In Colorado, the Denver Art Museum is a functioning gallery. African art, architecture and design, Asian art, European and American art before 1900, Latin American art, Oceanic art, modern and contemporary art, photography, textile art and fashion, Indigenous arts of North America, and western American art are just a few of the cultural representations found in the museum's global art collections. Additionally, works by artists from Denver and the Rocky Mountain region can be found in the museum's international collections. Denver, Colorado serves as the home of the Denver Art Museum, which opened its doors in 1893.

The Denver Artists Club was established in 1893, which is when the museum first opened its doors. In 1917, the Club changed its name to the Denver Art Association, and two years later it opened its first galleries in the City and County building. In 1922, the museum began hosting exhibitions in the Chappell House. Mrs. George Cranmer and Delos Chappell gave the home on Logan Street to the museum. The Denver Art Association changed its name to the Denver Art Museum in 1923. (DAM).

It should take you an hour to complete, but if it's busy you might want to give yourself a little more time. Additionally, you might want to explore more of the museum, so be sure to allow extra time. If you are interested, I would recommend 4 hours for the entire museum, including the exhibit.

The eight-story, 210,000-square-foot building allowed the museum to display its collections under one roof for the first time. In addition to being well-known internationally for its collection of Indigenous Arts of North America, the museum also has one of the best collections of Latin American Art and Art of the Ancient Americas.

The Ponti building, now known as the Martin Building, will be renovated as part of a $150 million project that the Denver Art Museum announced in December 2016. This project will add new exhibition spaces, two new food options, and the Sie Welcome Center to the museum's site. The refurbishment project, which will be overseen by Denver-based Fentress Architects and Machado Silvetti, is expected to be finished in 2021 in time for the original Ponti building's 50th anniversary. In 2019, the Duncan Pavilion was destroyed.

Mixed evaluations have been given to the Hamilton extension of DAM's design. The building's architectural accomplishment, according to Christopher Hawthorne, architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times, does not necessarily imply that it functions well as a museum. "Museum architecture does not always merge cohesively with a great architectural achievement," he said of the Hamilton Building, calling it "a gorgeous piece of architectural sculpture" but "a fairly lousy site for presenting and looking at art."

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