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Downtown Aquarium (formerly Colorado's Ocean Journey) is a for profit aquarium and restaurant located in Denver, Colorado, at the intersection of I-25 and 23rd Ave.The 107,000 square feet (9,900 m 2) main building sits on a 17-acre (6.9 ha) site adjacent to the South Platte River.
This list of museums in the U.S. State of Colorado identifies museums (defined for this context as institutions including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
At 52 stories tall, it is 698 feet (213 m) high and the third tallest building in Denver. [1] It is shorter than the Republic Plaza building at 714 feet (218 m), and 1801 California Street at 709 feet (216 m). The building was designed by architect Philip Johnson, under a master plan by I. M. Pei, and was completed in 1983. As it was originally ...
The History Colorado Center is a museum in Denver, Colorado, USA dedicated to the history of the state of Colorado. [1] Construction on the $111 million building started on 19 August 2009. [ 2 ] The museum opened on 28 April 2012 at 1200 Broadway, [ 3 ] one block south of the site of its predecessor, the Colorado History Museum , which closed ...
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 Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) is a special regional tax district of the State of Colorado that provides funding for art, music, theater, dance, zoology, botany, natural history, or cultural history organizations in the Denver Metropolitan Area. [1] In 1988, voters in the Denver region created the SCFD to provide a ...
Later that year, the board selected Allied Works Architecture, led by Brad Cloepfil, for the museum’s design. [7] [8] The museum broke ground on its new home in December 2009 and opened to the public on November 18, 2011 [9] as a single-artist museum. [10] In 2017, the museum launched the Online Collection and Research database. [11]
Pages in category "Museums in Denver" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Avoca Lodge; B.