How to Buy Tickets for The Mining & Rollo Jamison Museums

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The museum's website offers a Buy Tickets option on its home page, and that is the entry point to use for booking a visit. Before buying, confirm two things: the museum is closed November 1 through April 30, with the tour season running May through October, and the mine train ride operates weather permitting. Tickets are for the guided underground mine tour and campus visit; the site does not publish prices or say whether advance online purchase is required, so treat the Buy Tickets link as the starting point and confirm details there.

Step-by-step: buying tickets

  1. Go to the museum website at mining.jamison.museum.
  2. Find the "Buy Tickets" link on the home page, shown alongside the "Your Underground Adventure Awaits!" heading.
  3. Choose your visit date inside the tour season (May–October). If you are planning a trip between November 1 and April 30, the museum is closed; check the Programs and Special Events section for winter programming instead.
  4. Complete the purchase through the ticket flow linked from the site. The site does not list prices, so the amount due will appear during the ticket process.
  5. Keep your confirmation and bring it on the day of your visit.

Expected result: a confirmed ticket for your chosen date, which you present on arrival for the one-hour guided mine tour.

What your ticket covers

Experience Details
Underground mine tour One-hour guided tour of the 1845 Bevans Lead-Zinc Mine, reached by a 90-step incline
Mine train ride Ride in an ore car pulled by a 1931 Whitcomb locomotive; weather permitting
Exhibits and grounds Galleries in the 1863 Rock School and 1905 Hanmer Robbins School, plus outdoor greenspace, pollinator garden, and picnic grounds
Museum store Rock and mineral specimens and regional-history gifts

The mine tour and train are the two experiences most likely to fill a visit, so plan around the tour time you book.

Common snags to check before you pay

  • Off-season dates. Tickets for a November–April visit will not work because the museum is closed then. Look at winter programming separately.
  • Train availability. The train runs weather permitting, so a ticket does not guarantee a ride on a rainy or snowy day. The mine tour is the core booked experience.
  • Accessibility of the mine. The entrance is a 90-step incline with changing temperature and humidity underground; consider whether everyone in your group can manage the descent before buying.
  • Group or special-event visits. The site points to a Programs and Special Events section; if you want a school group, event, or winter program, check there rather than the standard ticket link.

If you only want to browse

You do not need a ticket to use the website to plan. The home page describes the three-acre campus near the world's largest "M," the history of the Upper Mississippi Valley Mining District, and the Rollo Jamison cultural-history collection. Use that material to decide whether the mine tour fits your trip, then return to Buy Tickets when your dates are set.