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11 Porch Notes tagged “museums,” from counties across Colorado.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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History and culture - Delta County

Cedaredge keeps Surface Creek's apple story alive

Cedaredge's Pioneer Town Museum and its first-weekend-of-October Applefest carry forward the orchard heritage of the Surface Creek Valley beneath the Grand Mesa.

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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.

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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.

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