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Mining Museum-Rollo Jamison Museum

405 East Main Street, Platteville, Wisconsin

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Size: 154 x 38

Phone:

+1 608 348 3301

Website:

wicip.uwplatt.edu

topics: local history, history, general, 19th, century, 20th, American, agriculture, local history. more on MuseumStuff.com

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Rollo Jamison Museum is fascinating, with thousands of items to learn about and look at. more on Yahoo! Travel

My favorite part of the museum was the mine tour, which takes you 80 steps below the surface to an old lead mine. more on TripAdvisor

The gift shop had a pretty good selection (minerals, books, old-fashioned toys) and the prices were very reasonable. more on Yahoo! Travel

The thing that impressed me the most with this museum is that they let you try out some of the exhibits, like the player piano, an old auto horn, a typewriter and more. more on TripAdvisor

Good value for the relatively low admission price! more on Yahoo! Travel

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The museum is a tourist trap. The mine is a dark hole. You can't see very much at all. The museum is one floor and explains ... more on Yahoo! Travel

The reasonable fee ($8 adults, $4 children) included several different tours, and kept us interested for hours. The mine tour took us down 90 steps into an original 1845 Lead Mine, where we learned about lead and zinc mining. Back ... more on Yahoo! Travel

Wonderful experience for adults and kids alike. Learn valuable and interesting information on an entertaining tour of lead mine. Rollo Jamison Museum is fascinating, with thousands of items ... more on Yahoo! Travel

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We've recently moved to Platteville and I love studying local history. I was pleased to see that Platteville had the Rollo Jamison museum. It is chocked full of history from one end to the other. Brin ... more on TripAdvisor

The Rollo Jamison Museum shows what life was like in the late 1800's and the turn of the century. I was with a 15 year old and a 6 year old and they were fascinated with the displays, especially that ... more on TripAdvisor

This place has been on my quirky-visit list for years, but when I finally got around to visiting I was pleasantly surprised at the variety of things there were to see. Apparently only a small fraction ... more on TripAdvisor

The thing that impressed me the most with this museum is that they let you try out some of the exhibits, like the player piano, an old auto horn, a typewriter and more. We didn't have time to see ever ... more on TripAdvisor