Pikes Peak Historical Society Museum

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Pikes Peak Historical Society Museum

The Pikes Peak Historical Society recently acquired a new building to house our expanded museum collections. Besides collections that portrays Ute Indian culture and local history, the museum has one of the finest mineral collections in the state - second only to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Sheila is a volunteer docent.
If you would like more information on our historical society you can click on the link at the bottom of the page.

Close up of nice cluster of smokey quartz and amazonite.

Smokey quartz crystal - 30 inches long and weighing 80 pounds.

One of the largest smokey quartz crystals ever found. 4 feet long and 439 pounds. You can enlarge the view to see pictures on the wall of the mining of this and the 30" crystal.

Case of local rocks and mineral specimens.

Tava is the Indian name for Pikes Peak and means Sun.

Typical Indian dress decorated with beads & elk teeth. Also, warrior's tunic with deer bones & buckshot.

Indian artifacts from old to newly made.

Fossilized fly's from local quarry.

Items from early Florissant days, including a wedding dress, schoolmarm dress, and an antique iron collection.

Wall of local artifacts including a board from a Montgomery Ward prefab house.

Mountain Man hunted beaver earning $6.00 per plew (pelt). Fur used to make beaver hats.

Local minerals and rocks:

Ute Indian culture:

Fossils - other than Neil:

Gift shop includes local craft items & books on our natural environment, Ute Indian Culture & local history.

Fossilized leaves from local quarry.

Artifacts from bygone days:

Of course, we have a gift shop!

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Northern Ute Native Americans:

Every year members of the Northern Ute Tribe visit their ancestral home here in the Pikes Peak Region. Part of their visit includes an exhibition dance they put on at the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. Their visit is sponsored by the Pikes Peak Historical Society. The following are a few pictures from a visit in the summer of 2009.