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Gathering of Friends
Join the Friends of the Museum for free coffee, tea, and refreshments. Stephanie Gilmore, the museum curator, will speak about new artifact installations and upcoming exhibits.
Who are the Friends?
Friends of Golden History Museum is a support and advocacy board for Golden History Museum & Park. They help GHM&P reach their education mission, financial sustainability goals, and preservation and capital needs.
What do the Friends do?
The Friends help plan and carry out fundraising programs. They give financial support to educational initiatives such as field trips, Summer Camp scholarships, and in-classroom outreach.
They also provide support for preservation and capital projects like digitization of GHM’s historic photography collection, construction of a new buck rail fence at Golden History Park, and underwriting for Golden History Museum exhibits. If you are interested in more information on the Friends or becoming a member, please contact us.
How do I Support the Friends?
The Friends is supported in part by your donations to Community First Foundation. Thank you.
Save the date for this exhibit opening!
Autumn Fest 2023
Autumn Fest is a free celebration of Golden featuring hands-on activities for the whole family, including crafts, big trucks, and even farm animals. Join us to welcome the fall season at Golden History Museum (923 10th St.), proudly sponsored by:
O’Sullivan Personal Injury Law Firm
Golden Downtown Development Authority
Free and Low-Cost Family Activities
- make-your-own thaumatrope station and lawn games (hoop toss, ladder ball, and cornhole)
- 4-H petting zoo
- craft stations
- BIG TRUCKS (Streets, Fire, and Police Departments)
- costumed Civil War interpretation
- karate demonstration
- hands-on paper-making station
2023 Partners
- Colorado Volunteer Infantry Group
- 4-H
- Boulder Apple Tree Project
- Mines Museum of Earth Science
- Golden Library
- Foothills Art Center
- Golden Street, Police, and Fire Departments
- Golden Public Art Commission
- Lane Academy of Martial Arts
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Autumn Fest Gallery
Location and Pricing
Golden History Museum and Golden History Park
Free
Registration
Unlike most GHM&P programs, there is no registration for Autumn Fest.
Membership
Membership pays for itself with just a few programs for your family. Join us.
More Golden history
Check out the Golden History Museum & Park blog for the latest behind the scenes videos and stories, personal memoirs, and history tidbits about Golden.
Golden Cemetery Tour 2023
Register now on eventbrite
Visit the graves of legendary Golden characters with storyteller Barb Warden.
Tours begin and end at the Golden Cemetery. This program is popular, so get your tickets early. This is a rain-or-shine event; weather will not force a cancellation.
You will select your tour time on the eventbrite page.
Two Tour Times are Available
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11 a.m.
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1 p.m.
Registration is required.
Pricing
$5 members; $12 non-members, plus online registration fee
Membership pays for itself with just a few programs for your family. Join us.
About Golden Cemetery
The City of Golden owns and operates the Golden Cemetery. Among the historic notables buried here is George West. West, a Golden founder, started the Colorado Transcript newspaper in 1866.
Additionally, Seth Lake, builder of Astor House in 1867, is buried in the Golden Cemetery. Many other pioneers and characters of the early west are at rest here.
Membership
Membership pays for itself with just a few programs for your family. Join us.
Join the Friends of the Museum for free coffee, tea, and refreshments.
Friends of Golden History Museum is a support and advocacy board for Golden History Museum & Park. They help GHM&P reach their education mission, financial sustainability goals, and preservation and capital needs.
The Friends help plan and carry out programs like the Black and White Night Fundraiser. They give financial support to educational initiatives such as field trips, Hands-on History camp scholarships, and in-classroom outreach.
They also provide support for preservation and capital projects like digitization of GHM’s historic photography collection, construction of a new buck rail fence at Golden History Park, and underwriting for Golden History Museum exhibits. If you are interested in more information on the Friends or becoming a member, please contact us.
The Friends is supported in part by your donations to Community First Foundation. Thank you.