Museums in Denver
Art, science, history and specialist collections worth a half-day each.
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1.Denver Museum of Nature and Science
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science is a municipal natural history and science museum in Denver, Colorado. It is a resource for informal science education in the Rocky Mountain region. A variety of exhibitions, programs, and activities help museum visitors learn about the natural history of Colorado, Earth, and the universe. The 716,000-square-foot (66,519 m2) building houses more than one million objects in its collections including natural history and anthropological materials, as well as archival and library resources.
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2.Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum
The Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum (WOTR) is located on the former Lowry Air Force Base in Denver, Colorado, United States. The museum preserves the history of Lowry AFB's operations from 1938 to 1994 in its collections, archives, and research library.
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3.Convergence Station - Meow Wolf
Meow Wolf is an American arts and entertainment company that creates large-scale interactive and immersive art installations. Founded in 2008, its flagship attraction, House of Eternal Return in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is a 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m2) facility, which includes a concert venue in addition to the main immersive art installation. In 2021 their second installation, Omega Mart, opened in Area15 in Las Vegas. A third location in Denver, Convergence Station, opened to the public on September 17, 2021. A fourth location, The Real Unreal, opened in the Grapevine Mills Mall in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex on July 14, 2023. The fifth location, Radio Tave, opened in the Fifth Ward of Houston, Texas, on October 31, 2024. Meow Wolf's sixth location is planned to open in Los Angeles, California in 2026. Meow Wolf’s interim CEO is Rebecca Campbell, appointed May 1, 2025; she succeeded Jose Tolosa . In 2022, Meow Wolf announced the formation of the Meow Wolf Foundation, which will focus on giving to the communities of new and existing Meow Wolf locations. Julie Heinrich was named as the foundation's executive director.
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4.American Museum of Western Art
The American Museum of Western Art – The Anschutz Collection is a non-profit museum located in Denver, Colorado. Founded in 2010, it is the permanent home for The Anschutz Collection, a formerly private collection of paintings that surveys the art of the American West from the early 19th century to the present.
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5.Colorado Railroad Museum
The Colorado Railroad Museum is a non-profit railroad museum. The museum is located along the former Colorado and Southern Railway line on 19.5 acres (7.9 ha) at a point where Clear Creek flows between North and South Table Mountains in Golden, Colorado.
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6.Tiny Town
Tiny Town & Railroad is a miniature village containing over 100 1/6 scale buildings and a 15 in gauge miniature railway close to Morrison, Colorado.
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7.Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
The Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum (RMQM) is a cultural and historical quilt museum in Golden, Colorado. The permanent collection contains over 800 quilts dating back to the 19th century. The museum is also home to the Sandra Dallas Library and a quilt/gift shop.
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