Although fantastical, mythic creatures are windows into history and how cultures have adapted different meanings to legends. Learn more at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science exhibit, Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns, and Mermaids.
Arts/Culture
1968: The Year That Changed Everything
At the Colorado History Center, visitors relive 1968 through displays that weave together the events of that tumultuous year.
William Matthews Trespassing
Willie Matthews’ well-known portrayals of working cowboys from the great ranches of the American west are coming to the Denver Art Museum.
Remembering Dearfield: Black History Is Colorado History
The town of Dearfield, near Wiggins, Colo., was founded in 1910 by Oliver Toussaint Jackson as an African-American agricultural colony and later abandoned in the 1930s during the Dust Bowl. Read about this almost-forgotten town.
Talking About Race
The History Colorado Center is initiating conversations about race and provides tips for parents.
Travel the Silk Road at DMNS
Get ready to travel on a 5,700-mile journey over hot deserts and frigid mountain passes, through five cities along the most celebrated trade route in human history.
Ethiopian Art Celebrates Culture and Supports Literacy
Denver artists have created a collection of work that celebrates Ethiopian landscape, culture and art, which will be on display at the Blair-Caldwell African American Library. The art will benefit Ethiopian schools, librarians and teachers to boost literacy.
36th Annual Park Hill Home Tour & Street Fair Sunday, Sept. 28
The Park Hill Home Tour will feature some of the neighborhood’s greatest architecture, including five homes and the Smiley Campus.
Stapleton Open Studios Free Tour Sept. 27, 28
Visitors will meet artists and get a behind-the-scenes look at the creative process.
Window Well Artistry
To brighten up basements artist artist Carol Tuttle paints scenes in window wells.
Shakespeare on The Green: The Tempest
There’s something for everyone in The Tempest. Hear from the directors in this video.
Transforming Alleys into Art Walks
Like little art fairies, Jack and Pam Farrar anonymously put up art in alleys and on fences throughout Northeast Denver.














