open to explore the story of salt in a subterranean environment few have seen before. 
   The majority of the exhibits, programs, and activities will take place underground, within a working salt mine! The new museum will be located in Hutchinson, Kansas which was built above one of the largest salt deposits in the world. With more than 67 miles of mined caverns, the Hutchinson salt mine produces 300,000 tons of rock salt each year.

   Hutchinson's community leaders have long dreamed of creating a tourist attraction in the mine. No other museums exist within working salt mines anywhere in the nation. Hutchinson has a unique opportunity to provide a destination attraction with an exotic environment carved from salt deposits formed 300 million years ago, 650 feet below the Earth's surface. 
   There are just 15 salt mines in the United States; none of the others are accessible to tourists. This is a unique opportunity!