Hands-On Mining Gallery

Put on your hard hat and come explore Juneau’s mining history and mining practices in our interactive Museum environment. Our hands-on mining gallery includes a variety of interactive exhibits including:

• Local rocks, minerals and ore.
• Illustrated books on local geology, mining history and the history of Tlingit use of rocks.
• An interactive cross-section of the Treadwell Mine cave-in of 1917.
• A working stamp mill replica and mill ball display.
• An interactive hydropower exhibit related to the Salmon Creek Dam.

In addition to the interactives, our hands-on mining room includes an Assay Lab Exhibit, a Hard Rock Mining Exhibit, a cross section of a hard rock mine, and digital historic mining photos. Children will enjoy trying on clothing, miner’s tags and hard hats while communicating through a mine phone.