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construction workers with one of the Haida poles with members of the Wallace family looking on from the stairs above
Martin Building

Monumental Poles Among First Art Placed in the Martin Building (Video)

The Denver Art Museum team has completed the installation of its monumental Haida poles, marking the beginning of art installations for a redesigned and reinstalled Northwest Coast and Alaska Native gallery. The reimagined space will be among the first art galleries to reopen to the public in the initial phase of the renovated Martin Building on June 6, 2020. The DAM’s beloved Haida poles, frequently misattributed as “totem” poles, were the first items installed in the new space.
Welcome Center and North Building
Martin Building

Martin Building Reopening Begins June 6, 2020

We’re happy to announce that on June 6, 2020, we will open three floors of art galleries, learning and gathering spaces, and a restaurant and cafe in the renovated Lanny and Sharon Martin Building and new Anna and John J.
cover of In the Time of the Butterflies and a gallery image of the textile wall hanging called Butterfly
Get Creative

Explore 2019 NEA Big Read at Drop-In Writing

Explore Julia Alvarez's novel In the Time of the Butterflies in front of Marie Watt's artwork Butterfly (in The Light Show) at the Denver Art Museum's Drop-In Writing program on October 22. Lighthouse Writers Workshop is hosting Denver's 2019 NEA Big Read at events throughout town through November 6. This year, the book is by Julia Alvarez. At our Drop-In Writing program this month, Suzi Q. Smith, poet and community engagement coordinator at Lighthouse, will be using writing prompts related to the book.
the sand mandala and the mandala coloring area in The Light Show
Get Creative

Relax with Tibetan Sand Mandala Inspired Coloring Page

Editor's Note: You can enjoy the coloring activity and see the Hayagriva Mandala in The Light Show through March 7, 2021. At the Denver Art Museum, we have in our collection one of very few Tibetan sand mandalas to be permanently installed in a museum. They are traditionally dismantled after construction as a symbolic reference to the impermanence of life and the transitory nature of life in Buddhist thought.
Photo of the Welcome Center and Martin Building under construction
Martin Building

Martin Building to Open in Phases–Starting with New Welcome Center in June 2020

In June 2020, the Denver Art Museum will kick off a phased reopening of the united museum campus, welcoming visitors to the first three levels of the refurbished and renamed Martin Building (previously the North Building) and the new, curved glass-walled Anna and John J. Sie Welcome Center. Championing lifelong learning and creative pursuits for visitors of all ages has always been at the heart of the DAM’s mission.