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Families

  • Things to Do
  • Interactive Fun
  • Learn About History
  • Museums
    • History Colorado Center
    • Byers-Evans House Museum
    • El Pueblo History Museum
    • Fort Garland Museum & Pike's Stockade
    • Fort Vasquez Museum
    • Gerogetown Loop Historic Mining and Railroad Park®
    • Grant-Humphreys Mansion
    • Healy House Museum & Dexter Cabin
    • Trinidad History Museum
    • Ute Indian Museum
    • Grant-Humphreys Mansion
  • Plan Your Parties & Events
  • Get Involved

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Museums

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

History Colorado Center, rendering Tryba Architects
History Colorado Center

The History Colorado Center’s hands-on and high-tech exhibits take you back in time, connecting what WAS to what’s NEXT.

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 Placita
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 & Pike's Stockade

Fort Garland served as a U.S. Army post from 1858 to 1883. Nearby is Pikes Stockade, a fortification reconstructed where Lt. Zebulon Pike and his men wintered in 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.

Family on the train
Georgetown Loop Historic Mining and Railroad Park®

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

Grant-Humphreys Mansion
Grant-Humphreys Mansion

Built for a former Colorado Governor in 1902, this Beaux Arts showpiece offers an elegant setting for weddings, receptions, holiday parties, meetings, and retreats.

Dexter Cabin
Healy House Museum & Dexter Cabin

Leadville's storied past comes alive through 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.

Tipi at Ute Indian Museum
Ute Indian Museum

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