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Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum 🏛️ Museums Lloyd's Pick

Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum

Free

215 S Tejon St, Colorado Springs, CO 80903

Free local-history museum housed in the 1903 El Paso County Courthouse — the original courtroom is preserved, and exhibits cover Pikes Peak, the Ute people, and city founding.

U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum 🏛️ Museums

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 🏛️ Museums

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 🏛️ Museums

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.

Ghost Town Museum 🏛️ Museums

Ghost Town Museum

$

400 S 21st St, Colorado Springs, CO 80904

A walk-through reconstruction of an authentic 1880s Colorado mining town — saloons, blacksmith, jail, and general store, all built with original buildings rescued from the mountains.

May Natural History Museum 🏛️ Museums

May Natural History Museum

$

710 Rock Creek Canyon Rd, Colorado Springs, CO 80926

A delightfully old-school roadside museum on the way to Cheyenne Mountain — 8,000 tropical insects, including the giant herculean beetle that's the museum's mascot.

ProRodeo Hall of Fame 🏛️ Museums

ProRodeo Hall of Fame

$

103 ProRodeo Dr, Colorado Springs, CO 80919

The official hall of fame of professional rodeo — saddles of legendary cowboys, animal-athlete inductees, and an outdoor arena with a live longhorn exhibit.

Western Museum of Mining & Industry 🏛️ Museums

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.