Colorado History Museum
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 The Italians of Denver
April 20, 2007 - July 6, 2008
Experience this new and innovative community exhibition at the Colorado History Museum. In the mid 1800s, the first documented Italian immigrants in Colorado were drawn to the claim of wealth and land ownership in the West. Becoming miners, business owners, farmers and railroad workers, by 1910, Italians represented nearly 14 percent of Colorado’s total population. After the 1940s, economic and social prosperity resulted in many being absorbed into the greater American culture. Yet, the cultural ties remain. The museum and members of Colorado’s Italian American community have collaborated together to collect family and business artifacts, photographs and oral histories. The result of these efforts now culminates in The Italians of Denver exhibition and companion publication, along with new research archives and artifacts, now a part of the Colorado Historical Society’s collections.
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Tribal Paths: Colorado's American Indians,1500 to Today
Now Showing
In 2005, the Colorado History Museum opened a landmark exhibit, Ancient Voices: Stories of Colorado’s Distant Past, which actively explores the culturally rich lives, art, architecture and technology of Colorado’s first peoples. The museum has picked up in time where Ancient Voices left off with Tribal Paths: Colorado’s American Indians, 1500 to Today.
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James A. Garfield Velarde
Jicarilla Apache Leader |
Tribal Paths examines trade networks that linked Colorado’s American Indians with groups from the Pacific Ocean to the Mississippi River, encounters with newcomers, the removal of tribes to reservations, the boarding school experience, and American Indian civil rights—as well as contemporary American Indians’ enduring connections to their cultures.
Together, these two exhibitions present one of the most comprehensive interpretive museum experiences available in the Denver metro area about the state’s American Indians.
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Ancient
Voices: Stories of Colorado's Distant Past
On view Downstairs on the (M) Level
This exhibit actively explores the
culturally rich lives of ancient peoples in Colorado. Each gallery,
enhanced by the Colorado Historical Society’s collection of
American Indian artifacts, helps the visitor understand various
groups of people who lived in Colorado—the Paleoindians, who
lived around 8,000 years ago, the Apishapa of southeastern Colorado,
and the ancient Puebloans. Visitors are immersed in the
day-to-day lives of these first inhabitants through multi-sensory
environments, from an evocation of a Puebloan cliff dwelling to a
bison kill site on the plains. The Ancient
Voices exhibit utilizes images, voices,
and music to acquaint visitors with the geography, wildlife,
vegetation, and the long human presence of what we now call
Colorado.
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