by Mark Dodge | Mar 31, 2022 | Collections and Exhibits
Golden’s forgotten newspaper, The Outlook The Golden Outlook, also known simply as The Outlook, was founded in 1946 by brothers George A. Barley and John W. Barley under parent company, Jeffco Publications. The Outlook was published at Golden as a weekly paper...
by Mark Dodge | Mar 25, 2022 | Collections and Exhibits, Culinary History
Golden History Museum & Park received several hundred Jolly Rancher items from the Harmsen family in 2020. Most of this noteworthy collection has been stored since then waiting to be cataloged. Recently, museum staff started baseline cataloging and posting records...
by Mark Dodge | Dec 28, 2021 | Collections and Exhibits
Greg Holland shared this memory about a Golden snowstorm and how his grandparents, Lu and Ethel Holland, who owned the Holland House, helped dozens of stranded travelers. Long ago, some time in the 1960s, an unusually large snowstorm stranded many people in Golden....
by Mark Dodge | Dec 21, 2021 | Collections and Exhibits
With good reason, Golden was abuzz when the announcement came that Miners Alley Playhouse would purchase the old Meyer Hardware building. This exciting opportunity will allow the playhouse to grow and evolve with the rest of downtown Golden, their home since 2003. ...
by Mark Dodge | Nov 5, 2021 | Collections and Exhibits
Exhibit updates and changes were temporarily placed on hold during the height of COVID so we could double down on our Legacy Collection Inventory Project. Looking forward to 2022, the collection inventory will remain a museum priority (we just hired a temporary...
