In the early 1900’s, the Colorado State Normal School (now UNC) was home to various museums including an Anthropological Museum. Artifacts, largely donated by faculty members, were recorded in Museum Registers from 1903 through 1909. Over half of these items were destroyed in the Cranford Hall fire in 1949. The museum continued to be housed in Cranford Hall until relocating to Classroom Building II (Candelaria Hall) in 1973. This new space allowed for expansion of the museum within the Anthropology Department. Under the leadership of Director John Mickey, Curator of Education Nellie Denning, and curatorial consultant Peter Corey, the museum moved to an interactive teaching model accessible to all educational levels. Exhibits such as Navajo textiles and Iroquois beadwork offered experiences for visitors to try their hand at stitching beads and weaving. In another exhibit, a Cheyenne teepee was erected so that visitors could enter and then handle related reproduction artifacts in order to gain some insight into the Plains Indian culture. Another endeavor of the Museum of Anthropology was a publications program managed by Dr. George Fay. In 1967, the President’s Council accepted Occasional Papers in Anthropology as an official publication of Colorado State College. The Occasional Papers included approximately 90 titles within four series - Archaeology, Ethnology, Linguistics, and Miscellaneous. The Museum of Anthropology suffered from lack of funding throughout its existence, but university-wide budget cuts in 1982 brought the program to an end. UNC President Robert Dickeson’s controversial “Comprehensive Program Analysis” almost eliminated the Anthropology Department altogether but ultimately combined it with Black Studies and Women’s Studies, reducing Anthropology from ten to two full-time faculty positions and offering only a minor degree in the discipline. With the closure of the museum, Dr. Claude Johns, Dean of Libraries, was given responsibility of the artifact collection. Items that had been on loan were returned to the owners; musical instruments were donated to the UNC School of Music; and several African artifacts were gifted to the UNC Marcus Garvey Cultural Center. The remaining artifacts were given or placed on permanent loan to the City of Greeley Museum, the Denver Museum of Natural History, and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. The space in Candelaria that had housed the museum was reconfigured to be a television studio for the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication.