A LOOK BACK As historians, we constantly find ourselves looking back at our community’s history. With a start of a New Year, it encourages us to look back at the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum’s (CSPM) progression over the past year and 124 year history. The El Paso County Association felt strongly about preserving our community’s history, and we continue this tradition to this day. In 2019, we connected more than 100,000 annual visitors to the cultural history of the Pikes Peak region with brand new exhibits, innovative programming and preservation of our object and archival collections. 2019 Early in 2019, [Dis]Information: American Indians Through the Lens of Roland Reed opened to encourage visitors to examine the role “retrospective photography” played in our understanding of American Indians. [Dis]Information includes dozens of pictorialist photographs of American Indians taken by Roland Reed in the early twentieth century, original artwork and commentary by Gregg Deal and contemporary American Indian photographs. The CSPM was honored to work with Gregg Deal, Pyramid Lake Paiute, an extraordinary artist whose work challenges misconceptions of indigenous people and asks viewers to reexamine stereotypes. [Dis]Information was so popular that we are keeping the exhibit open until January 2021. In 2019, with only three years away from the Sesquicentennial Anniversary of Colorado Springs, the CSPM unveiled Evidence: Finding the Facts about General William Jackson Palmer—the first permanent exhibit as part of this celebration. By 2021, the three permanent exhibits will fundamentally reshape our understanding of this community’s compelling, richly diverse, and unique history. We developed innovative ways for our visitors to engage with Pikes Peak regional history. In April, we launched the History Happy Hour Series—an after-hours museum program. This program encourages visitors to connect with different eras of local history by playing board games. This was very successful, and we are looking forward to expanding this program in 2020.
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