Denver Museum of Nature & Science

10 things to do for $10 in Denver this weekend (7 free!), May 10-12

So you spent all your money buying your mom a nice present for Mother's Day. Aww, how sweet! And your generosity will be rewarded with lots of opportunities to have fun in Denver this weekend that don't require you to dig too deep in your wallet -- everything from a free day at the Denver Museum of ... More >>

3 things to do for free in Denver this week, April 15-18

This week's free offerings are all about freedom -- or at least escape. You can travel with Keanu Reeves to the surf culture of Point Break, try to develop an Everybody Loves Raymond-type sitcom in Russia, or head out into space -- all without leaving Denver, or spending a dime. Read on for our thre ... More >>

Space in Your Face spotlights Planet Earth at Deer Pile tonight

Space might be the place, but earth is home, sweet, home. And for that reason, tonight's installment of Deer Pile's monthly space-nerd evening, Space in Your Face, will turn its telescope on the place where we live, approaching the planet from a dizzying variety of angles, both scientific and out-of ... More >>

Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age is a big, big hit

That the Denver Museum of Nature and Science is hosting the Chicago Field Museum's Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age is awesome enough -- and believe us, the exhibit is truly awesome -- but the DMNS has added a whole Snowmass portion, featuring some items that have never been on public d ... More >>

Lost in Space

Head Games

Toga Party

A Red Day

DMNS head curator Kirk Johnson will take over the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.

Kirk Johnson, a paleontologist and fossil hunter who made science and history fun for the masses at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science for the past 22 years, has landed a job with the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Johnson, the head curator and vice president of research ... More >>

More Geek Than Greek

Weird Science

Noah Van Sciver goes to the Denver Zoo

Editor's note: Westword cartoonist Noah Van Sciver paints the town like nobody else, as demonstrated in his recaps of visits to the Denver Art Museum, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, our own Artopia, MCA Denver and StarFest 2012. (Make sure you read Noah's blog for more comics and wondermen ... More >>

Space out at Yuri's Night at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science

Star Trek and Star Wars and all that descended from them inured us to the real hardships of space travel by making it look so easy. But what was it really like for Yuri Gagarin, the first man to ever leave Earth's atmosphere and orbit the planet? The Soviet cosmonaut took off in his Vostok craft on ... More >>

Solar for a Small Planet will shine at the Ricketson Auditorium tonight

The sun may not break through all the smoke in the air from the Jefferson County wildfires today, but "Solar for a Small Planet," a free program at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science tonight, will shine a light on how solar helps power low-income communities around the world.

60 Minutes in Space: Museum of Nature and Science 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.

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 >>

T. rex, O.G.

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

Up Close and Personal

Bugging Out

The Big Draw

Body Movin’

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Paleontology rules Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries

Ship of Dreams

The Titanic sets sail.

Beam Me Up, Scotty

Rocket Man

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

Lewis and Clark Disembark

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

Best Museum Exhibit (Since March 2004)

Quest for Immortality

To Die For

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

Pharaoh Weather

Travel through time with Treasures of Ancient Egypt

Fool's Gold

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

Follow That Story

Back to Nature

Space Is the Place

DMNS launches a new intergalactic exhibit

Best Dinosaur Detective

Ken Carpenter
Denver Museum of Nature & Science

Best Water World for the Masses

Gates Family Foundation Interactive Fountain