This list of

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s in the U.S.

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identifies

s (defined for this context as institutions including

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s, government entities, and private

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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, incorporated into the

History Colorado Center The History Colorado Center is a museum in Denver, Colorado, USA dedicated to the history of the state of Colorado. Construction on the $111 million building started on 19 August 2009. The museum opened on 28 April 2012 at 1200 Broadway, one block ...

* 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
* Mountain Bike Hall of Fame, 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 ...

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Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum The Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum is a non-profit aviation museum located in Southern Colorado. It was founded in the mid-1970s by former Pueblo City Manager Fred Weisbrod. The museum is made up of two hangars that were built in 2005 and 2011. ...

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Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum The Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum (WOTR) is located on the former Lowry Air Force Base in Denver, Colorado, United States. The museum preserves the history of Lowry AFB's operations from 1938 to 1994 in its collections, archives, and ...

References

External links

History Colorado websiteColorado Wyoming Association of MuseumsSan Luis Valley Museum Association
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Museums in Colorado

Defunct museums

Gallery

See also

References

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