Telluride Historical Museum

The Telluride Historical Museum is a small museum with big ambitions. Help us keep Telluride's rich history and heritage alive and vibrant for current and future generations of residents, guests, and visitors to the region.  

This year, your gift will support one of our exciting new initiatives:

Collections Storage Upgrades:
For years, the Museum has stored a number of its artifacts at an offsite facility over 60 miles away.  That will change in 2023, as we will be moving that offsite collection to a new, better facility much closer to home.  Your gift can help support the move by allowing us to purchase new shelving and storage materials and help fund the move itself, and the ongoing care and maintenance of our artifact collection.

IT Upgrades:
The Museum calls the historic Hall's Hospital home.  Built in 1896, it sometimes feels like we're still using the original IT equipment.  Your gift can help us purchase updated computer and phone equipment, so that our tools better match our ambitions.

Educational Programs:
The Museum has long been known for its hands-on, minds-on, fun, and educational/school field trip programming.  This programs are typically offered to the community for little or no cost.  Your gift can help ensure that the programs remain free or low-cost and help us purchase supplies for, make upgrades to, and introduce new offerings alongside our current programming slate.

Spanish Language Translation:
The Museum strives to be a welcoming organization of our entire community of guests.  To help decrease barriers to participation/visitation and allow Spanish-speaking members of the community to feel more comfortable at the Museum, we are currently working translating our gallery companion audio tour and interpretive panels to Spanish.  Your gift can help make this ambitious project a reality.  

If any of these initiatives tickles your fancy, please let us know and we will allocate your donation to fund of your choice.

As always, the only way we can even dream of completing exciting projects like these is because of the incredibly generous support of people like you!  

Thank you and we hope to see you at your Museum soon! 

Testimonials

A must see for any visitor to Telluride- a hidden gem that takes about 2 hours to thoroughly enjoy! - Amy M. via Facebook

Excellent collection of local history. Great place to learn about the history of the surrounding area. - Ryan R. via Google

This museum is awesome and the people are amazing! There is so much incredible history in Telluride! - Olivia C. via Google

It is an awesome place to know more about the town of Telluride. The kids love to go there and discover something new every time and the people who works there are amazing! If you come to Telluride don't leave without coming there! - Vincent A. via Google

This was a very nice experience and I wish I'd come here on my first trip to Telluride because it really gives you a deep understanding of the history of how the town was built, cultural background of the area, and the staff are lovely and active vets are admitted free. - via Trip Advisor

It's a great museum and must see if you are in Telluride. They keep it updated and change it regularly. It is very interesting about what happened in this little town since the the Native Americans first lived here. Telluride became a mining town, and is now a ski town. It's out of the way but worth it if you ever get a chance to visit. - via Trip Advisor

My 2nd visit. I love this place. I love the history, the old building - its full of stuff. well worth a visit, it can be a quick half hour or a half day thing if you get as carried away as I did reading everything - and I mean everything! - Helen V. - via Trip Advisor

Great staff, wonderful history and even a member cat. What could be better? - Sabrina O. via Facebook

An excellent collection of artifacts from this historic area, a must see! - Russ L. via Facebook