The Cripple Creek District Museum is a private, non-profit foundation founded to preserve the history of the fabulous Cripple Creek District.
It is located on Bennett Avenue in the former Midland-Terminal Railroad Depot, the Cripple Creek District Museum complex contains three buildings with six floors of mining memorabilia, maps, paintings, glass and china, children’s items, furnishings, an assay office, a photograph gallery, Indian artifacts, mineral displays and two Victorian apartments.
The Cripple Creek District Museum houses literally thousands of archives, including books and booklets, business ledgers, city directories, documents, family files, letters, magazines, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, photographs and photograph albums, postcards, Sanborn maps, scrap books, stock certificates and other important historical resources. Over 1,000 photographs are available on our in-house computer or by clicking on the Colorado Digitization Program.
The Museum is Open Year-Round
Summer Hours: June 1-Sept. 30
10 a.m.-5 p.m.
7 Days A Week
Winter Hours: Oct. 1-May 17
10 a.m.- 4 p.m.
Saturday, Sunday