Museums
Art, history, and the stories of the Rockies.
4 places
U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum
$$200 S Sierra Madre St, Colorado Springs, CO 80903
The most-awarded museum design of the past decade — a gleaming downtown landmark with hands-on exhibits where you can ski-jump, sprint, and shoot arrows against Team USA athletes. The most fun museum in town, hands down.
ANA Money Museum
$818 N Cascade Ave, Colorado Springs, CO 80903
One of the largest numismatic collections in the world — ancient Greek coins, gold rush nuggets, and a 1913 Liberty Head nickel that's worth more than most houses.
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College
$30 W Dale St, Colorado Springs, CO 80903
A 1936 Art Deco landmark with a serious collection of Southwest and American art, a working theatre, and free admission every Friday afternoon.
Western Museum of Mining & Industry
$$225 North Gate Blvd, Colorado Springs, CO 80921
A 27-acre indoor-outdoor museum on Colorado's mining heritage, with working steam engines, a pair of live burros to visit, and guided tours that fire up the century-old machines a couple times a day.