Museums

Breckenridge Welcome Center

Part information center, part historical museum, the 4,000 sq. ft. facility opened the summer of 2006. Built around a 19th Century log cabin, which was likely someone's home, was fully exposed and renovated so the public can walk along the same floorboards and run their hands along the same hand-hewn beams that miners touched more than a century ago. The cabin has now become an interpretive museum featuring displays on life in Breckenridge in the 1880s. The Breckenridge Welcome Center also includes multimedia displays highlighting the town's history from its days as an Indian settlement to a gold-mining mecca to Victorian ski village.

Barney Ford House Museum

Museum Hours: Daily 11am - 4pm

This house museum is an 1880s Victorian Home restored to tell the story of the original owner and former slave, Barney Ford. Tours are available year-round.

Edwin Carter Museum

Museum Hours: Daily 11am - 4pm

Built in 1875 to house a growing collection of Rocky Mountain Flora and Fauna by "Professor" Edwin Carter, the Summit Historical Society's walking tour in the summer stops here and welcomes visitors year round.

Mountain Top Children's Museum

This engaging children's museum offers exhibits, camps and workshops year-round for kids of all ages.

Valley Brook Cemetery

The first cemetery in Breckenridge was just southwest of the Broken Lance Road/State Highway 9 intersection at the south end of town. All but one of those early graves,that of Baby Eberlein, were moved to Valley Brook Cemetery in 1882. In 1997, the infant girl's grave was moved next to the graves of her mother and brother in the Masonic section of the cemetery.