by Mark Dodge | May 5, 2021 | Collections and Exhibits
Golden History Museum & Park piloted a Legacy Collection Inventory Project in winter 2019 designed to reappraise the existing collection on hand when the City of Golden commenced museum management in 2010. Now a museum priority, project goals include conducting a...
by Mark Dodge | Apr 1, 2021 | Collections and Exhibits
The Golden History Museum’s ongoing Legacy Inventory Project continues to bring to light forgotten pieces of Golden history. A particularly charming artifact was rediscovered recently, a unique Battenberg Lace coat handmade by Virginia Mallen Chauvenet, wife of the...
by Mark Dodge | Mar 11, 2021 | Collections and Exhibits
Golden United is spotlighting tried and true Golden businesses located off the South Golden Road corridor in Pleasant View. Pleasant View is a vital part of Golden with a rich history, and an area undergoing a kind of renaissance. The history of the area deserves more...
by Mark Dodge | Mar 4, 2021 | Collections and Exhibits, Coors Brewery
Labor strife at the Coors Brewery reached its pinnacle in 1977, the year that brought an end to 100 years of organized labor at the brewery. Conflicts between workers and owners over wages and working conditions are nothing new, but the story of Coors’ labor practices...
by Doug Skiba | Jan 22, 2021 | Collections and Exhibits, Golden History Museum
Go behind the scenes at Golden History Museum & Park to see the inner workings of the 1973 grandfather clock that once kept the time at Woods Mortuary in Golden, Colorado. The historic pendulum grandfather clock made by Ridgeway has a German “Urgos”...
by Mark Dodge | Jan 14, 2021 | Collections and Exhibits, Culinary History, Golden History Museum
Grandson of Jolly Rancher founders donates trove of company artifacts January 8, 2021 By Paul Albani-Burgio, Golden Transcript palbaniburgio@coloradocommunitymedia.com Aside from cold cans of Coors and scores of brainy School of Mines grads, there is perhaps no Golden...
