Posts by Historical Museum

The September Museum newsletter celebrates the Museum’s 40th birthday with a community birthday party and the Louisville History Foundation’s $40 for 40 campaign. It also highlights First Friday: Time Capsules, a Historic Trees Walking Tour, the annual Vintage Baseball game at Miners Field, and a History Happy Hour exploring Louisville and Colorado baseball history.

The August Museum newsletter celebrates Colorado’s 150th anniversary with Colorado Day and a First Friday exploring moments that shaped Louisville and the state. It also highlights a walking tour featuring Louisville’s trailblazing women, a History Happy Hour on Colorado’s 1904 gubernatorial election, and opportunities to help shape the future of Cultural Services through the community survey and open houses.

The Louisville Historical Museum newsletter announces a July 4th closure and a lineup of events, including a "Living Legends" women's history walking tour, summer preschool nature programs, an Ancestry.com research series, general walking tours, and a "History Happy Hour."

June's newsletter features a First Friday on Louisville soda parlors (complete with ice cream), a Model T car show, Louisville trivia night at a local tap house, and an Ancestry research series at the library. It also celebrates Pride Month by recounting Boulder County Clerk Clela Rorex's historic 1975 issuance of same-sex marriage licenses — one of the first in the nation.

The May newsletter highlights a packed lineup of events including a First Friday focused on freedom of the press, a History Happy Hour on the memory of place, walking tours of historic trees and the Capitol Hill neighborhood, and a summer preschool series. It also celebrates the city's participation in the US 250/CO 150 Sesquisemiquincentennial with a new "Moments that Made Us" exhibit connecting Louisville's history to national milestones.

April's Museum newsletter features a First Friday on Louisville's sustainability journey, a History Happy Hour about the only female welder on the Johnson-Eisenhower Tunnel in the 1970s, a pop-up quilting workshop, and a Legendary Ladies historic reenactment event. It also introduces two new Museum Associates joining the team and ties events to the US 250/CO 150 anniversary celebrations.

The March Museum newsletter launches the new History Happy Hour series with a program on the history and legacy of Black cowboys in the American West. It also highlights a pop-up quilting workshop, the new Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness front window exhibit, and Ute Knowledge: Colorado’s Original STEM, exploring Ute science, technology, engineering, and math.

February's Museum newsletter announces a pop-up quilting workshop, a screening of the 1970s western film Buck and the Preacher for Black History Month, and the opening of the "Ute Knowledge: Colorado's Original STEM" exhibit running through April. It also highlights the museum's ongoing Marshall Fire "Coming Home" oral history project and invites the community to contribute rebuilding stories.

The January Museum newsletter looks back on a record-setting 2025 and commemorates the 90th anniversary of the Monarch No. 2 Mine explosion. It also highlights a pop-up quilting workshop, the Hometown Nuclear: The Story of Rocky Flats & Louisville exhibit, the new online Dog Days of Louisville exhibit, and opportunities to explore the Museum’s oral history collection.

It was no secret that coal mining was dangerous. Miners put themselves at tremendous personal risk to make a living. Though the Monarch Mine explosion was extraordinary because of its scale and death toll, death and injury in the mines had always been a frequent feature of life for Louisville families. 90 years after the Monarch No. 2 Mine explosion, the Museum invites the community to remember the eight men who tragically lost their lives in 1936 as well as all those workers and families who endured the harsh realities of industrial life during Louisville’s coal mining days.