ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — The Rocky Mountain Music Museum has shut its doors after losing its rental space in Englewood, forcing its owner to place decades of music history and a related nonprofit into storage. At the same time, he searches for a new home.
The museum, founded and operated by Gordon Close, closed last month after he said the lease on its roughly 8,500-square-foot space was not renewed. Close said he was notified just before Thanksgiving that the landlord was pulling the lease and that the museum needed to vacate by Dec. 31.
The museum housed hundreds of rare musical artifacts, including a microphone, Close said, that was used by Elvis Presley and the tape recorders and consoles used for all of the Bee Gees’ recordings. Now, the entire collection, accumulated since 1975, is spread across seven storage units. Close said the collection has grown over decades through personal acquisitions and donations…