The building that is now the home for the Steamboat Art Museum was a gift from the estate of Helen Rehder, a long-time space rancher and artist, who stipulated that the building be used as a museum. The museum hosts varied artists’ collections and reveals all year long. Steamboat Springs’ variety of artwork galleries celebrates local surroundings and Western heritage via the work of Colorado and nationally renown artists.

The researchers involved in the discovery formally printed their findings in the journal Nature, in June 2009. The discovery can be the oldest confirmed find of any musical instrument in history. This flute was discovered subsequent to the Venus of Hohle Fels and a brief distance from the oldest identified human carving. When they introduced their discovery, the scientists suggested that the “finds show the presence of a well-established musical custom on the time when modern people colonized Europe”. When Internet … Read More