Victorian Death Experiences in victorian font in white text on a black background with purple filigree. The subtitle reads: myth and lore around Victorian spirituality and death.

Event Series

Victorian Death Experiences

Victorian Death Experiences returns this fall with new thrills, chills, and spooky delights. This year, guests will venture upstairs into the most personal quarters of the historic home to witness what experiencing death and mourning would have been like in the late 1800s.

Step into a death experience of the past with this captivating tour through the shadowed halls of the Victorian historic house at the Center for Colorado Women’s History. Guests will experience our historic home decorated for mourning while getting a deeper, darker look into peculiar death rituals and realities of a foregone era. Victorian Death Experiences will feature grisly artifacts, hair-raising rooms, and stories of death’s presence in Denver. Don mourning attire and come prepared to attend a Victorian Wake.

Please note that Victorian Death Experiences features sensitive content and is not recommended for young children.

Victorian Death Experiences is available on select Thursday and Friday evenings, and Saturday afternoons in October. Reserve your tickets to this one-of-a-kind tour here.

View of the Center for Colorado Women's History library. At the center of the room is a dark wooden coffin. On the lid is a black rose and a bell next to a small journal.
Stack of books on a wooden table. At the top, an old pamphlet reads 'Exercises.'
Ornate wooden table with a tea set and fruit tarts. Surrounding the tea setting are automatic drawings and tea leaf analysis drawings strewn across the table.
Dark wooden table lit with a small candle. On the table are sheets of automatic writing filled with thin, curving sloped shapes.
The Little Book of Life After Death
Spanish-American cemetery Trujillo Creek
Burial of Horace Tabor
Table covered in a myriad of black and white photographs showing Colorado graveyards. There is a candle beside the photos.
Automatic Writing
Table full of mortuary and funerary items such as makeup, razors, rouge, and weights.
Cavalry Cemetery

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