The Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum sits in a granite building with a domed clock tower. It was the El Paso County Courthouse from 1903 to 1973, and the museum moved in during 1979. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places, and was the second property in El Paso County to be listed, after Pikes Peak.
More than 60,000 objects fill the collection, from Arapaho, Cheyenne and Ute artifacts to Van Briggle pottery, quilts and items that belonged to writer Helen Hunt Jackson. The museum also holds papers of General William Jackson Palmer, the city's founder. Admission is free.
The museum sits within Alamo Square Park. A street clock from 1900 stands there too, saved from being destroyed during urban renewal in the 1960s.