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43 Porch Notes tagged “museum,” from counties across Colorado. Page 1 of 2.
History and culture - El Paso County
The Museum Built So Everyone Climbs the Same Ramp
Colorado Springs holds the licensed 'Olympic City USA' title, and its downtown U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum was designed so visitors of every ability move through it together.
Read note ->History and culture - Lake County
Leadville is home to the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum
The National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum in Leadville tells the story of American mining from a former school building in town.
Read note ->History and culture - Weld County
Fort Vasquez at Platteville was a fur-trade post on the South Platte
Fort Vasquez, an adobe trading post built in the 1830s near Platteville, is now a reconstructed museum site on the old South Platte trade route.
Read note ->History and culture - Clear Creek County
A French hotel in a silver town: the Hotel de Paris
The Hotel de Paris in Georgetown is a French-styled hotel and restaurant that Louis Dupuy created from an earlier building during the silver boom, now run as a museum.
Read note ->History and culture - Jefferson County
Heritage Lakewood tells the suburb's twentieth-century story
At Belmar Park, Heritage Lakewood preserves historic buildings and local collections that tell Lakewood's twentieth-century story.
Read note ->History and culture - Pueblo County
Pueblo began as a trading post on the old border
The city's name and origin trace to El Pueblo, an adobe trading post built in 1842 on the Arkansas River when it was the U.S.-Mexico border, now told at the El Pueblo History Museum.
Read note ->History and culture - Arapahoe County
Aurora History Museum gives the city a public memory center
Aurora's official city history museum collects and cares for the historic and cultural resources behind a sprawling, layered place.
Read note ->History and culture - Summit County
Frisco's name and museum come from its railroad and mining past
Frisco grew as a silver-mining and railroad town in the late 1800s, and the Frisco Historic Park & Museum keeps that story in a cluster of original old buildings.
Read note ->History and culture - Adams County
Commerce City's Conter center keeps city history in one public place
Commerce City's Conter Heritage & Cultural Center holds exhibits, archives, and local-history materials in one public place.
Read note ->History and culture - Boulder County
The Agricultural Heritage Center keeps Boulder County farm memory hands-on
A furnished 1909 farmhouse, barns, animals, and an heirloom garden keep Boulder County's 1900-1925 farm life touchable, not just remembered.
Read note ->History and culture - Yuma County
A Smithsonian Ice Age Bison Hunt, Displayed in Downtown Wray
The Wray Museum on the Eastern Plains holds a permanent Smithsonian paleo-Indian exhibit built around a real Ice Age bison-kill bone bed.
Read note ->History and culture - Prowers County
Big Timbers Museum gathers the Prowers County story
A mile north of Lamar on US 50, the Prowers County Historical Society's museum pulls Santa Fe Trail, Dust Bowl, and military history into one low-cost indoor stop.
Read note ->History and culture - Huerfano County
Francisco Fort Museum: La Veta grew up around Colorado's last original adobe fort
La Veta's Francisco Fort Museum sits inside an 1862 adobe trading post that the town grew up around, the last original adobe fort still standing in Colorado.
Read note ->History and culture - Lake County
Healy House and Dexter Cabin show Leadville's Victorian boom up close
The Healy House Museum and Dexter Cabin in Leadville are History Colorado heritage sites that preserve the Victorian-era homes of the silver boom.
Read note ->History and culture - Archuleta County
Pagosa's old waterworks is now its history museum
The San Juan Historical Museum in Pagosa Springs sits in the town's former waterworks building and keeps Archuleta County's local history.
Read note ->History and culture - Jefferson County
The free Golden museum with a moon rock and a room of glowing stone
On the Colorado School of Mines campus, a free earth-science museum holds an Apollo 17 moon rock, a cave of glowing minerals, and tens of thousands of specimens that explain why Golden became a mining town.
Read note ->History and culture - Yuma County
Under a Wray Cornfield, an Ice Age Bison Hunt
A rancher's bones turned out to be one of the oldest bison hunts in Colorado, and the Wray Museum is where you can stand close to it.
Read note ->History and culture - Teller County
Victor: the gold district's quieter, lived-in twin
A few miles from Cripple Creek, Victor is a walkable 1890s gold-boom town where brick streets, Lowell Thomas's hometown museum, and an overlook onto old and modern mining still tell the story.
Read note ->History and culture - Summit County
Barney Ford's house in Breckenridge tells a Black pioneer's story
The Barney Ford House Museum in Breckenridge preserves the home of a formerly enslaved man who became a businessman and civil rights advocate in early Colorado.
Read note ->History and culture - Saguache County
Saguache wears its 1874 main street and two museums on one slow walk
The county seat carries a Ute name, a 4th Street commercial core that grew from the town's 1874 founding, and two museums you can walk between in an afternoon.
Read note ->History and culture - Park County
South Park City in Fairplay is a town rebuilt from Park County's lost mining camps
South Park City Museum at the west end of Fairplay's Front Street is an open-air museum of historic buildings moved in from the county's vanished mining camps.
Read note ->History and culture - Pueblo County
The Egyptian Mummy on Rosemount's Third Floor
Climb to the top floor of Pueblo's 1893 Thatcher mansion and you reach the McClelland Collection of world curiosities, an Egyptian mummy among them.
Read note ->History and culture - Hinsdale County
The Hinsdale County Museum keeps Lake City's mining-era story
The Hinsdale County Museum in Lake City, run by the county historical society, gathers the area's mining-era history in an 1877 downtown building.
Read note ->History and culture - Douglas County
The old Castle Rock train depot is now the town's history museum
Castle Rock's historic Denver & Rio Grande stone depot now houses the Castle Rock Historical Museum, a free place to learn the town's railroad and quarry story.
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