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History Museum/Sterling
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Whether
you are a recent arrival to the area, planning your next vacation, or
have lived in Western Colorado for years, we invite you to visit the
Museum’s History Museum and Smith Education Tower, which opened May of
2000. Our building has more exhibits, more history, and more fun for all ages! Immersive exhibits, “remove the glass” from between the visitor and the artifacts offering you opportunity to “step into history.” You can listen to the antique siren as you inspect the 1921 LaFrance fire truck and view one of the country’s finest collections of Southwest pottery in our adobe villa. Learn about our mining heritage when you explore the full-size, WAAIME uranium mine with its interactive sound and exhibit stations. Audio stations, located throughout, teach the Ute language and take you time traveling in our historic phone booth. Our new 2,000 square foot temporary exhibit area features ever-changing displays. Our firearms collection is one of the region’s finest. The Thrailkill collection contains Winchesters, carbines, and pistols carried by lawmen and outlaws. Also exhibited are a Fifteenth Century Spanish cannon once owned by Queen Isabella of Spain, the Fort Crawford diorama featuring a full-size Gatling gun, and a display documenting the life and times of “Colorado Cannibal,” Alferd Packer. The Sterling T. Smith Education Tower offers a 360° view of our impressive surrounding geography. Tower top displays include a working weather station, and provide information on downtown historic preservation efforts, regional archaeology and geology.
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