The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities is the Denver metro area's seventh largest cultural attraction, devoted to all aspects of the arts. It offers six main stage and two children's theater productions a year, music and dance programs, and a broad range of workshops and classes in the arts and humanities.

The Butterfly Pavilion and Insect Center, the nation's only stand-alone insect zoo, is a 16,000 square foot facility covering 5 acres. The 7,200 square foot conservatory houses a tropical forest, complete with a babbling brook and over 1,200 butterflies representing over 50 species from nine countries. The Insect Center offers visitors the chance to hold tarantulas and get up close and personal with scorpions, black widows, giant cockroaches, centipedes and giant African millipedes. In addition to the indoor attractions, which include a snack bar and gift shop, there is a half-mile nature trail that winds through the five-acre facility. The trail includes a visit to a butterfly garden and a cactus garden.

Play and learn with hands-on Playscapes like ARTS a la Carte, CMD Fire Station No. 1 and My Market, investigate and discover with daily programming like Toddler Time, Super Science Sunday and Backyard Explorers, and party hardy with Trick or Treat Street, Noon Years Eve and a Hop, Skip & a Jump Start!  Come visit and see why so many children, newborn through age 8, bring their grownups to the Children's Museum of Denver!

Opportunities abound for children and families to explore the world of plants year round at Denver Botanic Gardens, one of the top botanical gardens in the America West. Enjoy the Children's Secret Path, Story Time in the Gardens, Family Days or enhance your family's visit with the use of a Family Guide, which provides fun activities and kid-friendly information about our gardens and plants.

The building which houses the Denver Firefighters Museum was built in 1909 and served as a working fire station until 1975. Today, the museum offers visitors the opportunity to explore the history of the Denver Fire Department, try on firefighting gear, slide down the pole, and race off to the fire! The museum has more than 20 hands-on activity stations that teach fire safety and prevention.

The Wildlife Experience is an interactive and ever-changing museum that instills respect for habitat and wildlife and inspires efforts to conserve through educational and entertaining experiences. Connecting visitors with wildlife through a variety of mediums encourages discussion about the importance of our natural resources all in a fun and educational environment!

Educational and interactive exhibits for children -- bringing families together in a safe environment that sparks imagination, inspires learning and nurtures growth through play! Offering great party packages, annual family memberships, field trip opportunities, and art, science and cultural programming year round!

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The Astor House Museum offers a look into the life of Ida Goetze, boarding house residents, Golden founders and pioneers, as well as Victorian material culture. Revolving exhibits pique your interest in a variety of subjects to further educate about the time period from 1867 to 1908.

A third of the working cowboys in the Old West were African Americans, many of them freed slaves who migrated west after the Civil War. Their forgotten story comes to life at the Black American West Museum.

The Boulder History Museum is located in the historic landmark Harbeck-Bergheim House on University Hill in Boulder and exhibits artifacts from our collection of more than 30,000 objects of historical significance donated by Boulder area families during the past sixty years. The Museum rotates its displays 2 or 3 times a year in hopes of providing new and interesting exhibits to showcase its collection and highlight Boulder's own unique history for the enjoyment of the general public.

Located on top of Lookout Mountain with spectacular views of the Rocky Mountains and the high plains of Denver, this is the final resting spot of the famous showman and frontier scout, Buffalo Bill Cody. The museum provides a well-rounded look at his exciting life, from Pony Express rider and buffalo hunter to the world's greatest showman, who often performed before the crowned heads of Europe.

Enjoy a distinctive house museum. Enter one of Denver's great historic homes, built in 1883 by Rocky Mountain News publisher Williams Byers and sold in 1889 to the family of William Gray Evans, an officer of the Denver Tramway Company. Guided tours take visitors through the elegant residence, richly filled with original Evans family furnishings. Also, a short film features the careers of these two pioneer Denver families and the city they built.

The Clear Creek History Park provides the public with history-based educational opportunities interpreting the Golden region during its formative years, from 1843-1900. Using skilled living history interpreters and other exhibit methods, the Park provides visitors with diverse hands-on experiences designed to enable the public to see and use restored structures and period replicas which illustrate the lives of late 19th century Golden area residents.

Imagine covered wagons, a rendezvous of fur trappers, Indian buffalo hunts, mining the Rocky Mountains, and life in early Denver. Discover the diversity of Colorado from its earliest inhabitants to its pioneer families. Explore Colorado's own museum with fascinating collections, detailed dioramas, historic photographs, artifacts, and more. Special galleries also feature changing exhibitions on life and culture in the American West.

The Geology Museum at the Colorado School of Mines started as a 'mineral cabinet' put together by Arthur Lakes, the first curator of collections, in 1874. Today the museum has approximately 50,000 minerals, fossils, gemstones, and artifacts.

