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Denver Museum of Nature and Science

Colorado, United States

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.

About

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.
The museum is an independent, nonprofit institution with approximately 450 full-time and part-time staff, more than 67 volunteers, and a 67-member board of trustees. It is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums and is a Smithsonian Institution affiliate.
In 1967, the museum received 1,151,000 visitors, ranking eighteenth in the List of most-visited museums in the United States. It was the fourth-most-visited U.S. museum of nature and science. The museum's official online magazine is called Catalyst.

Map & location

2001 COLORADO BLVD, DENVER, CO 80205, Colorado, United States

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Video

Colorado has a long history of remarkable fossil finds. In the last few months alone, scientists have made exciting new discoveries, including the footprints of a running baby apatosaur. It happened again last year when a construction crew, using heavy machinery to expand a local reservoir, discovered the bones of Ice Age animals dating back 50,000 to 150,000 years. The muddy area near Colorado's Snowmass ski resort had once been an ancient mountain lake.Credit: VOA · Public domainSource ↗

Sources & credits

  1. Wikidata — Denver Museum of Nature and Science Wikidata
  2. Wikipedia — Denver Museum of Nature and Science Wikipedia