Step into Colorado’s mining past at the Western Museum of Mining and Industry, an interactive 27-acre museum where history is built to move. Explore working steam engines and historic machinery, pan for gold, venture through a mod...
Step into Colorado’s mining past at the Western Museum of Mining and Industry, an interactive 27-acre museum where history is built to move. Explore working steam engines and historic machinery, pan for gold, venture through a mod...
This museum is one of the only ones in the area I have been to multiple times and not once felt bored. My kids loved it as elementary-schoolers, and still do as preteen/teen. Last week, their easily-bored grandmother walked in skeptical, and walked out a fan! The Mining Museum is Monument's hidden gem, for geology/history/machinery/you-name-it enthusiasts, all.
Jaimie K
July 25, 2026
This museum is one of the only ones in the area I have been to multiple times and not once felt bored. My kids loved it as elementary-schoolers, and still do as preteen/teen. Last week, their easily-bored grandmother walked in skeptical, and walked out a fan! The Mining Museum is Monument's hidden gem, for geology/history/machinery/you-name-it enthusiasts, all.
Jaimie K
July 25, 2026