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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.
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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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.
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 - 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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