Top Stories in Summer 2024 Discover The current issue of Discover magazine features an update on two exciting new exhibitions which will open in August. The Clear Creek Room is the museum’s newest exhibition and program space that explores the unique history of...
Top Stories in Fall 2023 Discover The current issue of Discover magazine features articles on Golden High School’s 150th birthday, as well as our Indigenous Connections Project. We’ve published a short excerpt of chapter three of our report in the magazine, but...
Top Stories in Spring 2023 Discover The current issue of Discover magazine features articles on a surprising theft-deterrent device in the 1902 Diebold safe, brand-new exhibit updates featuring one of Golden’s early dentists, as well as our Indigenous...
The current issue of Discover magazine features articles on an extinct amusement park in Golden, the celebrated East Tincup, as well as our Indigenous Connections Project. We’ve published a short excerpt in the magazine, but you can get the entire report at no...
East Tincup: Where the Old West Lived Again, If Only Briefly By Mark Dodge, Curator For a few short years, Golden was home to two different theme parks. East Tincup and Magic Mountain Amusement Park each drew inspiration from stereotypical elements of the American...
“No single project is more important to Golden than this arch…For Golden it will make a new face, a new spirit, and a new thinking.” –Lu Holland speaking to the Golden Chamber of Commerce members. It’s impossible to imagine Golden without its iconic welcome arch...