Wheeler/Stallard Museum

The Wheeler/Stallard house is a Queen Anne style Victorian built around 1887/1888. The first floor of the Museum is interpreted as a Victorian Aspen home and the second floor gallery features rotating exhibitions to explore area history. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the grounds comprise the Ruth Whyte Park.

Opening June 16th at the Wheeler/Stallard Museum, Aspen Historical Society’s newest – and most rad – exhibition Aspen in Excess: the 1980s explores an infamous decade and a turning point in local history marked by rapid growth, rising wealth, and global attention. The exhibition highlights how ‘80s-era changes in politics and culture–as well as building and tax codes–mirrored national trends and transformed the small ski town, revealing parallels with contemporary culture. Through curated stories, archival photographs, newspaper clippings, and epic playlists, this totally tubular history exhibition will bring the pivotal decade to life, in excess! Join us to relive Aspen in the 1980s, a decade defined by high highs and low lows that shaped the small mountain town into a global hotspot.

Free museum admission is generously underwritten by Jacolyn & John Bucksbaum, Ruth Turnquist Carver, Carol & Mike Hundert, Melony & Adam Lewis, Lynda & Stewart Resnick, and Corrine & Lenny Sands