Tag
museum
43 Porch Notes tagged “museum.” Page 2 of 2.
History and culture - Washington County
An Easy, Free Afternoon: The Washington County Museum in Akron
Akron's free, year-round county museum keeps Washington County's pioneer and Native American story under one roof.
Read note ->History and culture - Fremont County
Cañon City has been a prison town since territorial days
Colorado chose Cañon City for its territorial penitentiary in the late 1860s, and that long corrections history is told at the Museum of Colorado Prisons in town.
Read note ->History and culture - Delta County
Cedaredge keeps Surface Creek's apple story alive
Cedaredge's Pioneer Town Museum and annual Applefest keep the orchard and pioneer history of the Surface Creek Valley in everyday view.
Read note ->History and culture - Broomfield County
Six WWII veterans started a museum that records Colorado's war stories
The free, volunteer-run Broomfield Veterans Memorial Museum keeps nine exhibit rooms, a 3,000-book military library, and hundreds of recorded veteran interviews inside the old Mamie Doud Eisenhower Library.
Read note ->History and culture - Rio Grande County
The county museum in Del Norte keeps the local story in one place
The Rio Grande County Museum and Cultural Center in Del Norte collects the county's history, from early rock art and Hispanic settlement to mining, ranching, and railroad days.
Read note ->History and culture - Bent County
The Rawlings Heritage Center is where Bent County keeps its story indoors
The John W. Rawlings Heritage Center in Las Animas gathers Bent County's history under one roof, from an early telephone exchange to the first bank, making it the indoor companion to the county's outdoor history sites.
Read note ->History and culture - Jackson County
Walden's pioneer museum lives inside an 1882 log cabin
The North Park Pioneer Museum fills an 1880s log cabin with three floors of artifacts that explain how this high basin became ranch country.
Read note ->History and culture - Cheyenne County
Walk Through the 1894 Jail a Famous Denver Architect Designed
Cheyenne Wells keeps a brick Romanesque jail from 1894, designed by Colorado's first licensed architect and now open as a small museum.
Read note ->History and culture - Gunnison County
The Crested Butte heritage museum lives in an old hardware store
Crested Butte's heritage museum is housed in one of the town's oldest frame buildings, a former blacksmith shop and hardware store, and tells the area's mining and town history.
Read note ->History and culture - Montezuma County
The big archaeology museum near Dolores changed its name in 2018
The regional archaeology museum near Dolores, long called the Anasazi Heritage Center, was renamed the Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center and Museum in 2018.
Read note ->History and culture - Custer County
The old town hall in Silver Cliff is now a museum
Silver Cliff's historic 1870s town hall and firehouse on Main Street holds the town's museum, where the county's mining-era story is kept.
Read note ->History and culture - Pitkin County
The Holden/Marolt site shows Aspen's mining and ranching side by side
On Aspen's edge, the Holden/Marolt Mining and Ranching Museum sits on a silver-era ore works that later became a working ranch, telling both stories in one place.
Read note ->History and culture - Grand County
The county's history lives in an old schoolhouse in Hot Sulphur Springs
Grand County's main history museum sits in a 1920s schoolhouse in Hot Sulphur Springs, alongside an early courthouse and other moved historic buildings.
Read note ->History and culture - Elbert County
The Elbert County Historical Society & Museum preserves local history in Kiowa
The Elbert County Historical Society and Museum in Kiowa collects photographs, artifacts, and local histories — a good first stop for research, while official land records stay with the county.
Read note ->History and culture - Denver County
City Park is old, big, and holds two major institutions
City Park is one of Denver's oldest large parks, laid out in the 1880s, and it surrounds both the Denver Zoo and the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.
Read note ->History and culture - Conejos County
Manassa keeps the birthplace cabin of boxer Jack Dempsey
The town of Manassa in Conejos County is the birthplace of heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey, the 'Manassa Mauler,' and keeps a small museum tied to his early life.
Read note ->History and culture - Adams County
The Adams County Fair and county museum keep the farm story alive
The Adams County Fair and the Adams County Museum at Riverdale Regional Park carry the county's farming and ranching heritage into the present.
Read note ->History and culture - Summit County
The Dillon Schoolhouse Museum was saved when the town moved
Dillon's 1883 schoolhouse was moved to higher ground when the reservoir flooded the old town, and it is now a museum run by the Summit Historical Society.
Read note ->History and culture - Mesa County
Three museums, one regional history
The Museums of Western Colorado run several heritage sites around Grand Junction and Fruita that together tell the valley's human and natural story.
Read note ->