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The Mining Museum and Rollo Jamison Museum

Name: The Mining Museum and Rollo Jamison Museum
Address: 405 East Main Street, Platteville, WI, 53818, US

405 East Main Street

Platteville, WI 53818

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608-348-3301

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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