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Click button to learn more for family visits. Click button to learn more about school visits.

Click button to learn more about history Trunks. Click button to learn more about teacher's resources.

Click button to learn more history take out.


Family Visits

Become a Junior Curator! Download and print out the appropriate worksheet below to keep your children engaged and learning while visiting the Animas Museum.


We will be having special family programming connected to our new Ute STEM exhibit on October 11 and November 29. Stay tuned for more information and we hope to see you there!


Field Trips

Bring your students to learn about local history with our docents.

~1.5 hours, limited to 30 students at a time.

Visits include a combination of three of the following exhibits (depending on requests and learning goals):

  • -Learn in a 1905 era classroom
  • -Explore a late 1870s era log cabin
  • -Experience a Depression era La Plata County home
  • -Investigate artifacts connected to Durango's migration history
  • -And more!
  • -Special for Fall 2025: Discover Ute history and its connections to STEM concepts
  • -Special for 2026:Explore La Plata County’s natural landscape through maps and a topography table to see how it was used as a key travel corridor for many groups for thousands of years


Click here for School Visit Important Information.

Click button to sign up for a school visit.



History Trunks

Borrow a trunk with artifacts and activities for two weeks to use in your classroom.

Click on the links below for more information about each option.

New! History Takeout Kits

We can send a facilitator and activities to you to run a lesson! This uses History Colorado's History Take-Out Kits - click here to learn more. You can also borrow it and run the activities yourself like a trunk.

History Take Out Programs:

  • -Moving Day: Colorado’s Migration Story
  • -Western Work: Colorado Industries of the Past
  • -Ute Knowledge: Colorado’s Original Scientists

Click button to request a History Takeout Program.



Teacher Resources

Ready to Use Classroom Resources:


Other Classroom Resources: