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Current Exhibits

The Museum presents about three temporary exhibits per year in addition to its permanent exhibit, Tracks in Time, which details the Estes Park area's history. 

Tracks in Time 

The Museum's award-winning permanent exhibit on the history of the Estes Park area, from the Ice Age to today.

Estes Park in the '60s

Remember the days of shag carpeting, wide ties, Andy Griffith and console television sets? For baby boomers, their Generation X offspring and everyone beyond, the Estes Park Museum introduces a new addition to Tracks in Time, the permanent exhibit that describes the history of Estes Park. The 1960s exhibit includes objects from the Museum’s permanent collection. Important contributions to community history of the era are included such as textiles, a variety of community records including yearbooks, business advertisements, photos and popular entertainment.

The Stirling Legacy

Delve into the artistic legacy left behind by Dave and Jack Stirling of Estes Park.  This father and son artistic duo is often remembered for their community contributions, personalities, artistic representations and created characters.  The exhibit will be featured in the Main Gallery of the Museum and will run from May 7, 2010 through April 10, 2011.

In the Footsteps of Isabella Bird: Adventures in Twin Time Travel

Kyoto University professor, Kiyonori Kanasaka, brings his long-time interest in Isabella Bird’s world travels to the Estes Park Museum.  After retracing her journeys, Kanasaka has produced a photographic compilation of what the lands spanning the continents look like today.  Explore these incredible photographs that bring the words of Bird’s voyages alive and compare what has happened to her destinations well over a hundred years later. 

Kanasaka's work has been displayed in Edinburgh (2005, National Library of Scotland), Ripon (2008, Fountains Hall), Dundee(2008, University of Dundee), Tobermory (2009, An Tobar), Kyoto (2010, Kyoto University), Nara (2010, Nara Prefectural Library & Information Center), and London (2010, Royal Geographical Society). After this Colorado exhibition, his work will tour Honolulu (2011, Hawaii State Library) and Shanghai (2011, Shanghai Normal University).

His first show in the United States is on display in the National Park Service Headquarters at the Estes Park Museum now through January 16, 2011.

Isabella Bird's photograph of the south gate of South Korea and Kiyonori Kanasaka's modern photo of the east gate.  Bird's photo was duplicated from her book "Korea and her Neighbours" (London, 1898).

 

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