Employment Opportunities

Make Your Mark at The Mining & Rollo Jamison Museums | City of Platteville! Are you enthusiastic about natural history, cultural history, science and industry — and interested in sharing experiences with intergenerational audiences from around the world? The Museum is cultivating professional staff members to provide a new generation of interpretation about our unique geologic region and 13,000 years of human ingenuity, inquiry, enterprise and development.

The Mining & Rollo Jamison Museums is a department of the City of Platteville as well as a mission-driven entrepreneurial and membership organization located in the heart of the scenic Driftless Region within the Main Street business district of historic Platteville, Wisconsin. The three-acre museum campus includes scenic greenspace, pollinator gardens, a real underground mine from the pre-Civil War Lead Rush, a railroad amusement ride pulled by a 1931 mine locomotive, and picturesque interpretive structures listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Museum celebrates Wisconsin’s know-how and can-do spirit as expressed in the mining region where Wisconsin and its Badger State identity was born. Since its founding in 1965, the Museum has welcomed hundreds of thousands of visitors, a third of them school children. The Museum is Platteville’s leading tourist attraction and the largest in the tri-state area (Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa) interpreting the cultural heritage of the famous Upper Mississippi Valley mining district.

We offer flexible schedules, a fun work environment, excellent training, and a reciprocal agreement with dozens of regional attractions offering free or deeply discounted admission for museum employees and guests. See below for current opportunities and application instructions.