Unusual museums in Fort Collins

Looking for unusual museums & collections in Fort Collins? These 6 are the genuinely strange ones — Steamboat Spring & the Mineral Springs Walking Tour, Colorado Model Railroad Museum, Estes Park Memorial Observatory 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 Fort Collins they'd never find on their own.

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Steamboat Spring & the Mineral Springs Walking Tour For thousands of years the Steamboat Spring chugged like a paddlewheeler—loud enough that trappers came down… Steamboat Springs
Colorado Model Railroad Museum Housed in a former freight station in Greeley, the Colorado Model Railroad Museum centers on a 5,500-square-f… Greeley
Estes Park Memorial Observatory Sitting at the edge of Rocky Mountain National Park, the Estes Park Memorial Observatory runs volunteer-led p… Estes Park
Lee Maxwell Washing Machine Museum Tucked onto a farm three miles west of Eaton, Lee Maxwell's 20,000-square-foot building holds the Guinness-ce… Eaton
Seven Keys Lodge Key Collection What started as a guest tradition in the 1920s — Clarence Darrow left the first key in 1923 — has grown into… Estes Park
Wolverine Farm Letterpress & Publick House Wolverine Farm started as an independent press in 2003, moved into Fort Collins' Downtown River District in 2… Fort Collins