Bisbee Queen Mine Attraction

The vision for a new Bisbee Queen Mine cultural experience is to diversify its audience, attract new visitors to Bisbee and serve as an economic driver to help invigorate the local community. The planning process addresses community alignment, support, and advocacy. The master plan outlines exhibits and programs that create a meaningful historical, science and technology driven narrative for the mining operations that occurred there. Included are educational curricula and goals to support the local school system, and recommendations for new revenue sources and mechanisms to better integrate local service providers into the project. Ultimately the project aspires to incorporate opportunities for research and job skill development through partnerships with the University of Arizona South, and the Rural Activation and Innovation Network of Arizona (RAIN).

Roles & Responsibility

+ Led and integrated content, exhibition, programmatic, and facility planning efforts

+ Co-directed community engagement meetings and surveys

+ Coordinated market research and fundraising feasibility studies

+ Developed visitor experience concepts and art-directed fundraising visuals

+ Created functional space program and space planning options

+ Coordinated financial analysis findings with planning effort

+ Produced interim and final planning documents

+ Led project management

Project Design Team

Gallagher & Associates – Exhibition Design & Financial Analysis

Mimi Quintanilla – Community Engagement

Gail Anderson + Associates – Organizational Planning

NPL Impact - Fundraising Feasibility

Bruce MacPhearson - Illustrations