Welcome to the Museum Our porch is a comfortable place to sit and relax.
The museum grounds provide a place to watch wildlife from our porch.
Museum Living Room
Most of the furnishings in the Dorsey Museum are from the Estes Park Center grounds. The living room features a working circa 1917 Victrola. You are invited to play our restored 1862 Knabe square grand piano. Guests can see the world as it was seen in 1882 by looking through a stereoscope. Children of all ages will find our toy collection interesting.
Kitchen
Our 1923 kitchen features an interactive display titled, A Kitchen before Microwaves or Refrigerators. Have fun identifying vintage tools used in food preperation from that time.
Woodstove
Hoosier Cabinet
Museum Dining Room
The dining room features tableware from historic hotels and lodges in the Estes Park region.
Big Rock Archaeology Diorama
In the fall of 1997, the Dorsey Museum in cooperation with the Colorado Archaeological Society, University of Northern Colorado and the National Park Service excavated a Native American rock shelter site. Carbon 14 dating showed the site was occupied seasonally for almost 2,000 years. This diorama depicts a campsite from the Archaic Period. There is a timeline of artifacts and a hands on touch table for children.
Check out the Virtual Tours of many of the images by clicking the link below
the image descriptions. Virtual Tours
allow you to zoom in and move
around the images. Virtual tours will open in a new window. Feel free to close the window
after viewing.
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