Museum Hours
Winter
10 a.m.- 4 p.m.
Saturday, Sunday
Summer
Memorial Day Weekend
to Mid-October
10 a.m.-5 p.m.
7 Days A Week
Admission
$8 Adult
$6 Military
12 & Under Free with purchase of Adult or Military Admission
Cripple Creek
District Museum
5th & Bennett Ave.,
Cripple Creek, CO 80813
719-689-9540
Major Sponsors
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AAbout The Cripple
Creek District Museum
The Museum Complex Contains 5 Historic Buildings
The historic campus of The Cripple Creek District Museum includes the Midland
Terminal Railway Depot. This train depot operated from 1895 to 1949 and received
an average of ten passenger trains daily. In 1953 this historic structure became
the centerpiece of our Museum.
The Colorado Trading & Transfer was built in 1893 by business owner Albert
Carlton. He started selling coal, but also moved freight within the district
including gold ore. This building is the oldest wooden commercial structure in
Cripple Creek and survived the fires of 1896.
The Assay Office was a former garage built in the early 1900’s and moved to the
Museum grounds over 40 years ago. It has been converted to represent a working
assay office where miners brought their ore to assess its gold value.
Two miners' cabins built in 1892 & 1900. Prostitute French Blanche once lived in
one of the cabins. She served miners on Cripple Creek's notorious Myers Avenue.
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