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The Mining Museum and Rollo Jamison Museum are located side by side at the eastern end of Platteville's Downtown Historic District. The museums include an underground tour of the 1845 Bevans Lead Mine, a ride in a 1931 mine train aboveground, and exhibits on Platteville, area history and especially the history of lead and zinc mining in the Upper Mississippi Valley.
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Heritage Day July 4 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
Demononstrations, Music by The Wundo Band, Children's Games, Antique Tractors, Hit and Miss Engines, Songs of the Civil War, Silent Auction for Rountree Gallery, Music Boosters Food Stand
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New Exhibits for Spring
Platteville wheelwrights, cigar factories, and the service organizations, Kiwanis and Optimists
Don't Fence Me In: Fences, Real and Implied
Located in East Display, this exhibit looks at some of the solid and not so solid things that have created barriers for people over the years.
Hours
The Mining Museum and the Rollo Jamison Museum are open daily 9-5 May through October. Self-guided galleries and office are open Monday-Friday 9-4, November through April. Group tours available year 'round by appointment.
Tickets
Tickets which include admission to both The Mining Museum and Rollo Jamison Museum are Adult $9.00, Seniors $7.75, Child 5-15 $4.50 with under 5 free, Family $24 (up to two adults and two or more dependent children 5-17). May through October.
November through April admission to the Rollo Jamison Museum and the Mining Museum building is $4 adults and seniors and $2 for children 5-15. This does not include the mine.
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The Rountree Gallery, located on the second floor of the Mining Museum building, features work by area artists. Admission to the gallery is free during posted hours. Call 608-348-6719 or email rtgallery@yousq.net for more information.
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For more information contact:
City of Platteville Museum Department
405 East Main Street, P.O. Box 780
Platteville, WI 53818
(608) 348-3301
email:museums@platteville.org |
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Museum Annual Report
click here to read the 2009 Museum Report
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