Tag: museum
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Pikes Peak Children’s Museum is without a home
The Pikes Peak Children’s Museum, a nonprofit run in Colorado Springs since 2005, is homeless once again. The museum operated at 2565 Airport Road, a storefront in a strip mall in the city’s southeast quadrant, until late July when the organization’s lease expired, entered 2024 without a brick-and-mortar location. The president of the Pikes Peak…
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Mikaela Shiffrin world cup crystal globe, once broke, finds new home in Vail’s Colorado Snow Sports Museum
While filming an impromptu commercial with Land Rover in the Hermitage Hotel in Soldeu, Andorra, Mikaela Shiffrin broke one of her 2022-23 World Cup globes while buckling it into the passenger seat of the SUV.
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Denver Art Museum reopens three exhibit to the public this weekend
The Denver Art Museum is set to unveil three reinstalled collections Sunday in its Hamilton Building. The newly reinstalled collections include Arts of Africa, Modern and Contemporary Art and Arts of Oceania. These collections haven’t been open to the public since 2016, when the museum began construction on the Hamilton Building.
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Aurora History Museum recovers from water damage
After a drinking fountain leaked into the Aurora History Museum’s collection storage, museum employees worked to salvage the pieces exposed.
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Saints, Sinners, Lovers, and Fools: 300 Years of Flemish Masterworks
Dr. Katharina Van Cauteren, chief of staff and curator for the Phoebus Foundation, discusses her new exhibit in the Denver Art Museum.
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LIFE | A butterfly oasis just beyond Denver
Into its 27th year, the Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster, Colo. is proud to call itself the only invertebrate-focused zoo of its kind accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. Invertebrates are said to account for 94% of the world’s entire animal kingdom. That, along with their documented demise, underscores the importance of Butterfly Pavilion’s…
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LIFE | A museum of whimsy and wonder
Colorado collector Karin Winter’s pandemic project turned into a museum of whimsy in her house. (Video by Skyler Ballard)
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LIFE | Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit
The Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit in Denver will open to the public on Thursday, September 30. 2021.