Unusual museums in Durango

Looking for unusual museums & collections in Durango? These 6 are the genuinely strange ones — Dave Sipe's Folk Art, Rio Grande Southern Railroad Museum (Galloping Goose No. 5), Notah-Dineh Trading Company & Museum and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Durango they'd never find on their own.

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Dave Sipe's Folk Art Dave Sipe has spent 35-plus years attacking dead county wood with a chainsaw and a Skilsaw, and somewhere alo… Mancos
Rio Grande Southern Railroad Museum (Galloping Goose No. 5) The broke Rio Grande Southern built seven Galloping Geese — half bus, half locomotive — because running a rea… Dolores
Notah-Dineh Trading Company & Museum Since 1961 the Leighton family — traders in the Four Corners for four generations — have run this Cortez post… Cortez
Telluride Historical Museum Tucked inside a sturdy 1896 miners' hospital listed on the National Register of Historic Places, this Smithso… Telluride
Southern Ute Cultural Center & Museum A creek runs through the middle of this 52,000-square-foot tribal museum — an architectural choice that signa… Ignacio
Crow Canyon Archaeological Center They'll hand you an actual 800-year-old potsherd and let you turn it over in your fingers — no glass case, no… Cortez