Night At The Museums In Denver

The dinosaur collection at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.   Photo credit: PRNewsFoto/VISIT DENVER, The Convention & Visitors Bureau.

Night at the Museums comes to Denver when 18 museums will be free on a Saturday night, November 6, 2010.

During Denver Arts Week, the Night at the Museums will allow patrons to hop from museum to museum on free shuttle buses.

Night at the Museums in Denver will include:

• The Black American West Museum. Re-enactments, entertainment and exhibits about African American cowboys, miners, pioneers and Buffalo soldiers.

• The Denver Art Museum. Regular exhibits open for free. The King Tut exhibition at special prices.

• The Denver Botanic Gardens. Moore by Moonlight & Orchids. Henry Moore outdoor sculpture gallery, orchids and live performances.

• The Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Amazon Voyage: Vicious Fishes & Other Riches with storytelling, live animals, demonstrations, dance and music.

• The Forney Museum of Transportation. Lantern-light tours of 200 years of transportation.

• The Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art.  Mad Men and Mod Women with the Bovine Metropolis Theater.

• The Molly Brown House Museum. Tours of the historic home of “Unsinkable Molly Brown.”

• The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Interactive art projects and special docent-led tours.

• The Children’s Museum of Denver. Performances, art projects and hands-on creativity.

• The Byers-Evans house Museum. Twentieth Century American art collection.

New in 2010, the Night at the Museums is expanding to museums in nearby towns Golden and Littleton.

For more info, visit DenverArtsWeek.com.

Image courtesy of Denver Arts Week.