SALIDA MUSEUM Heart of the Rockies HistoryJanuary, 2020 HAPPY NEW YEAR! Winter HoursThe Salida Museum is currently open for winter hours, Saturday and Sunday, 1pm – 5pm. This schedule will be in effect until the Memorial Day weekend, 2020. However, we are always available to open the museum for a special event, or maybe an out-of-town …
The grave of Sgt. David Daniel PACHECO at the American War Cemetery Margraten, Netherlands now has a face to go with it thanks to a recent inquiry to the museum. His picture is in the 1936 Le Resume, the yearbook of Salida High School, which is part of the museum collection. Pacheco’s name with gold …
Some changes for 2019! Bob Campbell has been elected as the new president of the Salida Museum Association. Bob is a long-time volunteer, helping out with so many tasks of running the museum, not to mention a fabulous docent and storyteller. We’re happy to welcome him to his new role. Bob is seen here with …
For most of this year, the Museum has been working on a collaboration with the Salida Regional Library to scan many of our interesting old negatives. We are happy that these gems will finally be dusted off and be made available to anyone searching the Library archives. Check it out under the Salida Museum Negatives …
Check out “Whitewater”, a Rocky Mountain PBS documentary tracing the history of FIBArk. The Salida Museum was proud to be a contributor to this fascinating history of FIBArk through film, photos and interviews.
Every Halloween, the second graders come to visit the Museum as part of their local history module. They know a lot about local history and continue to amaze us on just how smart they are! Thanks to Bob Campbell, Larry Kovacic and Susan Jesuroga for their time sharing our history, and to Earle Kittleman and …
Salida and Mt Ouray. “Cuddled in one of the innumerable valleys is Salida, a beautiful little city of 5,000 souls, surround by lofty mountains, which shield it from the cold blasts of winter and render it a delightful place in the summer time. Salida is an important divisional headquarters of the Denver & Rio Grande, …
Part of any museum’s mission is preservation of artifacts that have been donated. This photo shows Bob Inge, of Inge Preservations, examining our lithograph of Custer’s Last Rally, which was created from an original oil painting by Jon Mulvany, depicting the Battle of Little Big Horn. Inge will be cleaning the print and restoring the …
And you think the deer raiding your flower gardens are bad. Imagine your surprise in October of 1909…
In 1953, the Koppers Company of Pittsburgh donated a Porter Engine to the Salida Museum following the closure of its railroad tie-treating, creosote plant in Smeltertown near Salida. Built in 1926, the engine moved trams loaded with railroad ties to and from the treating shed. It is a two-foot gauge engine, with saddle tank and …