Denver Art Museum

Two Landmark Buildings On One Block: Gio Ponti'S 1971 Tower, The Only Building He Completed In North America, And Daniel Libeskind'S 2006 Titanium Wedge. Holds One Of The Oldest And Largest Collections Of Indigenous Art Of North America In Any Museum, Begun In 1925. · Denver, Colorado

The Denver Art Museum is two arguments about architecture standing next to each other. The first is Gio Ponti's, from 1971: a twenty-four-sided grey tower clad in a million glass tiles, with windows cut in it almost at random, the only building the Italian modernist ever completed in North America and one that Denver took decades to decide it loved. The second is Daniel Libeskind's, from 2006: a titanium-clad wedge of sharp angles with almost no vertical wall inside it, which visitors either find exhilarating or seasick-making. What they hold is better than either: a collection of Indigenous art of North America begun in 1925, when this was among the first American museums to collect Native work as art rather than as anthropology, alongside major Western American, Spanish Colonial and modern holdings. Anyone eighteen or under gets in free, permanently, which for families is the cheapest serious museum day in the city. Next door stands the Clyfford Still Museum, holding ninety-five per cent of one artist's entire surviving output - a thing no other museum on earth can say.

100 West 14th Avenue Parkway, Denver, Colorado, 80204, United States

Open most days year-round during daytime hours, typically closed one weekday and on major holidays. Admission to the permanent collection is free for visitors eighteen and under as a standing policy. Special exhibitions are timed-entry, carry a surcharge and are the ones that sell out at weekends. Parking is in an adjacent garage shared with the civic centre buildings. The museum is busiest on weekend afternoons and during school holidays.

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