It was in the summer of 2016 when I visited the Trinidad History Museum and received a great tour. I got entry and a full tour of the Baca House and the Bloom Mansion for free. (Now they have a small entry fee.) I started with the main museum with the exhibits I posted in this blog. The tour of the houses are available with the museum guide only. Outside they have a nice garden where visitors can eat the veggies for free. In the main museum they had a bushel of good apples and invited me to take a bag of apples also free. (They also give to local charities.)
My tour guide was a qualified historian that was full of useful information. We started with a tour of the Baca House. Don Felipe de Jesus Baca made his fortune by farming and maybe some ranching. I interacted with the museum guide as she answered my questions well and we had an interesting historic conversion. The artifacts in the Baca (and Bloom Mansion) were authentic to the time; but I am not certain that the artifacts were used by Mr. Baca (or Mr. Bloom).
Bloom Mansion and the historian gave me a splendid tour of the three story mansion. Bloom made his fortune from his Bloom Cattle Company. The first floor (and the second floor) had expensive artifacts. (I lost my pics of the second floor.) Since the top floor gets hotter in the summer, and colder in the winter; the servants lived on the top floor without the fancy things found on the first floor.
I enjoyed my visit to the Trinidad History Museum. I advise that visitors to museums sign in to prove visitation that helps keep these museums open to the public.
