Collection of black and white photos showing ghostly robed figures in full figure portraits with various figures reacting in fear.

Current Exhibition

Victorian Spirits

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Victorian Spirits explores the history of mourning, funerary practices, and spiritualism both nationally and in Leadville at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century (1880s-1920s).

Tickets

  • Included with General Admission

Location

An ink illustration of a ghost appearing before four seated men.
An unidentified man digs a grave in St. Joseph’s Cemetery near Leadville while the coffin awaits burial nearby.
A musician is startled by the appearance of a ghost of a woman in a flowing gown. She is partially transparent.
Leadville fireman Max Hahnewald’s casket surrounded by flowers sits in front of flags and his portrait.
A group of men stand in a circle holding hands. There's a ghostly light shining on their faces from below.