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Paleontology rules Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries

Best Water World for the Masses

Gates Family Foundation Interactive Fountain

Nature unleashes on Nature Unleashed

The Denver Museum of Nature & Science got an ironic taste of its own medicine, sort of, Monday when a windstorm knocked out power to the institution, forcing it to close for the day. Why was it ironic? A new exhibit entitled Nature Unleashed is set to open at the museum on Friday, February 13. Alth ... More >>

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Best Museum Exhibit (Since March 2004)

Quest for Immortality

Taste tests: Chocolate and the Yucatan

At 6:30 p.m. tonight, the Lab at Belmar kicks off the latest round of Taste Test, a series that "investigates the foods that we eat through a combination of history, science, anthropology and culinary arts," according to the Lab's Sarah Skeen. First up: "Taste Test: Chocolate," William Poole, found ... More >>

Beam Me Up, Scotty

At 6:30 p.m. tonight, the Lab at Belmar kicks off the latest round of Taste Test, a series that "investigates the foods that we eat through a combination of history, science, anthropology and culinary arts," according to the Lab's Sarah Skeen. First up: "Taste Test: Chocolate," William Poole, found ... More >>

Today's featured event: Natural Disasters in Film at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science is a real screen

While a slow walk through the exhibit, Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters, currently on view at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science through May 3, will answer many questions you might have about the unleashed power of volcanoes, twisters and earthquakes, chances are it will merely whet ... More >>

Pharaoh Weather

Travel through time with Treasures of Ancient Egypt

Photo Finish

Visitors to DIA can now walk a mile in our shoes.

Them Bones

Ray Troll and Kirk Johnson hunt for fossils.

Space Case

Ray Troll and Kirk Johnson hunt for fossils.

Ship of Dreams

The Titanic sets sail.

Rocket Man

David Grinspoon is popularizing science, one alien joke at a time.

Mind and Matter

Art and physics at the Mizel Center, plus a salute to the late Barbara Sudler Hornby.

Lewis and Clark Disembark

Denver gets a visit from a stunning retrospective on the journey of Lewis and Clark.

To Die For

Exquisite Egyptian funerary art graces the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.

Fool's Gold

Newmont Mining, Machu Picchu and the Museum of Nature & Science make strange bedfellows.

Contact!

The Mars Rover, live from Denver

Space Is the Place

DMNS launches a new intergalactic exhibit

A Spaced Odyssey

As the Denver Museum of Nature & Science looks to the future, employees worry that its original mission has been lost.

What does Joe Biden like so much about the Denver Museum of Nature and Science?

Joe the Veep, not Joe the Plumber. Vice President Joe Biden sure must dig the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, where he'll conduct a town-hall meeting today. He was just there in February, standing by as President Barack Obama signed the stimulus package there. Maybe it's because the facility h ... More >>

Body Movin’

Joe the Veep, not Joe the Plumber. Vice President Joe Biden sure must dig the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, where he'll conduct a town-hall meeting today. He was just there in February, standing by as President Barack Obama signed the stimulus package there. Maybe it's because the facility h ... More >>

The Big Draw

Joe the Veep, not Joe the Plumber. Vice President Joe Biden sure must dig the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, where he'll conduct a town-hall meeting today. He was just there in February, standing by as President Barack Obama signed the stimulus package there. Maybe it's because the facility h ... More >>

Bugging Out

Joe the Veep, not Joe the Plumber. Vice President Joe Biden sure must dig the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, where he'll conduct a town-hall meeting today. He was just there in February, standing by as President Barack Obama signed the stimulus package there. Maybe it's because the facility h ... More >>

The Third Dimension

Joe the Veep, not Joe the Plumber. Vice President Joe Biden sure must dig the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, where he'll conduct a town-hall meeting today. He was just there in February, standing by as President Barack Obama signed the stimulus package there. Maybe it's because the facility h ... More >>

Free Movie Time: Legends of Flight 3D at IMAX

​Boeing's 787 "Dreamliner" has been a public relations disaster. Rolled out in 2007, the plane was billed as the future of air-travel: a sleek, efficient long-distance jetliner made with composite materials that consumes 20 percent less fuel than carriers of a similar size. Three years later, ... More >>

Mammoth Madness misses the mark at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science

​Boeing's 787 "Dreamliner" has been a public relations disaster. Rolled out in 2007, the plane was billed as the future of air-travel: a sleek, efficient long-distance jetliner made with composite materials that consumes 20 percent less fuel than carriers of a similar size. Three years later, ... More >>

Denver Museum of Nature and Science asks you to name its woolly mammoth

An ancient bison tusk discovered at the site.​As you may have heard, there was a substantial Ice Age find in Snowmass this Fall. On October 14, a bulldozer driver stumbled on the bones of a female mammoth, and the ensuing excavation has yielded prehistoric skeletons preserved in unprecedented ... More >>

The Science Lounge brings adult fun to the museum after dark tomorrow

​While the majority of programs at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science are family-friendly, The Science Lounge is strictly 21-plus only -- meaning you get to drink beer while looking at old, dead stuff. But the monthly program aimed a mature audience is more than just an after-hours wander thr ... More >>

Gettin' Crafty: Eye patches fer yer mateys!

My pirate patch​For all those who give pom-pom critters for birthdays, feel an urge to stick googly eyes on everything or just occasionally get a twitch to fold some origami, we bring you "Gettin' Crafty" where we feature a craft you can easily make with minimal supplies and limited finances. ... More >>

Avast, Buccaneers!

