Join the Telluride Library for one or all of a mini book club series featuring three non-fiction books about the region! August 5th at 5:15 pm - Dead Run: The Murder of a Lawman and the Greatest Manhunt of the Modern American West by Dan Schultz, discussion led by author, Dan Schultz Evoking Into the Wild and The Monkey Wrench […]
Join the Telluride Library for one or all of a mini book club series featuring three non-fiction books about the region! July 14th at 5:15 pm - Tomboy Bride: One Woman’s Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West by Harriet Fish Backus, discussion led by the author’s grandson, Rob Walton and Telluride Historical Museum […]
Craft Victorian inspired Valentines with the Museum.
Join the Museum and other area partners at the Wilkinson Public Library for El día de los niños (Children's Day), an annual celebration of children, families, and reading. Visitors will also meet other families, learn about local educational resources, and connect children to the world of learning. The Museum will have a historical-themed photo booth […]
Everyone knows that the United States won the Space Race and sent a man to the Moon, but many people don't know that modern rocketry got its start in World War II. Join us on Tuesday, March 24, 2:30 p.m., at the Wilkinson Public Library to learn more about the fascinating history of rocket science! […]
Join the Telluride Historical Museum for After School with the Museum: Secret Codes with Naval Flags! In World War II, naval ships used technology to talk between ships that was silent, effective, and hundreds of years old - flags! Now it's your turn! Students (ages 8-15) will make their own naval flags, spell out a […]
The radar operator of a No. 220 Squadron Boeing Fortress at Benbecula in the Hebrides, May 1943. On January 27, at 3:30 p.m., at the Wilkinson Public Library, the Museum will host: "Radar: what is it and how does it work?" Students will learn the fascinating history of the technology that changed the world, then […]
What are archaeologists learning from the remarkable pottery crafted by the ancestral Pueblo Indians? Around 200 C.E., Pueblo peoples in the Southwest began producing pottery—utilitarian brown wares, and later, exquisitely painted white wares. Dr. Kari Schleher, an expert in the study of ancient pottery in the Southwest, will discuss how the study of pottery is […]
Join local vintage guitar expert and collector Tom Nading for a discussion about American guitar building during the Second World War and how wartime production changes helped to establish the guitar’s prominence in 20th Century American music. More about Tom Nading After studying the piano and trombone through elementary school, Tom Nading picked up the […]
Join us as Dr. Tom Romero, Associate Professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, explores the struggle for human and civil rights in Cold War Colorado. Dr. Romero will cover the legal and cultural history of race and racism in our state: KKK involvement in the 1920s, anti-Mexican sentiment in the 1930s, […]
What do Martha the last passenger pigeon, a fragment from Plymouth Rock, and Julia Child’s kitchen have in common? Each of these objects tells an important story about the diverse history of America. These and 98 other objects are part of The Smithsonian’s […]
More about Dr. MIchael Amundson Dr. Amundson is a professor of history at Northern Arizona University. His research focuses on the Atomic Age in the American West. As a relatively new field, Atomic History incorporates all things nuclear including such fields as community, environmental, cultural, social, political, and scientific history. Dr. Amundson is also a […]
