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The cabin
A man in a tiny cabin in Breckenridge began the collection
In 1868 Edwin Carter moved into a tiny cabin in Breckenridge, Colorado, to study the birds and mammals of the Rocky Mountains. Almost single-handedly, he assembled one of the most complete collections of Colorado fauna then in existence.
Opening
The Colorado Museum of Natural History opened on July 1, 1908
In 1892 a group of Denver citizens wanted Carter's collection moved to the capital. With a collection of butterflies and moths and one of crystallized gold, it formed the nucleus of the museum, incorporated on December 6, 1900.
“A museum of natural history is never finished”
John F. Campion, first president of the board, at the dedication
Folsom
Two stone points in an extinct bison pushed back the human record
In 1927 a team led by the Colorado Museum found two stone projectile points embedded in an extinct species of bison in Folsom, New Mexico. The Folsom points showed that humans had lived in North America more than 10,000 years ago.
10,000years or more of human life in North America, shown by the points
The lot
A dinosaur bone turned up 763 feet below the museum parking lot
In 2025 the museum took a core sample from its parking lot to test geothermal heating. It held a fragment of a dinosaur fossil 763 feet below the surface, thought to be a vertebra of a herbivorous ornithopod.
763 feetbelow the parking lot, where the fossil fragment lay
Day 2, morning
Next is Denver Zoo.
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