El Pueblo History Museum
El Pueblo History Museum offers an exciting and safe environment with Zipline, Music & Dance, Science Lab. A great place for kids and families. Families love visiting for its fun-filled experience.
Great small museum of local history, inexpensive and free for all kids. It’s a series of galleries – one on the defunt Mineral Palace, one on the shifting borderlands between the US & Mexico (I hadn’t realized it reached this far up), and another one about the Steel industry and the historic strike of the 80-90’s. A Tipi is set up at the end of the hall and there are plaques about buffalo hunting and one about City Park, which I found interesting since I was there the day before. But almost worth the price of admission is the community gallery featuring art by Gregg Deal (which you might be able to visit for free – and you should.)
During the summer, an outside trading post is open and there are lots of activities for kids, like a dress-up area & crafts. It took me about an hour to do a very thorough read-everything tour. Across the plaza is a shelter with a real archeological dig for the history of the town.