Tour 3: Highlights of the Denver Art Museum
Tour leader: Staff of the Denver Art Museum
The tour will cover highlights from the collection of the Denver Art Museum, the leading venue of its kind in the Rocky Mountain region. A wide range of galleries present paintings, sculptures, textiles, graphics, and crafts from premodern, modern, and contemporary Asia, Oceania, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. The museum boasts particular strength in the areas of Native American, Pre-Columbian, Spanish colonial, and Western art. Current special exhibitions cover topics including Japanese fashion design in the 1980s and 1990s, contemporary Japanese ceramics, and masterworks of the Venetian Renaissance. Participants will tour the museum with a docent, with the option to continue to explore the exhibits on their own after the tour.
Please note: The museum is ADA compliant; participants will walk approximately 15 minutes to and from the museum. Alternate transportation for people with disabilities is available on request.
Limit 30 people. $20 members, $25 nonmembers