Museum Tour Guide

The Mining & Rollo Jamison Museums are recruiting part-time seasonal tour guides to offer guided mine tours and offer great customer service in the museum store. Are you passionate about the Driftless Area and local history and interested to share it? The museum is seeking guides for the May-October 2020 season. We offer flexible part-time schedules (14-35 hours per week), a fun work environment, and a reciprocal agreement with dozens of regional attractions offering free or deeply discounted admission to museum employees and guests. If you are interested in learning more or applying, please contact Museum Director Erik Flesch at (608) 348-3301 or museumdirector@platteville.org.

Guides will be responsible to educate and entertain participants on a one-hour adventure both underground and above ground. The Mining & Rollo Jamison Museums welcome more than 10,000 visitors per year to tour the underground 1845 Bevans Lead-Zinc Mine, to ride in a 1931 mine train, and to discover the local history of the Upper Mississippi Valley mining district through exhibit galleries. Hours are flexible. The job will require working some weekends. The applicant must be able to successfully complete guide training and pass a city-mandated background check.

The museum traces the development of culture in southwestern Wisconsin's Driftless Area starting with lead and zinc mining, rural life, and the establishment of community. Galleries display fascinating and nostalgic models, dioramas, artifacts and photographs interpreting stories and music of home, school, farm and civic life in the Platteville region. Don't miss the fighting squirrels!

The mission of The Mining & Rollo Jamison Museums is to continue in the pursuit of excellence in the areas of regional and mining history. To achieve that purpose, the museums are commissioned to be a custodian of the past; to interpret the rich lead and zinc mining heritage of the region, as well as to preserve, interpret, and display the artifacts that define Southwest Wisconsin.

Salary starts at $9-10 per hour.