This museum boasts the world's largest display of native silver ore as well as an impressive display of rocks and minerals from around the world. The Museum's collection of artifacts, relating not only to mining but to the cultural and social life of the Cobalt camp bring those early days vividly to life. Visitors can stop at the gift shop and purchase one of a kind hand crafted silver jewelery, fashioned from .999 pure silver from the local mines. In an effort to stop the decay of the many Cobalt landmarks, the Heritage Silver Trail was established along the far side of Cobalt Lake. This unique self-guided tour of many of Cobalt's famous mine sites draws the tourist back into Cobalt's past, allowing them to explore the very sites where the Cobalt fortune was made. Interested individuals can be taken on a underground tour of the Colonial Adit by Museum staff. This adit echoes the days when men carved out tunnels with hand steel, searching for the vein that would make their fortunes.