Anasazi Heritage Center

The Anasazi Heritage Center is an archaeological museum in Dolores that displays objects from the cultures of ancient Pueblo peoples in the Four Corners region. The collection includes pottery, tools, textiles, and other items spanning a thousand years of settlement history.

The museum was established in the 1980s to preserve collections from excavations in southwestern Colorado and make them accessible to the public. It grew from efforts to document and protect the history of Pueblo cultures in the region.

The center displays how Pueblo communities arranged their homes across the plateaus and built structures from stone and clay that reflected their daily lives. Walking through the ruins gives you a sense of how families organized their spaces and adapted to living in this environment.

The site sits on a high plateau between larger towns and is best reached by car. It helps to plan time for the adjacent Pueblo grounds, which are walkable and open to explore.

The center houses a research library with rare field notes and photographs from archaeologists, offering insights into early excavation methods. These documents reveal how scientists explored this region and what they discovered about the Pueblo cultures.