The guided tour costs $22.26, lasts 1hr, 45 minutes, and includes General admission to the grounds. The actual time underground in the mine is 35 minutes. Plan on 4 hours if you take the mine tour, read everything, and look at every object. The museum is all outside. It is several acres absolutely filled with old mining equipment and a re-created pioneer town with brick roads and wooden plank sidewalks consisting of 20+- buildings with period contents. The mine tour definitely adds to the experience, and I would recommend it, but youll still have plenty to look at if you dont go in it.

We didnt get to stay long but the stop was very worth the time! We didnt get to see the miniature area it was closed off... Maybe next time. We will go back for sure!

My granddaughter came up from San Diego shes 13 and very interested in where gems come from. We were lucky enough to book an underground mine excursion. The guide was great, informative, considerate and kind. He tried to make it easy for the folks like myself that know absolutely nothing about mining. He showed us where not to step, have us plenty of time to ask questions.

Great little re-creation of a mining town with lots of cool equipment. Whanted to do the underground tour but my daughter was too little. Money still well spent just to walk around the museum.

Interesting tour, some great info and a swing through an old mine. Definitely pay for the tour! You will get so much more out of the experience.

Had no idea there were so many mines below Butte. Our guide was awesome and going 100 down was a great experience

Great museum. It really makes you appreciate the difficulties of previous generations. I never realized what hard work out was for my grandparents. This place is very interesting and it gives you great appreciation for history and the people who allowed us to live such cushy lives today.

Great place, they have put together many era appropriate displays. The underground tour is worth it - Michael did a great job.

Such an amazing moment from history. We love teaching our kids about Butte. It is historically rich!

I did not know this was an outdoor walking museum. The terrain is very unlevel and rough. For anyone with mobility issues this museum is NOT for you. I went with my wife and children. The wife needs a walker to see the site. They charged full admission fees and because of the mobility issues we were able only to see a small portion of the museum. I would recommend assistance carts for those with mobility issues. NOT ABLE TO TAKE TOUR BECAUSE OF MOBILITY ISSUES. I would recommend ADA compliance.The buildings are locked and artifacts are only able to be viewed through building windows. A person cannot touch history. A person cannot feel history at this place. This is like walking through a town and not being able to go into the shops.Not worth the money.

This was an interesting tour, but I thought Matt, our guide relied too much on our questions when giving the information. So if you go, ask a lot of questions and you will get the answers. Matt, our guide appeared to really know the information. But over all it is worthwhile going on this tour if you are in Butte, MT. It was very interesting to go so deep into the earth and see the actual tunnels where so many miners have worked for over 100 years.

We had fun walking through all the history. Once we realized the place was filled with relocated buildings and not just replicas is was even more I interesting. It was worthwhile.

Went in the 100’ tour yesterday and loved it. Tony was our guide and really knows his stuff on local mines and mining history. The tour was not rushed lasted 1.5 hours. The museum is a nice recreation of what an 1800’s mining town would be like. If your into mining history this tour is a must.

We had an excellent tour of the Orphan Girl Mine led by Michael. The World Museum of Mining focuses on the mining in Butte although there are displays that weren’t used in the Orphan Girl Mine. The displays in the mine are interesting. They have an eclectic collection of items on the property-some vintage from the era and town and some from other areas. Much restoration is still needed on the mines and grounds. Included in the modest price is admission to the doll house/doll displays and rock display from around the world. Worth a stop if you’re in the area.

Very cool place. Very knowledgeable guide, funny and great with all ages. Fun little old timey town you can walk through and see how life was years ago. There is also a scavenger hunt for the kids. Interesting history of how life was for the miners.

This was my second time going to the museum. I love the old town they have set up. The first time I was there I did the 65 feet tour which was great. This time I did the 100 feet tour and the tour guide was a volunteer previous miner, it was amazing! He had great stories and even showed us how the equipment worked. Thank you for the great tour!I also liked how they give you a dog tag when you purchase a tour, great souvenir

It was so interesting. So much history.

Neat place. It needs some care, but understand the elements are not always kind. I recommend the tour...very informative!! Jake did a great job!

Loved our experience! The owners running the museum are very nice and respectful. They have a nice rock and mineral collection. Under ground tour but remember to call ahead for reservations. Old mining equipment, toy collection, antiques, memorabilia, etc...

Our guide was knowable about a mine operation was easy to understand and took his time explaining the working great place to bring the family

Absolutely worthwhile if youre into mining history, or even if youre not. Down into the depths of the mine you shall go and see, smell and feel what the original miners did. Great tour by a knowledgeable guide that is fifth generation from a family of Butte miners. Cool museum with lots of relics and a mineral display. Dont miss it if youre lingering in Butte for a day.

Very fun place to stop by but would recommend doing a tour. My husband and I went through and walked but did not have a tour and felt it wouldve been a lot more informative if we did. Nonetheless it was still a very neat place to stop in.

