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Register your child for 2025 Spring Break Camp at the History Colorado Center! Give your little historian a week full of hands-on museum excitement as they step into the past and bring stories to life 🕰️ Space is limited! Claim your spot: historycolorado.jumbula.com/SpringBreak202…

Museum Basics is back for 2025! This virtual series offered by the Curatorial Services and Collections Access department, is designed for those who work or aim to work in cultural institutions. This year, we are offering 6 new classes! Register at: tickets.historycolorado.org/event/museum-b…

Looking for your next family adventure? Kids are FREE every day at the History Colorado Center! ❄️ We'll be open today from 10 AM to 5 PM! -- #denver #denvercolorado #colorado #thingstodoindenver #museum

***Travel Alert*** If you are traveling eastbound on I70, I76, Highway 50, 40, or 160, please do not plan to go as far as you can and then wait for the storm ride out. Hotels in these areas are BOOKED SOLID! If you are traveling east, we are asking you to delay heading out until this storm completely clears.

😱 There's still time to get tickets to Creeporado! Check out the oddest things in our collection, hear the ghost and true crime stories from our state's past, and browse the night market of mysterious wares September 27 | 7:00pm, History Colorado Center h-co.org/creep

👀 Hey weirdos...come to the museum after-hours on September 27th!👻 Check out the oddest artifacts in our collection, make a Victorian hair wreath, listen to Colorado ghost and true crime tales, and browse our night market of mysterious wares. Learn more h-co.org/creep

💡 Pursuing a career in publications, marketing, and/or communications? The History Colorado Center has a host of internship opportunities to hone these skills within the museum field! See our internship offerings at: historycolorado.org/internships-fe…

On Colorado Day, August 1, 2024, Dr. William Wei, professor of History at the University of Colorado Boulder, succeeded Dr. Claire Oberon Garcia as State Historian and leader of History Colorado’s State Historian’s Council. Learn more: historycolorado.org/press-room

We’re bringing textbooks to life! There's still time to take part in the #AmericasFieldTrip contest with @America250, offering students a chance to explore America’s landmarks from @Yellowstone’s trails to the @LibraryCongress’ vaults. Learn more ➡ america250.org/fieldtrip

Alpine lakes and mountain scenery in the Cerro Blanco Mountains (today known as the Sierra Blanca area of the Sangre de Cristos), 13,000 feet above sea level. Taken between 1871-1879. - History Colorado 84.192.1602 #colorado #coloradohistory #history #historicalphoto

History Colorado is pleased to announce that we have earned reaccreditation from the American Alliance of Museums. It’s an arduous review process that takes months to complete, and only 3% of museums across America receive this recognition. Learn more: aam-us.org/2024/04/02/aam…

🎓 Calling all history enthusiasts! History Colorado has a variety of new internship roles looking for applicants 📜💡 Check out the opportunities around the state and apply today at: historycolorado.org/internships-fe…

🍑Do you know of anyone that has worked in Colorado agriculture for at least 100 years? 🚜 Apply to the Centennial Farms & Ranches program to be recognized for their contributions to Colorado's agricultural legacy. Apply by May 1! Learn more: historycolorado.org/centennial-far…

April 11 @ 10am ❤️ Attend a poetry workshop at the Center for Colorado Women's History! We'll examine, through pantoums, what women wore while exploring the great outdoors, the changes in garments through labor, and more! Get tickets #event=pantoums-panties-poetry-month-workshop-week-2;instance=20240411100000?popup=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">historycolorado.org/events-experie…

Join us for a celebration of Natalie Diaz's stunning work about love, family, desire, fighting cultural erasure, and insisting upon a future: Postcolonial Love Poem 📆 April 24, 7 PM @ History Colorado Center Get tickets #event=bold-women-change-history-natalie-diaz;instance=20240424190000?popup=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">historycolorado.org/bold-women-cha…

For many Coloradans, today’s the day to celebrate Easter 🐣 Happy Egg Hunting! 🥚 🐥 💐 🌈 -- Image: Easter postcard, sent to “Cousin Clara Scavotto” between 1907 and 1922. History Colorado, 95.128.161 #Easter #HappyEaster #Spring #Colorado

This gelatin silver print entitled "Spanish Peaks" was taken by David DeHarport circa 1942-1943. The United States Congress designated the Spanish Peaks Wilderness in 2000, and it now has a total of 19,226 acres ⛰️ ⛰️ #coloradophotography #colorado #southerncolorado #photography

Despite our being occasionally fooled by 60-degree weather, March is typically one of our snowiest ❄️ months. But spring has just arrived. 🌞 Sunshine, seedlings, and short sleeves are on the horizon! - Photo by Ed Tangen. History Colorado, 99.270.5516

#DidYouKnow? Human beings have been interacting with the Great Sand Dunes for a long time. In fact, the oldest evidence of humans in the area dates back about 11,000 years. 📸 Photo by John Fielder. #nationalparks #greatsanddunes #colorado

Exhibition closing soon! Don't miss The Dry: Black Women's Legacy in a Farming Community, on view at the History Colorado Center until April 14 📸 Learn more: historycolorado.org/thedry -- Alice McDonald Collection, History Colorado 2022.27.2.165 #coloradohistory #blackhistory