Colorado History Museum
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 Imagine a Great City: Denver at 150
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One hundred and fifty years ago, rumors of easy riches lured hundreds of gold seekers to the confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River. Prospectors from 1858 on never panned fortunes from those waters, but genuine bonanzas in the mountains encouraged thousands more to rush to Denver. Many left empty-handed, but those who stayed imagined a mile-high metropolis—what would become the political, commercial, and cultural hub of the High Plains and Rocky Mountain West. Come explore History Colorado’s latest exhibitionImagine a Great City: Denver at 150, and discover the events, people, communities and politics that shaped Denver over the past 150 years into a shining jewel today on Colorado's Front Range.
Tribal Paths: Colorado's American Indians,1500 to Today
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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.
Ancient
Voices: Stories of Colorado's Distant Past
Now Showing
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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