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Cripple Creek District Museum, Cripple Creek, CO

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Cripple Creek District Museum

Local history museum in a former gold-mining town, with mining artifacts, photographs, minerals, and period buildings.

5th & Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek, CO 80813 · Cripple Creek, CO

About Cripple Creek District Museum

The museum presents the history of the Cripple Creek gold district through artifacts, historic photographs, mining equipment, and mineral displays, including gold specimens. Visitors can walk through old mining cabins and Victorian-era living quarters, and see the Gold Sovereign headframe and a collection of western firearms. The site also includes the Trading & Transfer Gift Shop, which the museum describes as the town's oldest building and which sells books and rocks. Founded in 1953, the museum operates five historic buildings, among them a former railway depot and an assay office.

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