Entry No. 15 — the Pueblo file — filed under: records
Museum of Friends
“On a quiet Main Street it's often the busiest thing going.”
Painters Brendt Berger and Maria Cocchiarelli-Berger spent decades trading canvases with friends instead of selling them — swap currency of the '60s New York loft and Maui scenes. The stash, now 4,000-plus works, fills two floors of the century-old Roof & Dick building in Walsenburg, a coal town most drivers pass at 75 mph. Upstairs: Yoko Ono, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Janet Fish, beat-era ephemera. It's America's first counterculture museum, and on a quiet Main Street it's often the busiest thing going.
The move: Ride the Main Street elevator up to the permanent collection and each pick the one piece you'd have traded your own work for — compare answers over green chile downtown.
📍 Before you go There are two entrances: the Main Street door at 600 Main has an elevator, while the original Sixth Street staircase entrance (109 E. 6th) opens on request. Street parking along Main is easy. The ground floor holds rotating shows and the Made in Walsenburg shop; the permanent collection is upstairs, best seen by asking for a guided walk-through. Pair it with a hike or paddle at Lathrop State Park, ten minutes west on the Highway of Legends.
- 📍 Walsenburg
- 💸 $$
- ⚡ Up for anything
- 🌗 Indoors
Where: 600 Main St, Walsenburg, CO 81089
Hours: Added 2026-06-11 — confirm current hours before you go.
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last checked: 2026-06-11