Opening for 2010 Memorial Day Weekend...Pan for Real Gold..Gold and Gem Panning...Open 7 Days a Week & Expanded Modern Mine Tours in 2010!!!...

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 Expanded Hours 2010

In 2010 we will be expanding  our hours to 7 days week! We open Saturday, May 29 and will be open Saturday, Sunday, Monday and the Wednesday through Sunday until mid-June. Then we will be open 7 days a week until Sept. 6 and then weekends through Oct. 10.

 

Modern Mine Tours

Expanded Tours & Hours

This summer we will be expanding our mine tours and our hours, thanks to the Cripple Creek & Victor Mining Company. Tours will be held at 10 am. and 1 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday from June 1 to 30 and Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday July 1 - Sept. 4. See giant trucks hauling ore, boulders mashed into pebbles in the crusher, the depths of the largest gold mine in Colorado. Reservations are suggested for tours.

 More info to come...

 

Gem & Gold Panning

Try your hand at finding Cripple Creek turquoise, topaz and other gems as well as real gold. The museum hosts panning thru Labor Day and panning for real gold over Gold Rush Days the third weekend in July. This activity is made possible by a grant from the El Pomar Youth in Community Service grant. The cost is $1 over the price of museum admission. More info...

 

Itineraries - Seeing the Gold Camp and More

Day Trip

Two-Day Trip

Drive Through History

 

Museum News

Phase 3 Funded

The State Historical Fund (SHF) awarded the museum 104,196 toward Phase 3 stabilization on Feb. 1, 2010. This means that work on making the museum safe, more useable and spacious will begin this winter. We will also have our store front restored. Thanks SHF!!!

 

Gold Rush Days 2010

A special tour of Victor History will be presented by Steve Veatch of the Lake George Gem and Mineral Club.

More info to come....

 

Window Challenge

Your Donations Save Windows to the Past! Dear supporter of the Victor Lowell Thomas Museum – We Need You! Reserve a window in your name – or the name of your choice – and help us restore the wonderful Reynolds Block/Museum Building in Downtown Victor. More info...

 

Capital Plan - 2010

Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company in 2009 donated $10,000 toward the creation of a Master Plan for capital improvements at the museum. We are currently working with an architectural firm to define needs for the future.

 

Phase II To Be Underway

The second phase of stabilization will begin this winter/spring.

 

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Victor Lowell Thomas Museum

POB 238

Victor, CO 80860

museum@victorcolorado.com.

Museum Shows Off 1890's History

Two floors of artifacts, books, exhibits and photographs depict the life in Victor from its earlier days to he heyday of gold mining.

The gift shop offers books, historic maps and postcards, prints, posters and gold ore rocks, as well as videos of Thomas's life.

 

Pan for real gold and gems open daily outside the museum. Check out a a pan try your luck!

 

The museum, located at the corner of 3rd St. and Victor Ave., is open Memorial Day through Labor Day and Wednesday-Sunday mid-June to mid-August as well as weekends in September and early October. It is housed in an 1899 brick structure that once was a hardware store, hotel and furniture store.

 

The museum is owned and operated by the Victor Improvement Association, a 501c3 non profit organized in the 1950s. The volunteer board of directors of the VIA meets monthly.

 

Who is Lowell Thomas?

Read About Victor's Famed World Traveler

Explore the treasures of the Cripple Creek Mining District - Treasure Map

 

Buy a Pass to Three Museums & Save!

Available at the:

Pikes Peak Heritage Center, Cripple Creek

Cripple Creek District Museum

Victor Lowell Thomas Museum

Outlaws and Lawmen Jail Museum

 

 

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See who is on our Honor Roll...

 

Museum Hours 2010

Daily Memorial Day thru Labor Day Weekend 9:00-5:30 p.m.

Weekends September thru Columbus Day

 

2010 Admission Prices

$4 Adults

$3 Seniors 60 +

$2 Children 12 & Under (3 and under free)

$3 Group Rate for 20 or more

Modern Mine Tours $5 per person

Admission is Free with Modern Mine Tours (does not include gold panning)

Gold Panning $1 additional

Call 719-689-5509 for group tours or email museum@victorcolorado.com.

 

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What Our Visitors Say...

I would like to take a moment out of some very busy people's time who have

worked so hard on the Lowell Thomas Museum. A few years ago I took a tour of

the upper floors and and could hear the walls talking, what stories they

could tell of the history of Victor, the different businesses that use to be

in the building the artifacts,,,on and on.

Today I took a trip through the Museum and as a citizen of Victor, I

can't tell you how proud I'm of the volunteers who have worked so hard on

putting all the energy and due diligence in every step they have have taken,

from cleaning the rooms, the displays, labeling items...it took me an hour

to do a "walk through". I'm looking at several more trips to admire and

soak in more of the great history of Victor.

I don't know all the names of the people involved who have done such

a magnificent job in what I stated, but I know there are countless others

who have donated a few minutes here and there; my hat is off to all involved

and I hope they are as proud as we are of the efforts. I hope these efforts

encourage more people to donate to the cause to continue the restoration of

The Lowell Thomas Museum.

I wish we could have done more for this great cause. if we win the

lotto,,,who knows.....Thank You one and all.

 

Sincerely, Joe & Marjie Stevens

 

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