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New museum development in Denver with focus on mining + architecture + construction history. Collection of over 42,000 objects. May Natural History Museum: Colorado Springs: El Paso: Front Range: Natural history: website, private collection of over 7,000 insects and butterflies McAllister House Museum: Colorado Springs: El Paso: Front Range ...
In March 2022, Colorado activists picked a psychedelic reform initiative (Proposition 122) out of three other similar initiatives and started a signature campaign to place the measure on the state's 2022 election ballot. By July 2022, the reform initiative made the Colorado ballot for the 2022 midterm elections. [45]
The United States Olympic & Paralympic Museum (USOPM) is a historical and cultural sports museum located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, [1] first opened on July 30, 2020. [2] The museum is part of the City for Champions development project in Colorado Springs, though it licenses the Olympic name and operates separately from the ...
State Highway 83 runs north–south from central Denver to northern Colorado Springs. State Highway 94 runs east–west from western Cheyenne County to eastern Colorado Springs where it terminates at US 24. US 24 is a major route through the city and county, providing access to Woodland Park via Ute Pass to the west and downtown, Nob Hill and ...
Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site is a living history museum (sometimes called an open-air museum) and farm located at Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. Staff and volunteers dressed in period-appropriate attire interpret life in the Pikes Peak region from 1775 through 1910. [ 2 ]
Satellite view from April 2004 (top of image faces north). New Half Pipe coaster under construction. (Lower left corner). As space was getting scarce at the original location of Elitch Gardens at 38th Avenue and Tennyson Street, the Gurtler family and their financial partners purchased a 67.7-acre (274,000 m 2) plot of land in the Platte River valley near downtown Denver for the price of $6.1 ...
Another exhibit, the museum's newest work, "Mariposa" by Oakland-based LED artist Christopher Schardt, features a massive flapping butterfly powered by a swinging bench and illuminated by more ...
In 1997, the Colorado State Legislature passed House Bill 1269 that made Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum Colorado's official air and space museum, [1] and the site of the Colorado Aviation Historical Society's Colorado Aviation Hall of Fame. After eight years, the museum's CEO, John Barry, announced his retirement in June 2021. [2]