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This list of museums in the U.S. State of Colorado identifies museums (defined for this context as institutions including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The museum moved to a new six-story building made from granite, steel and glass, [6] which was designed by Leandro V. Locsin Partners, led by Leandro Y. Locsin Jr., the son of the architect that designed the old Ayala Museum. It was formally dedicated at the 170th anniversary of the Ayala Corporation on September 28, 2004, and stands on the ...
Early ranch settlement (1880s) in the San Luis Valley, with a surviving period ranch house; located on a Nature Conservancy property near Great Sand Dunes National Park. 28: United States Air Force Academy, Cadet Area: United States Air Force Academy, Cadet Area: April 1, 2004 : Colorado Springs
The Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center and Museum (formerly the Anasazi Heritage Center) located in Dolores, Colorado, is an archaeological museum of Native American pueblo and hunter-gatherer cultures. Two 12th-century archaeological sites, [1] the Escalante and Dominguez Pueblos, [2] at the center were once home to Ancient Pueblo peoples. [3]
The Ancestral Puebloans lived and travelled the Four Corners area of the Southwestern United States from 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1300. Ancestral Puebloan peoples did not permanently live in the Manitou Springs area, but lived and built their cliff dwellings in the Four Corners area and across the Northern Rio Grande, several hundred miles southwest of Manitou Springs.
The Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center is an art center located in Pueblo, Colorado, United States. Founded in 1972 as a multi-disciplinary center for the arts, it features art galleries, performing arts, [3] and the Buell Children's Museum. The Center is a multiple time, multiple category winner at the Best of Pueblo awards. [4]
Del Norte Peak rises above the town several miles to the west. Relatively-speaking, it is located where the Rio Grande leaves the San Juan Mountains and enters the San Luis Valley, near its confluences with Pinos Creek and San Francisco Creek, respectively.
The Koshare Indian Museum is an art and scouting museum in La Junta, Colorado. [1] The building, located on the Otero Junior College campus, is a tri-level museum with an attached kiva that is built with the largest self-supporting log roof in the world. [2] The building was built in 1949. [3] The museum features works of Pueblo and Plains ...