I love visiting art museums - have you ever been to the Denver Art Museum?
I live in Colorado, but have never visited the Denver Art Museum. Is it worth the trip?
I'm not sure - I've never been and would like to find out some information about it?
Denver Art Museum
The Denver Art Museum — DAM is an art museum located in the Civic Center of Denver, Colorado. The museum is one of the largest art museums between the West Coast and Chicago. It is known for its collection of American Indian art, and its other collections of more than 70,000 diverse works from across the centuries and world.
History of the museum.
History of the museum 1893—1923.
The museum's origins can be traced back to the founding of the Denver Artists Club in 1893.
dealer Nancy Wiener—to Canada's Royal Ontario Museum, but they ultimately declined to buy it, owing to its dubious provenance. In 2000 it was bought by the National Gallery of Australia, but subsequent investigations exposed the seated Buddha as a looted artwork, and it has since been repatriated to India. Other US museums reported to have received looted Asian artefacts from Latchford include the Denver Museum of Art, the Kimbell Museum in Ft. Worth, Texas, and the Norton Simon Museum.
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