Denver Museums: Current and Upcoming Exhibitions!
Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries
Beginning Sept. 26
Denver Museum of Nature and Science
www.dmns.org
Dinos are coming to Denver! Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science brings new findings to life in exciting detail. The exhibit features incredibly
detailed dioramas, lifelike recreations of hundreds of ancient animals, hi-definition computer animated dinos, a Dino-themed IMAX movie and much more. It’s a trip back in time the whole family will love. There will be a myriad of interactive aspects to this event that will allow your kids to get down and dirty with some dinos.
Colorado Ceramics Royalty
September 5 through October 31
Byers-Evans House Gallery
www.coloradohistory.org/hist_sites/Byers_Evans
This exhibit features art by internationally renowned potters Nan and Jim McKinnell. A limited selection of pieces will be sold to benefit the Byers-Evans House Museum and the McKinnell Endowment. Admission to the exhibit is free.
No Pink Tea:
Margaret Brown, Women’s Suffrage & Denver’s 1908 Convention
Through October
Molly Brown House Museum
http://www.mollybrown.org/
In 1908, politics embroiled the nation, women pushed for the right to vote and Denver shone in the national spotlight by hosting its first ever national political convention- the Democratic National Convention. Margaret "Molly" Brown waded right into the fray. The exhibit “No Pink Tea,” named for a Margaret Brown quote, recreates the controversies and passions of the day, with special focus on women’s role in the political arena as they campaigned for the right to help select the American president, regardless of party affiliation. In 1908, women in Denver and elsewhere grew increasingly avid in their desire to cast ballots. The exhibit will be on display inside the Brown’s restored 1889 home, where the leaders of the day, Teddy Roosevelt, William Jennings Bryan and William Taft, could all have found comfort.
Target’s Free First Tuesday NIght
Oct. 7, Nov. 4, Dec. 2
Children’s Museum of Denver
http://www.cmdenver.org/
Bring your kids for Target Free First Tuesday Nights! The first Tuesday of each month this fall, from 4-8 p.m. the Children's Museum will be open for a free playtime with special StoryTimes and more!
COLORADO'S ASTRONAUTS: In Their Own Words
Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum
http://www.wingsmuseum.org/
This inspiring new exhibit features personal reflections, memorabilia and artifacts from astronauts with Colorado ties. You may not know that 20 percent of all U.S. astronauts have significant ties to the great state of Colorado! Most have birthplace, hometown or alma mater affiliations with Colorado and a few more have other well-known ties to our state. Visit Colorado's Astronauts: In Their Own Words and learn what inspired these people to become astronauts in the first place, how they prepared for their missions, what their most memorable moments were, how Colorado influenced their careers and what space may hold for all of us in the future.
Tribal Paths: Colorado's American Indians,1500 to Today
Through 2008
Colorado History Museum
www.coloradohistory.org
In 2005, the Colorado History Museum opened a landmark exhibit, Ancient Voices: Stories of Colorado’s Distant Past, which actively explores the culturally rich lives, art, architecture and technology of Colorado’s first peoples. The museum has picked up in time where Ancient Voices left off with Tribal Paths: Colorado’s American Indians, 1500 to Today. The exhibition opened last year, and has been a rousing success – if you haven’t checked it out yet, you definitely should. Tribal Paths examines trade networks that linked Colorado’s American Indians with groups from the Pacific Ocean to the Mississippi River, encounters with newcomers, the removal of tribes to reservations, the boarding school experience, and American Indian civil rights—as well as contemporary American Indians’ enduring connections to their cultures. Together, these two exhibitions present one of the most comprehensive interpretive museum experiences available in the Denver metro area about the state’s American Indians.
