Yes, we’re going through the canal, one of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken. We’ll experience first-hand what it’s like to be raised 85 feet through a series of locks. Talk about cool! We will also explore the beautiful sights of Panama City.
We’ll then board the bus for Costa Rica - the [...]
Cool facts about the Panama Canal
Since it opened August 15, 1914 more than 960,000 ships have transited the Canal. (That’s almost 1 million!)
It takes a ship an average of 8-10 hours to transit through the Canal.
A ship saves 7,860 nautical miles when traveling from New York to San Francisco through the Canal instead of [...]
We have been hard at work ironing out the details of the Spanish Missions trip and after looking it over all I can is one thing…wow! This trip will truly hit the highlights of northern New Mexico and will be full of history and culture.
Our first day will be a long drive to the [...]
As a 15 year old boy, John Goddard, world famous adventurer (and good friend of Museum of Western Colorado’s Executive Director, Mike Perry), sat down one rainy day and drew up “My Life List” - a list of 127 goals he wished to experience or achieve in his [...]
On January 21, Terry Hammer, Jr. gave a presentation on the Colorado Militia from 1861 to 1927. Around 50 people attended January’s program.
All Oral History Programs will be held at noon in the Whitman Educational Center, 248 S. Fourth Street. The programs are jointly sponsored by the Museum of Western Colorado and the Mesa County [...]
This exhibit features a life-size, fleshed-out reconstruction of Fruitadens, one of the smallest adult dinosaurs in the world, found right here in the Grand Valley in 1976 by paleontologist (and Grand Junction resident) George Callison. Tiny adult dinosaurs are rare, and even more rare are plant-eating dinosaurs that weighed less than a house cat. Among [...]
The Museum of Western Colorado received a very generous donation this week. Museum member Pat Martin donated what is believed to be a Basketmaker III (roughly AD 500) piece of pottery. Further research will be required but, right now, it is believed to be one of the oldest pieces of pottery from the [...]
Herb Bacon has traveled all over the United States and the world and has graciously agreed to share his adventures with us. Bring your lunch and join us for a first hand tour to the following exotic destinations:
February 9: Scotland
February 16: Alaska
March 16: Chile, Easter Island, Bolivia & Peru
March 23: Patagonia
March 30: Brazil & [...]
If you didn’t get a chance to see the exhibit yet, check out the article with photos here that was in the January 22nd Grand Junction Free Press. Then come in to the Museum of the West and see the whole exhibit!
This year we have an outstanding array of trips for you. From one end of the globe to the other… we’ll see and hear glaciers calve… go leaf-peeping and sample Vermont maple syrup… hike into fabulous canyons… examine historic and prehistoric artifacts both inside and out. We’ll see wildlife in Alaska and Costa [...]