Unusual museums in Pueblo
Looking for unusual museums & collections in Pueblo? These 6 are the genuinely strange ones — Louden-Henritze Archaeology Museum, Museum of Friends, Shrine of the Stations of the Cross (La Mesa de la Piedad y de la Misericordia) 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 Pueblo they'd never find on their own.
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Louden-Henritze Archaeology Museum
Downtown Trinidad sits on 80-million-year-old ocean mud — Pierre Shale, the floor of the inland sea that once…
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Museum of Friends
Painters Brendt Berger and Maria Cocchiarelli-Berger spent decades trading canvases with friends instead of s…
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Shrine of the Stations of the Cross (La Mesa de la Piedad y de la Misericordia)
San Luis has been Colorado's oldest town since 1851, and the mesa behind Main Street carries the Passion in b…
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Smokey Jack Observatory
At the west end of Main Street, across from the bowling alley, sits a 12-by-12-foot shed in Bluff Park whose…
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A.R. Mitchell Museum of Western Art
The building itself tips you off: a 1906 dry-goods store on Trinidad's Main Street, pressed-tin ceiling intac…
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Walsenburg Mining Museum
When 80-year-old labor firebrand Mary "Mother" Jones was arrested during the 1913 coal miners' strike, they l…