My pirate patch​For all those who give pom-pom critters for birthdays, feel an urge to stick googly eyes on everything or just occasionally get a twitch to fold some origami, we bring you "Gettin' Crafty" where we feature a craft you can easily make with minimal supplies and limited finances. ... More >>

Avast! Ye Buccaneer Ball filled the DMNS Friday night

​The pirates were out in full force at Friday night's Buccaneer Ball at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science; attendees were playing the part enthusiastically, with about nineteen out of every twenty participants dressed in their best piratical finery. (Although some people seemed to confu ... More >>

Tonight's adults-only Science Lounge brings tattoos and trippy visuals together over cocktails

​Tonight's after-hours Science Lounge at the Museum of Nature And Science invites Dr. Bridget Coughlin, museum curator of Human Health, to speak on tattoos and the biology behind the marriage of ink and skin (and all its squirmy, bacteria-laden possibilities.) But the topic of art will go bey ... More >>

Science Lounge combined the whimsy of childhood with the drinking of adulthood

Please touch the artifacts.​As a small child whipping my crayons around the perfect spiral assistance of the Spirograph, I never never anticipated that I could maximize that activity by adding the sweet elixir of booze, or that I'd be doing both with the aid of the Denver Museum of Nature and ... More >>

Astronaut Bruce McCandless II touches down at Space Day tomorrow at the DMNS

​When it comes to Astronauts, Bruce McCandless II is a straight O.G. Selected by NASA in 1966, a mere eight years after the agency was founded, he got right down to business as the CAPCOM -- the astronaut NASA designates as a mission-control liaison to the astronauts in space -- of Apollo 11, ... More >>

Dr. David Grinspoon is out of this world! Discover Life Out There this weekend at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science

Ka Chun Yu​ David Grinspoon is a local treasure, and we're lucky to have him: The astrobiology curator at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, he's not at all what you expect a scientist to be like. Instead, Grinspoon, who is also a musician and a funny guy, channels the downright psychede ... More >>

100 Colorado Creatives: Dr. David Grinspoon, Denver Museum of Nature and Science

Denver Museum of Nature and Science.​Colorado Creatives #96: Dr. David Grinspoon Science? Art? Bona fide space-nerd superstar Dr. David Grinspoon likes it both ways. By day an author and the mild-mannered curator of astrobiology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Grinspoon is also a ... More >>

We talked with the DMNS' Curator of Zoology about Alien

​The Sci-Fi Film Series kicked off last week and will be running science fiction films, classic and new, every Wednesday for the next four weeks. The series' goal is to offer viewers a chance to talk with and hear a short lecture by an actual scientist about the scientific origins (or pseudo-s ... More >>

10 things to do for $10 this weekend, July 22-24, 2011

Avoid the noise this weekend.​There are a ton of music happenings going down this weekend, but for anyone not interested in loud noises streaming out of amplifiers for 48 hours straight, we have a slew of quiet-time activities to keep your ears from ringing. These include a bunch of movies, a ... More >>

We talk with the DMNS Curator of Health Sciences about Gattaca

​Tomorrow evening brings the final entry in the Denver Museum of Nature and Science's Sci-Fi Film Series at the Phipps Theater, with Gattaca closing the sequence out with a biological bang. As we have been doing lately, we caught up with the DMNS' Curator and Department Chair of Health Science ... More >>

The ten dumbest dinosaur movie taglines

​T. Rex Encounter is opening at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science tomorrow, the new exhibit, which features robotic, interactive dinosaurs has got us rather excited. You can expect a full preview tomorrow morning, but while we're sitting on our hands in anticipation, we've been thinking ... More >>

Photos: "Strange Beauty" by John Bonath

"Croc Boy"​A spider's tiny leg hairs ("thrichobotria"), and a boy quietly, confidently holding the jaws of a taxidermied crocodile with a solitary bubble floating above his head. These images and other appropriately titled "strangely beautiful" photos by John Bonath will be on display during t ... More >>

T. rex, O.G.

"Croc Boy"​A spider's tiny leg hairs ("thrichobotria"), and a boy quietly, confidently holding the jaws of a taxidermied crocodile with a solitary bubble floating above his head. These images and other appropriately titled "strangely beautiful" photos by John Bonath will be on display during t ... More >>

John Bonath on A Strange Beauty at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science

"Medusa Bones," by John Bonath. Denver Museum of Nature and Science.​ Photographer John Bonath's spectacular three-level show, A Strange Beauty, which opened at the end of September at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, encourages visitors to explore a massive, hidden-away portion of the ... More >>

Around the World in Sixty Minutes

"Medusa Bones," by John Bonath. Denver Museum of Nature and Science.​ Photographer John Bonath's spectacular three-level show, A Strange Beauty, which opened at the end of September at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, encourages visitors to explore a massive, hidden-away portion of the ... More >>

Noah Van Sciver Visits the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, a web comic

​ Editor's Note: Cartoonist Noah Van Sciver previously visited the Denver Art Museum for us. Now see what happened when he dropped in at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Make sure you read Noah's blog for more comics and wonderment.

60 Minutes in Space: Museum of Nature andScience has an out-of-this-world new series

​ What do you get when you combine a super-massive black hole, an eight-year-old Mars Rover, uncharted planets...and a couple of geniuses? 60 Minutes in Space, which debuts at 7 p.m. tonight in the Gates Planetarium at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

Flying Monsters looms large at the IMAX 3-D Theater: A Q&A with DMNS curator Joe Sertich

Nice birdy! From IMAX "Flying Monsters 3-D"​ Look! Up in the air! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's a pterosaur! A what? When we think of prehistoric flying things, it's usually the more well-known feathered dinosaurs, such as archeopteryx, that we conjure in our minds. But the pterosaur, w ... More >>