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Free and Reduced Admission Programs at The Mining & Rollo Jamison Museums
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact:
Erik Flesch, Museum Director
The Mining & Rollo Jamison Museums
Phone: (608) 348-3301
Email: museumdirector@platteville.org
Free and Reduced Admission Programs at The Mining & Rollo Jamison Museums
PLATTEVILLE, Wis., June 17, 2022—The Mining & Rollo Jamison Museums is proud to announce two programs to achieve excellence in accessibility so that everyone can enjoy all the Museum has to offer — Museums for All and Blue Star Museums. Blue Star Museums provides free admission to active-duty military personnel and their families for the summer and Museum for All permanently reduces admission to a nominal fee of $1 for those receiving food assistance (SNAP) benefits.
Museums for All is a signature access program of the Institute of Museum and Library Services to encourage people of all backgrounds to visit museums regularly and build lifelong museum-going habits. The program reduces the cost of admission to a minimal fee of $1 per person, for up to four people, with the presentation of a SNAP Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) card. More than 850 institutions participate in the initiative, including art museums, children’s museums, science centers, botanical gardens, zoos, history museums, and more. These programs are part of The Mining & Rollo Jamison Museums’ broad commitment to seek, include, and welcome all audiences, a core goal of the Museum.
Blue Star Museums is a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and museums across America to offer free admission to the nation’s active-duty military personnel including National Guard and Reserve and their families each summer. The 2022 Blue Star Museums program will run through Labor Day, Monday, September 5. The free admission program is available for those currently serving in the United States Military–Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard–including Reservists, National Guardsmen, U.S. Public Health Commissioned Corps, NOAA Commissioned Corps, and up to five family members. Blue Star Museums began in order to improve the quality of life for active-duty military families. The program offers families a chance to visit museums this summer when many will have limited resources and time together.
These programs supplement the recently implemented Friends of The Mining & Rollo Jamison Museums Field Trip Scholarship Program, which offers funding for Museum admission and transportation for fourth-grade students from all schools in Grant, Iowa, and Lafayette Counties. This program has enabled record-breaking field trip attendance in 2022. Since May 1, over 1,200 students, teachers, and chaperones from over 20 schools have taken field trips, three times as many as previous years. This program was made possible by a grant from The Ann & Leo Stoll Jr. Charitable Trust and donations from the Platteville Optimist Club, Benton Community Development Corporation, and donors like you.
The Mining & Rollo Jamison Museums are located on Main Street in Platteville, Wisconsin, in the heart of the historic Upper Mississippi Valley lead-zinc mining region. Founded in 1964, the Museum is a nearly three-acre campus with scenic greenspace, the underground 1845 Bevans Mine, and a 1930s-era narrow-gauge mine train pulled by a 1931 Whitcomb locomotive. Follow The Mining & Rollo Jamison Museums on Facebook @MiningJamisonMuseum and visit our website at www.mining.jamison.museum for more information on current and upcoming programs or call (608) 348-3301 or email museums@platteville.org.
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