The museum's collection includes more than 1,500 photographs, artifacts, pieces of equipment, and articles of clothing representing more than 130 years of Colorado skiing. Exhibits on display include a timeline of Colorado skiing, Olympic and World Cup memorabilia, 10th Mountain Division, the Evolution of Snowboarding, and the Spirit of America's Champions.

The Museum presents exhibitions and related educational events through which the emphasis of diversity, critical thinking, creative research, and training in museum practices. Activities serve the academic community of the University, the metropolitan area, and state-wide populations.

The Dairy Center for the Arts is a cultural arts complex founded in 1992, and it is the only place in Boulder, Colorado where one can experience dramatic theater, live music, dance performances and visual arts all under one roof.

Founded in 1893, the Denver Art Museum has more than 40,000 works of art, the largest and most comprehensive collection of world art between Kansas City and the West Coast.

This is the fourth largest museum of its kind in the nation with three floors of incredible exhibits about our planet and the creatures that live on it.

This scenic mountain ridge 12 miles west of Denver is the site where the world's first large dinosaur bones were discovered. The area has been designated a National Natural Landmark and preserves over 300 dinosaur footprints. Seventeen interpretive signs along a mile-long path describe and show how dinosaur bones look to scientists when they are still encased in rock. Visitors may view these signs and fossil remains at the ridge without a tour guide, but guided tours may be scheduled by calling the information center.

Exhibits feature the world's largest locomotive, the Union Pacific Big Boy, which measures over 134' long. Automobiles from 1899 to 1976 including Amelia Earhart's Kissel and Prince of Nepal's Rolls Royce, a Camaro Super Gas Drag Racer and other rare marques: carriage, bicycles, motorcycles, farm machinery, and more.

This former stage coach stop was constructed of hand-hewn pine logs in 1859 and is now operated as a 14 acre farm in southeast Denver. It was given its name because in 1859 it was four miles from the original townsite of Denver. There are self-guided tours of the barns and grounds. On weekends, there are horse-drawn stagecoach rides around the park. Numerous events are held throughout the year, including an old-fashioned Fourth of July celebration. Guided tours on the hour. Call for event information.

Georgetown Energy Museum is located in a fully functioning and operational Hydroelectric generating plant in Georgetown, Colorado. The plant is owned and operated by Xcel Energy. It has been in operation since1900. The museum includes exhibits and photographs and also household / consumer appliances relating the the early use of electricity.

Ghost Town Museum serves as a permanent example of what the wild west towns of 100 years ago might have been like. There are many hands-on activities for kids. Crank a butter churn, operate an old time arcade or nickelodeon. See a short film on the gold mining era or pan for real gold in the extensive panning areas, (seasonal).

 The oldest museum in Golden features three permanent exhibition galleries, displaying hundreds of artifacts. Changing exhibits each year highlight unique topics and people.

The Healy house and the Dexter cabin reveal what it was like to live in an early silver mining town. The Healy house was built but August R. Meyer for his wife Emma and features exquisite Victorian furnishings and lush gardens. The Dexter cabin was built by James V. Dexter, a mining investor, businessman, hunter, and collection of coins, gems and paintings. Tour two of Louisville's earliest houses at leisure!

This 17-room log lodge was placed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its unique construction. Hiwan's restored 1890-1930 era rooms illustrate a comfortable style of early mountain summer home living. As a local history museum, it maintains active craft and interpretive school programs as well as changing exhibitions, which are sponsored by the Jefferson County Historical Society.

The Hotel de Paris has been drawing people to Georgetown since it opened in 1875 then as one of the state's premier hotels and restaurants and now as a museum. The hotel was built by Louis Dupuy, a Frenchman who came to Georgetown in 1870 to seek his fortune in mining. When an accident ended Dupuy's mining career, he purchased a small bakery and within a few years had turned it into a luxurious hotel run on the lines of the Normandy inns he remembered from his childhood. The hotel is now owned and operated as a museum by the Colorado chapter of the Colonial Dames.

The Humphrey Memorial Park and Museum is a National Historic Landmark, offering primitive elegance in a two-story Victorian log home. An 1870s ranch, the museum houses world-wide family collections displayed just as the Humphreys enjoyed them.

A historic and social center park, Lakewood's Heritage Center features a look at 20th Century lifestyles. Located in beautiful Belmar Park, the museum currently has more than 10 historic structures, 30,000 artifacts preserved, a festival area, and an outdoor amphitheater. Museum Tours, Enrichment Programs, and Special Events.

This small gem of a museum has been in operation since 1974 and houses the nation's largest private collection of contemporary western art on public view.

This free museum in southeast metro Denver has two working farms depicting the 1860s when Littleton was first founded and one from the turn of the century. Visitors can tour the farmhouse and barns and see a variety of farm animals, from oxen and cattle to sheep, chickens, and ducks. The main museum has three changing exhibition galleries, a reference library, and a collections center that houses the museum's permanent collection of historical items from the region. A lovely lake and beautiful walkways can be found in the park surrounding the museum.

