January 19 • Noon – 1 pm Whitman Educational Center 248 S. Fourth St. Our January program will be about the history of Mesa County Libraries from its early […]
Museum of the West — Curator’s Corner
New Discovery About the Use of Flint in Early Spanish Colonial Wheellock Pistols By Director of the Western Investigations Team/Curator of History David P. Bailey Copyright© 2016 All Rights Reserved Please […]
Rob Goes to Washington
On Oct. 31, 2016, I was invited to speak in Washington, D.C., to the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the USDA Forest Service, and the U.S. Department of the […]
Digging for Dinosaurs in Retirement
Curious about what volunteering at the Museums might be like? Here’s some insight from volunteers at our Dinosaur Journey site in an article on nextavenue.org – where grown-ups keep growing. […]
Did you know…?
For over 50 years the Museums of Western Colorado have been serving the residents and visitors of Mesa County. Last year nearly 69,000 people visited one or more of our […]
From Our Collections: Kiefer and Cheedle Photo Collections
In the Museums of Western Colorado is two large photo collections of former Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad employees, Warren Kiefer and Ray Cheedle. Because both men were railroad […]