Littleton Historical Museum

The Littleton Historical Museum is a unique link between Littleton's past and present. Located on 14 acres adjacent to Ketring Lake, it features two living history farms. The 1860s homestead farm and the 1890s turn-of-the-century farm show how people lived and worked during the early years in Littleton and the South Platte Valley. There is also a working, early 1900s blacksmith shop, an ice house and Littleton's first one room school house.

After a year of construction, the Littleton Historical Museum re-opened its main building to the public Saturday, February 5. Construction on the $8.5 million expansion began in November 2003, and the project was completed on schedule and under budget. The new building features expanded galleries and workshops, as well as educational classrooms, a lecture hall, a research center, interactive exhibits, and state-of-the-art climate control.

Interpreters work the farm sites, run the blacksmith shop and teach in the school house, offering a "living history" perspective to the museum visitor. The Collections Center, across the street from the museum, houses an impressive collection of over 40,000 historically significant artifacts that are used as educational tools, for research and in the changing exhibits in the museum galleries. When it is completed, the research library in the main museum building will have a splendid collection of books and manuscripts, and a wonderful collection of over 3,000 historical photographs for use by the public. The Research Center in the main museum building has a splendid collection of over 2,000 books and manuscripts and over 6,000 historical photographs for use by the public.