My favorite museum! The underground tour takes about and hour and a half for the 100ft tour, and it is well worth the time and money! A great stopping point between Glacier & Yellowstone!

I was a bit hesitant on this tour. Very glad we did this. Matt was our tour guide & very informative and answered questions. Had a good sense of humor also! We only did the 65ft tour as the 100 was sold out. Also has a old miner town set up you can look at & walk around.

Really brings history to life. Very interesting and instructive. The tour down in the mine was fantastic.

Great tour by Jim today. Informative and educational and a great way to understand the blood, sweat and tears that miners had to deal with on a daily basis.Thank you Jim.Tap her light. Highly reccomend.

Lots of fun. Not as scary as I thought it would be, going down the mine a hundred feet underground. Everything is old, and you could only see the above ground attractions from the outside, but they have some neat stuff. If you like rocks, go to the mineral museum at the Montana tech college.

Great tour guides and very kind staff. Extremely educational under/above ground tours. Tour is about 1.5 hours and good shoes are necessary for the underground tour. As of June 12, 2020 masks are required for all tours to prevent spread of COVID-19, masks for sale if you dont have any available. 12/10 would visit again.

This is a neat place with an awesome underground tour. The guide was a born and raised in Butte and very knowledgeable about the history of the mine. The buildings are all from the old town and you can walk into the church buildings, but only get to observe others from outside. Ive read some saying this is a waste of time, but it is not. The history is amazing and you also can walk up one of the head frames which is neat. My respect for the miners only grew as I leaned more and more. The history of Butte is tragic and beautiful at the same time. They had electricity before New York and how advanced they were blows my mind.

Amazing!!!!! Clint is an amazing tour guide if your getting a tour make sure you get Clint as your tour guide!.... He is very smart and knows his things about the mining history.

If you are the least bit interested in mining history, this is a must visit place when in Butte Montana. The staff was very friendly and exhibits very interesting.

Great place to visit and spend the day with the family. I havent gone on the underground tour yet, but hopefully next time I visit I will.

I loved everything about this place!! Bring the whole family, theres something for everyone!

Very fun. I brought my 8 and 5 year old and we had a blast.

Nothing like you think not much there too expe sive for what it is... staff not the friendliest

Awesome museum and tour of the orphan mine

I love learning about Butte history! So much fun to learn about Butte and to see actually artifacts.

Very nice. Much larger then expected. I will go again. And it is hundreds of miles from home.

Cool and interesting place to visit and learn about our mining past. If youre big into steampunk/industrial, this is the place for you! Plan to spend a whole day to look around the buildings and exhibits. There is a lot to see!

I love the little town set up inside, we were there is August 2019 and they were adding some history from the Columbia gardens. A must see when you go to town!

Very cool place to spend your time. Rich in history.

Did the 100 ft tour. Lived it and our guide was awesome!

Unexpected fun as a museum. A faithful recreation of early day American industrial history.

Awesome! Great walk through history.

Awesome old-town feel. This place was well worth the price of admission. I highly recommend!

A day visit is just not enough time to see every thing this place had to offer.

Unique place to visit! Not entirely wheelchair accessible. A person using a wheelchair will need a significant amount of help. There is a lot to see and read about. Could easily spend a few hours here reading and learning. Would definitely recommend visiting. I would recommend to the staff to find a way to provide better lighting to the individual businesses on display. Very friendly staff! Would enjoy a guided tour next time!

We visited the museum in the morning on Aug.10th.2019. The museum is good and we think it worth to visit but we have a very bad experience from the museum staff, a lady at the receptionWhen we arrived the museum there was just a lady at the reception. We visited many other parks, museums and usually the reception staff would greet us and ask if we need any help. When we arrived this museum, the lady just looked us with cold face and didn’t say anything to us. We said hello and asked her if she could give us some brief introduction about the museum and some suggestion for the visit, she almost said nothing and seemed reluctantly to give us any information.We still bought the ticket and thought it might because people have different personality, some people are warm and some people are cold.But when I finished my visit and I stood at the entrance to wait my husband and son. At that time I found the lady at the reception was warmly greeting a Caucasian people and they were talking and laughing. It seemed she was totally a different person from what I had saw an hour ago.I still tried to look at this matter in good faith. I thought it might because we were not very good at English and the lady felt difficult to give us detailed information so she said little. So I still said “Thank you” to the lady before I went out of the room. The lady replied “Thank you” to me in cold manner and she even didn’t bother to look up her head. She just kept looking down to her paper. There just only she and me in the room at that time.So I totally understood we were not welcomed in the museum just because my Asian face. We are Chinese living in Canada and we travelled during the summer vacation in U.S. It really the worst experience for us during our this year’s trip.I sincerely hope the museum could post on their website or other place to state they have own preference for visitors. So we will know we are not welcomed in advance and we can avoid to visit.Thanks!

