Victor Lowell Thomas Museum - Victor, CO
N 38° 42.601 W 105° 08.403
13S E 487823 N 4284606
Victor Lowell Thomas Museum is located in downtown historic Victor on the corner of Victor ave. & 3rd St.
Waymark Code: WMCP63
Location: Colorado, United States
Date Posted: 09/27/2011
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The Victor Lowell Thomas Museum is housed in an 1889 brick structure that once was a hardware store, hotel, and furniture store.
The museum has two floors of artifacts, books, and photographs from the early times in Victor. There is also a display that has memorabillia once owned by famous journalist, author and world traveler, Lowell Thomas.
The gift shop offers books, maps postcards,prints, posters, gold ore rock and videos Lowell Thomas's life.
The museum is owned and operated by the Victor Improvment Association a 501c3 non-profit organized in the 1950's.
There is also some old mine equipment behind the museum that belongs to the museum.
Theme:
Local history of the early gold mining
Street Address:
202 Victor Ave.
Victor, CO 80860
Food Court: no
Gift Shop: yes
Hours of Operation:
Open 7 days a week.
9:30a - 5:30p
May 28th - Sept. 5th
Weekends in Sept. thru Oct. 9th
Cost: 6.00 (listed in local currency)
Museum Size: Medium
Relevant Web Site: [Web Link]
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