This striking facility features four exhibit galleries, three classrooms for special events and programs, and an outdoor courtyard, all in a beautiful building with public art, great views, and lots more to explore.

The Louisville Historical Museum occupies two historic buildings constructed between 1904 and 1908. The main building is historically known as the Jacoe Store and features a variety of artifacts and historic photographs that reflect the settlement and industry of Louisville, including coal mining and equipment. This building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its architecture and association with commercial development in Louisville. The smaller building, known as the Tomeo House, is interpreted as a coal miner's house, including a kitchen, bedroom, and sitting room.

This famous mine belonged to H.A.W. Tabor and features the one room shack where Baby Doe lived out her final years. The shack contains Baby Doe's meager belongings and the last known photograph of her. Closed during the winter months.

Costumed tour guides take visitors through the 1889 Victorian home of one of Colorado's most colorful characters, the legendary Unsinkable Molly Brown who entered folklore when she survived the sinking of the Titanic, showing great heroism in her lifeboat. She and her husband J.J. Brown struck it rich in the gold rush in Leadville and moved to Denver to enjoy a lavish lifestyle. Her house is guarded by stone lions and is filled with velvet, lace, beautiful dark wood, and period furniture.

Located on historic Santa Fe Drive, this small gem of a museum focuses on the art, history, and culture of Latinos in the Americas from ancient times to the present.

The Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver (MCA) is an innovative forum for contemporary art that inspires and challenges all audiences by encouraging both understanding and dialogue about art of our time.

This museum is located in the heart of the 1880's silver mining boomtown and offers a tribute to the men and women who pioneered the discovery of these valuable natural resources.

The ProRodeo Hall of Fame and Museum of the American Cowboy is the only museum in the world devoted exclusively to the sport of rodeo and its star, the rodeo cowboy.

Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site, the living history museum of the Pikes Peak Region, allows visitors to experience the lives of the people who lived in this area from the 1700s to the early 20th century. Costumed interpreters tell the stories of these people through four different time periods.

RMDRC is home to an awe-inspiring display of dinosaurs, prehistoric marine reptiles, pterosaurs and fish of North America's late Cretaceous. Visitors can enjoy a wide collection of fossilized animals, see a working fossil laboratory and enjoy life-restoration as well as skeletons of these fascinating animals. Exhibits change periodically. For the kids, Woody's Paleo Playground includes a dig site, activities like "create a dinosaur", dinosaur "rubbings" and educational videos non-stop.

The Rocky Mountain Motorcycle Museum and Hall of Fame was established in March of 1992 and is operated by volunteers. The museum focuses on the faces behind the wheels, the pioneers and contributors to the motorcycle world. It also holds over fifty antique and vintage motorcycles and motorcycle memorabilia and artwork.

Thematic quilt exhibits which change five times per year. Also two exhibit galleries and a gift shop.

The Stanley Museum presents detailed exploration of the significance of the Stanley steam car, its place in automotive and transportation history and an introduction to how it works.

Despite cable's role in revolutionizing global communications, technology and programming, the general public is largely unaware of the industry's considerable accomplishments. Since its inception, The Cable Center's mission has been to bring these great achievements of the cable telecommunications industry to the attention of the public. The Center tells the story of the cable industry, past, present, and looking towards the future through educational programs, library collections, and other industry-related works. At The Center, you can take a self-guided tour of the history of cable television, interact with exhibit kiosks, and experience the excitement of 21st century telecommunications.

Come learn for free about the history of the Jewish tradition with exhibits and programs scheduled throughout the year.

The museum collection consists of more than 250,000 objects encompassing the history of numismatics from the earliest invention of money to modern day. The objects include paper money, coins tokens, medals, exonumia, and traditional money from all over the world.

The Museum of Outdoor Arts is dedicated to bringing the vitality of the arts into the everyday life of the people of Colorado. Being a museum without walls, MOA's collection of outdoor sculpture reaches out to both the casual passerby and the serious art critic. Public art is displayed against a background of superb architecture, sweeping landscapes, and attractive urban environments.

The U.S. Olympic Complex in Colorado Springs is the headquarters for the U.S. Olympic Committee administration and the Olympic Training Center programs. Free public tours are conducted daily on a year-round basis by the USOC Tour Program staff and the U.S. Olympic Spirit Store offers Olympic sports merchandise and gift items unavailable elsewhere.

The Western Museum of Mining and Industry is a private, nonprofit museum teaching the importance of mining in the American West. Offers family programming, heritage lectures, and exhibit openings throughout the year.

Housed in a former Air Force hangar, the museum has a collection of 30 historic air and space vehicles.

The World Figure Skating Museum & Hall of Fame is the international repository for the sport of figure skating. The only institution of its kind in the world, the Museum is dedicated exclusively to the preservation and interpretation of the history of figure skating.