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    • Trinidad History Museum
    • Ute Indian Museum
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Guides to the past

Sharing our heritage

Museums statewide

Museums and Historic Sites

 History Colorado museums and historic sites offer fun and authentic encounters with the past.

History Colorado Center, rendering Tryba Architects
History Colorado Center

Opening April 28, 2012, the History Colorado Center will house a state-of-the-art museum, a research library, State Historical Fund offices, the Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, unique event spaces, and more.

Byers-Evans House Museum
Byers-Evans House Museum

An elegant historic house in the heart of Denver, home to two of the city's most prominent families.

El Pueblo History Museum
El Pueblo History Museum

A museum complex showcasing Pueblo and southeastern Colorado history at a museum, adobe trading post, and the Scenic and Historic Byways Information Center.

Fort Garland Museum
Fort Garland Museum and Pikes Stockade

Fort Garland served as a U.S. military post from 1858 to 1883. Further south sits Pikes Stockade, a reconstructed fortification built where Lt. Zebulon Pike and his men spent the bitter winter of 1807 before being arrested by Spanish forces.

Fort Vasquez Reenactor
Fort Vasquez Museum

The site of an 1835 fur-trading post featuring a re-created adobe fort and gallery exhibits.

Train coming through the aspens, photo Dan Adler
Georgetown Loop Historic Mining & Railroad Park®

Ride into history aboard the Georgetown Loop Railroad and tour an authentic silver mine.

Healy House Museum
Healy House Museum & Dexter Cabin

Leadville's storied past comes alive through and an 1878 Greek Revival home and a surprisingly elegant log cabin built a year later.

Bloom Gardens
Trinidad History Museum

Landmark homes and lovely gardens in the distinctive El Corazon de Trinidad Historic District.

Ute Indian Museum Tipi
Ute Indian Museum

In the heart of traditional Ute territory, the Ute Indian Museum tells the story of Colorado's longest continuous residents.

History Colorado Center Opening April 28, 2012!

Time lapse video of the building of the History Colorado Center.

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