Featured Events
Lamplight Lone Tree Cemetery Tour
This evening tour explores the iconic Lone Tree Cemetery in the ambiance and eeriness of lantern light. Perfect activity for Halloween season! Led by Telluride Historical Museum’s Director of Programs and Exhibits, this tour tells Telluride’s history through the stories of the rugged people that lived, worked and were buried here.
Halloween on the Hill
4:30 -7:00 p.m. trick or treat on N. Fir street. Head to the Haunted Hospital afterwards if you feel brave enough!
News
Closed for the Fall Off Season
The Telluride Historical Museum will be closed from October 14th through December 2nd. Please contact the Museum at (970) 728-3344 or at info@telluridemuseum.org for more information on off season Museum tours and upcoming programs and events. Otherwise, we look forward to seeing everyone on December 3rd!
Cemetery Tours Return!
Beginning this Friday, September 13, tours of Lone Tree Cemetery will be taking place weekly. Learn Telluride’s past via the stories of its most notable residents. Meet at the Cemetery at 1:00 p.m. each Friday.
Members: $10 Nonmember $15
Remembrance Day, A Celebration of History and Life
Guests, visitors, and cemetery supporters will interact with historical characters and learn the fascinating tales of the earliest residents who lived, worked, and died here as well as celebrate and honor recent community members during this immersive evening of storytelling in Lone Tree Cemetery.
The Telluride Historical Museum Presents “An Evening with Ken Burns”
On Sunday, Aug. 25 at the Michael D. Palm Theatre. The award winning filmmaker Ken Burns will introduce Episode 5: The Rising Road from the PBS television documentary miniseries, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, and hold a brief Q&A after the screening followed by a book and DVD signing.
Tickets can be purchased at http://bit.ly/THMKB2019tix and all proceeds benefit the Telluride Historical Museum.
Hike Into History, Ophir: Waterfall Canyon
We are partnering with Mountain Trip for our second Hike Into History of the summer. This time we will be exploring Waterfall Canyon in Ophir with Kaylee Walden. Click to learn more!
Location
201 W. Gregory Ave.
P.O. Box 1597
Telluride, CO 81435
(at the top of North Fir Street) | Directions
Summer Hours
June 3rd, 2019 -October 13th, 2019
Monday-Saturday, 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Sunday, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Thursdays until 7:00 p.m. (Locals get in free!)
Winter Hours
(December 3rd , 2019 - April 4th, 2020)
Tuesday-Saturday, 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Locals get in free on Thursday!
