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Changing and permanent exhibitions, studio classes, tours, lectures, special events and family activities.

Hours: Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue. & Thur., 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Wed. & Fri., 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Sat.-Sun. Museum shop open daily, during museum hours. Palettes Restaurant open daily except Mondays.

Kids Corner and Eye Spy

Daily

Featuring changing family activities on every floor, includes hands-on art in the Kids Corner.

Family Backpacks

Daily

Check out a free backpack filled with hands-on games and activities to lead you on adventures through the galleries. Preschool and bilingual backpa...

Just for Fun Family Stations and Just for Fun Architecture

Daily

Six world culture-themed play stations and a place to discover your inner architect.

American Indian Art Galleries

Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

In the 1920s, the Denver Art Museum became one of the first art institutions in the world to collect American Indian material not be-cause of some ...

Gary Emrich: Contact

Daily from Sun., September 11 until Sun., April 8

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2011 | Best Wild West Show

The artist at the center of Charles Deas and 1840s America had quite a story. Charles Deas was from a once-prominent family in Philadelphia; after studying art in New York, he headed out west to record the previously undocumented people and... More >
2011 | Best Photo Show — Group

It took the Denver Art Museum over a century to finally decide that photography deserved its own department. The first step was to hire a curator: Eric Paddock, who used to fill the same role at the Colorado Historical Society. To create the new... More >
2011 | Best Museum Shop

You're not supposed to think about shopping when you visit an art museum — and at most of the museums in the metro area, that's easy. But the Denver Art Museum put as much care into its new shop as it did its exhibit galleries, installing a... More >
2010 | Best Museum Shop

Perhaps the most successful space in the controversial Frederic C. Hamilton Building is the new Denver Art Museum shop built into the formerly bleak and cavernous lobby. Roth Sheppard Architects, one of the city's most distinguished firms, did an... More >
2010 | Best Museum Exhibit

Since coming to the Denver Art Museum from Germany, director Christoph Heinrich has been a workaholic, refitting the permanent-collection galleries devoted to modern and contemporary art and putting together a couple of major shows, including... More >

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Westword Reviews and News

Gary Emrich's Contact layers video on video for an abstract effect

By Michael Paglia | Thu, January 26, 2012

One of the most important curatorial departments at the Denver Art Museum (100 West 14th Avenue Parkway, 720-865-5000, www.denverartmuseum.org) is Modern and Contemporary, headed by Gwen Chanzit; a major portion of the Hamilton Building's third an... More >
Hand-Painted China

By Michael Paglia | Thu, January 05, 2012

Nothing has come on stronger in the late 20th and early 21st centuries than Chinese artwork, and, amazingly, Denver has been a center for its new appreciation. Ron Otsuka, Asian art curator for the Denver Art Museum, is one of many reasons why. Th... More >
Scenic Sprawl

By Michael Paglia | Thu, December 15, 2011

Robert Adams was teaching English at Colorado College in the early 1960s when he met Myron Wood, who taught him the basics of photography. But instead of taking the traditional approach of focusing on scenic beauty, Adams began capturing the uglin... More >
Art With a Future

By Susan Froyd | Thu, October 20, 2011

Local artist Xi Zhang ended up here, direct from China, because of an obsession with the Beat poets; the lure of Naropa University and Denver's Beat history landed him at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, where he was once a student an... More >
Eight great shows make up the brilliant Marvelous Mud at DAM

By Michael Paglia | Thu, July 21, 2011

If you haven't yet seen Marvelous Mud, the homegrown, summer-long blockbuster at the Denver Art Museum, you might think it's a single show. But it's actually eight different exhibits, a series of workshops, lectures by artists and curators, variou... More >

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saloncherryhillsdayspa

| Sat, March 19, 2011

Always something new to see. This is just a fun place to see the new and old art

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acrista.billings

| Fri, February 25, 2011

A new Landmark building similar to the building in Toronto Canada, the building itself is a work of art.

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itakeyourblood

| Sun, January 16, 2011

you just have to go.

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gerhart2k@gmail.com

| Thu, April 22, 2010

Like it

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ocio

| Sat, February 27, 2010

Variety of exhibits, great way to spend a couple hours or longer First Saturday of the month is free!

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