THE
MINING
MUSEUM

ROLLO
JAMISON
MUSEUM





Museum Department - City of Platteville
405 E. Main Street, P. O. Box 780
Platteville, Wisconsin 53818-0780
Telephone (608) 348-3301
Email: museums@platteville.org
  Special events are held throughout the year at the museum.

  February
Feb. 6, 7, 13 and 14  10:00 - 4:00
Click for images of Winter Toy Train Exhibit 2010 at the Rollo Jamison Museum. Volunteers worked with museum staff to fill the East Display Gallery with antique and modern toy trains. Running and static displays in a variety of gauges had something of interest for everyone - 10 x 16 G-scale layout of North Am. freight trains and Standard, O, On30 and HO gauge layouts, play area with wood floor trains. Click here for pictures from 2008

February and March
  2010 Rollo Jamison Museum Winter Lyceum Speaker Series
  Free admission and refreshments
    February 28 Johnny Reb and Billy Yank: Songs of the Civil War Presented by singer and storyteller Bob Welch and fiddler Laura Hess, this program brought to life both the soldiers of the Confederacy and the Union. This program was co-sponsored by the Grant County Historical Society
    March 14 7:00 p.m. An Evening with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt   Presented by Jessica Michna, historian and actor.  Born into the opulent wealth of America's "Golden Age", Eleanor grew from the shy, homely orphan into a confident, driven woman., a champion of civil rights, author, and stateswoman.
     March 28 7:00 p.m. A Smelter's Life: Archeological Investigations at the British Hollow Lead Smelter.  Presented by John Broihahn, Wisconsin State Archeologist. Investigations at the scotch-hearth British Hollow Smelter site revealed it may have been constructed as early as1838. Its appearance reflects strong influences from the British Isles and may be the only intact scotch-hearth furnace in the U.S.
Straw Furnace in Platteville

July
   Heritage Day at the Rollo Jamison Museum, July 4, 2010 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.  A day of games, demonstrations, special exhibits, music and food served up by the Platteville Music Boosters.  Bob Welch will perform Johnny Reb and Billy Yank: Songs of the Civil War. The Wundo Band will play in the afternoon.  Come and see demonstrations of the hit and miss engines, antique tractors, and a car display by the Southwest Wisconsin Auto Club.

      

    
September
  Platteville's Historic Re-enactment September 10-12, 2010. Museum staff and dozens of re-enactors give visitors
 a taste of life in the late 18th and early 19th century. The museum sites tell about early exploration and lead mining and
 demonstrate bullet making and give visitors an opportunity to try a variety of games played both by children and adults.
  The event is organized by the Platteville Histroric Re-enactment Committee. Friday is the School Day. 
November    Jamison Museum Association Annual Meeting and program on    Wednesday November 4, 2009 was held at the First National Bank Community Room. At 8:00 Jim Hess and Gary Hess presented a program on the Frank Hess and Sons Cooperage.  This cooperage was the largest in Wiscsonsin and operated from 1904 until 1966. We all enjoyed a delicious dinner of homemade pasties prepared by Gary and Eileen Engelke. Money raised by the dinner helps support new exhibits for 2010.

 December
       Twas the Night Before Christmas 2009  Exhibits included a 14’ Victorian tree, pre-WWII Standard Gauge toy trains, period room settings, children’s activities, and music. 

  

    See scenes from 2009 'Twas the Night Before Christmas 2008 Holiday Feasts & Festivities, 2007 Here Comes Santa Claus! and Heritage of Christmas from 2006 at these links.