Museum sights in Colorado Springs
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World Figure Skating Museum & Hall of Fame
Fans of figure skating should stop by this museum where you can glimpse snippets of past greats. You'll see their skates, outfits and stills and video footage of some of the greatest routines ever performed.
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Money Museum
Yes, museums dedicated to coin collecting do exist. Or maybe it's museum (singular). We're not sure. But this museum, operated by the American Numismatic Association has gold coins from the early 19th century, Early commemorative coins from the turn of the 20th century and a few vintage greenbacks too.
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Pioneers Museum
Colorado Springs' municipal museum is set in the old El Paso County Courthouse, built in 1903. Their collection and exhibition of some 60,000 pieces sum up the region's history. Particularly good is the Native American collection, which features hundreds of items from the Ute, Cheyenne and Arapaho nations.
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Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
This recently re-done $28-million art museum and 400-seat theatre opened in the 1936. The museum's collection is surprisingly sophisticated with some terrific Latin American art and photography, and a great series, in the original, pebbled marble wing, by local artist Eric Bransby on the history of navigation. But these are just some of the 23,000 pieces in its permanent collection
There are Mexican clay figures, Native American basketry and quilts, wood-cut prints from social justice artist Leopoldo Mendez, terrific abstract work from local artists such as Vance Kirkland and Floyd Tunson. Its biggest and most famous work is Richard Diebenkorn's Urbana No. 4, an abstract…
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