The Mining & Rollo Jamison Museums

Your underground adventure awaits! Tour the 1845 Bevans Lead-Zinc Mine, ride in a 1931 mine train (weather permitting), and discover the local history of the Upper Mississippi Valley mining district. The Museums trace the development of lead and zinc mining in the Upper Mississippi Valley using models, dioramas, artifacts and photographs. A guided tour includes a walk down into the 1845 Bevans Lead Mine, a tour of the headframe building and hoist house, and an above-ground outdoor train ride pulled by a 1931 mine locomotive. The Rollo Jamison Collection exhibits include artifacts, stories and music of home, farm and family life and nostalgic local cultural history.

Exhibits

New in 2022, "13,000 Years of Driftless Ingenuity" exhibit highlighting the museum’s Native American tool collection. The exhibit tells a story of time and place, and how the cycles of each year informed different activities of survival and culture-building, based on Native American knowledge of the Driftless Area and the invention of new technologies using its rock, plant, and animal resources.

Guided Mine Tours at 10:30, 12:00, 1:30, and 3:00.

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