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s in the
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museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...
s (defined for this context as institutions including
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es) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Non-profit and university
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are also included. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e.,
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Museums in Colorado


Defunct museums

* Air Services Museum, Colorado Springs * Climbing Tree Children's Museum, Montrose, closed in 2011 * Colorado History Museum, Denver, closed in 2010, administered by
History Colorado History Colorado is a historical society that was established in 1879 as the State Historical Society of Colorado, also known as the Colorado Historical Society. History Colorado is a 501(c)(3) organization and an agency of the State of Colorado un ...
, incorporated into the History Colorado Center * Dinosaur Depot Museum, Cañon City, closed in 2013, exhibits moved to Royal Gorge Regional Museum and History Center * International Bell Museum, Evergreen, owner died in 2006, collection donated to
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* Kit Carson Museum, Las Animas, collections now at the John W. Rawlings Heritage Center * The Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar, Lakewood, closed in 2009 * Morrison Heritage Museum, closed in 2004
Morrison Historical Society
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Mountain Bike Hall of Fame The Mountain Bike Hall of Fame (MBHOF) was founded in 1988 to chronicle the history of mountain biking. Formerly located in Crested Butte, Colorado, it relocated to Fairfax, California in 2014 and became part of the Marin Museum of Bicycling. Si ...
, moved to California in 2014 * Museum of Western Art, Denver * Trianon Museum and Art Gallery, Denver, closed in 2004 * Vintage Motos Museum, Denver * World's Wonder View Tower,
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, closed in 2013


Gallery

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Denver Art Museum The Denver Art Museum (DAM) is an art museum located in the Civic Center of Denver, Colorado. With encyclopedic collections of more than 70,000 diverse works from across the centuries and world, the DAM is one of the largest art museums between t ...
. File:PuebloMuseumColoFront.JPG, Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum. File:Front of Wings Over the Rockies.jpg, Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum.


See also

* Aquaria in Colorado *
Botanical gardens in Colorado Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...
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Nature Centers in Colorado Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physics, physical world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomenon, phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. ...
* Observatories in Colorado * Wikimedia Commons: Museums in Colorado


References


External links


History Colorado websiteColorado Wyoming Association of MuseumsSan Luis Valley Museum Association
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