Just a fantastic experience! We took the 100 foot mine tour and just loved it! We really enjoyed the talk and learned so much about mining, the history of mining and of Butte. We now have such respect for the men who worked those mines and put their life on the line. Highly recommend this tour

Great place to visit with kids! Do the underground tour and be fascinated with the mining bells. I got to ring too! Provides kids with cool way to understand mining in Montana.

So much history in such a small area. Make sure to spend the extra few $ for an underground mine tour. Unfortunately the railroad ride has been removed, but it is still one of the coolest things we did all summer.

Went here for treat street for Halloween and the kids always get ample candy. The wait is long, but definitely worth it.

Great place for a fun family day

Amazing! Very well done!

Must visit for Montana history! Dress for the day, a lot of outside.

Great family place, history preserved. Even the 16 yr old teenager who is hooked on electronics enjoyed himself. Great lessons on our forfathers hard life.

Lots of cool stuff, great place to take the whole family

A great educational museum. It gives a great insight into the miners lives and how copper mines work. A must with school age children.

Love this attraction and cant wait for our annual visit

So much fun

Very interesting mining history...

Visited Butte today and went to the mining museum. Really enjoyed our tour with Tony. He was very informative and also added humor. A lot of history to see in the museum town.

To be able to walk through the history of my hometown is priceless

Great day spent at the world museum of mining. We did an above ground and below ground tour with fabulous tour guides. This is a Butte must see!

Better than expected. Some of the exhibits are showing their age, but if you have the time and willingness to explore the whole museum you will have a new found respect for the historical aspect of the mining industry. The underground tour was great, my kids favorite part of the museum.

This is one of the most interesting tours in Butte! Lindsay is an extremely knowledgeable guide.

Very interesting place... we took a self guided tour because we missed the last mine tour. That would have been the best!

Awesome tour! Super informative and awe inspiring to learn what the miners went through. Cute mock town to wander through.

I was a little short on time and then you get to spend as much time in the mining areas I would have liked to. It was also lightly raining what was well worth the entrance price.

Great experience, knowledgeable staff.

Really enjoyed learning about mining. We took the 100 ft underground tour and would recommend it. The tour guide was great and seemed very knowledgeable and personable.

The museum itself is ok. What really makes the visit worthwhile is taking a tour underground.

Awesome place to include in a Tour of Butte , especially if you take in other Mines and the local history for the day . Make sure to do everything , an underground Mine Tour and walk around the grounds to look at everything . You never know what you might find peeking into the windows of the Shops and Businesses in the Ghost Town . Friendly Staff .

Recreated mining town, but not a lot of information about mining. You cant walk into the shops so you have to peek in thru the window. Nice rock collection

Fabulous place to visit.. educational. Will visit again whenever we travel to Butte Montana in the future.. awesome!

It was a great experience! An open air museum, you walk through history itself. We took the 100ft tour and it was more than worth it. Our guide Raven was amazing, very knowledgeable and passionate about mines! Would love to visit for more.

A good underground tour. Lor of stuff to look at and read. Great rocks and mineral collection.

It’s fun and a bit scary to take the underground tour.

We did the 100 tour and it was amazing, we will likely go again in the extended future. Tour guide and front desk person were extremely nice and knowledgeable. Nice rock museum and replica mining town to look at.

Hubby toured underground .. he loved it.

Great tour!

Nice museum. Friendly staff. Worth to drop by and learn about local history.

Good presentation of history of mining in butte, nice mineral samples and mine tour.

Cool place and youll learn history too.

Great tour! Everyone should experience this

Haven’t got to visit the mine yet we just moved to Butte in January. Retired Underground coal miner from Pa. looking forward to a tour and learning the history of y’all’s town.

Excellent guide who actually woked at the mine before it shutdown.

Amazing (and slightly confusing? but awesome) doll collection. Amazing (and scary) scarecrow. Cool how you can touch railroad equipment and explore the mining town without a tour guide holding your hand.. Sad that a lot of the buildings are ones you can only look in through the windows, but.. Gorgeous location. Id definitely consider coming here again

Awesome underground mine. And awesome musuem to explore.

Definitely more interesting than it appeared. Had things for all ages to enjoy!

Overpriced and run down.. to call yourself the WORLDS museum of mining you would think it would be more interactive and not so shabby looking.Big Pit in Wales UK is free!!!!

What a fantastic bit of history. A must see adventure. Plan to spend sometime. It is worth it.

Plenty of old buildings and mining equipment to check out. There is a mine tour but I havent taken it, just heard good things about it.

So informative. Really takes you back in time!

This place was so much fun & so much to look at. You could spend HOURS here. They had a really cool room full of old Doll house, another room full of rocks, plus the whole whole old town set up with each building full stuff.

Mine shaft is closed due to coronavirus

Interesting exhibits, good way to get to know a little more about the history of mining.

We visited and went on the 100 mine tour. It was amazing and we loved our tour guide. The walking tour in the mining town was fun too but I suspect getting a tour would always be a better choice. Totally recommend this!

Every One Must Go And See This Place. Wonderful.

Lots of fun.