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Ring in 2022

With a Ski Map Pioneer, Three Old Signs, and the Golden Gem Film Projectors

While exhibit updates and changes were temporarily placed on hold during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Golden History Museum doubled down on its Legacy Collection Inventory Project. Looking forward to 2022, the collection inventory will remain a museum priority, with new technicians on staff to expedite the process. However, the museum will welcome several exciting exhibit updates in early 2022. LEGENDARY SKI MAP PIONEER

This permanent gallery dedicated to celebrating the good people of Golden will temporarily showcase an original painted map/work of art by Hal Shelton who is best known for the artwork he created for the ski industry. On loan from the Colorado Snowsports Museum and Hall of Fame, the nearly eight-foot-wide painting was created around 1965 for Colorado Ski Country USA and includes a number of Colorado’s lost ski areas. GET A SLICE OF HISTORY

Craft Beer & Pizza, which celebrates two longtime Golden businesses and families, is closing. B&P will be replaced with Sign o’ the Times and feature at least three newly acquired historic signs from local places such as Big Tree Mobile Home Park and the neon sign that marked the Golden Independent Order of Oddfellows lodge on Washington Avenue since 1952. MOVIE PROJECTORS

The museum acquired the two original Simplex E-7 movie projectors from Golden’s beloved Gem Theater. Countless movie reels ran on these technological marvels, entertaining the good people for close to 30 years. The onetime theater, located at 1301 Washington Avenue, is now home to Starbucks Coffee and Snarf’s. The John Nowlen family of Arvada, who once owned the old theater, generously donated the projectors recently after keeping them safely stored for nearly fifty years. The projectors were believed lost to history. Museum staff is thrilled to have the projectors back in Golden and looks forward to getting at least one out on public display.

"Art is ultimately about emotion. Successful art should create similar emotions in the viewer to those that compelled the artist to create the original." — Hal Shelton’s philosophy of artistic expression. “Colorado Ski Country USA” map, about 1965. Golden History Museum & Park, City of Golden Collection.

Simplex E-7 movie projector from Gem Theater.

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