Colorado-Based Museums & Centers

Children’s Museum of Denver

Address: 2121 Children's Museum Drive, Denver, CO 80211

Tel: 303-433-7444

http://www.cmdenver.org

                                 

Denver Art Museum

Address: 100 W 14th Ave Parkway, Denver, CO 80204

Tel: 720-865-5000   TDD/TTY: 720-865-5003  

Email: web-mail@denverartmuseum.org

http://www.denverartmuseum.org

The Denver Art Museum’s African collection includes significant examples of major art forms from Africa.                                                     

         

Denver Museum of Nature & Science

Address: 2001 Colorado Blvd, Denver, CO 80205-5732

Tel: 303-322-7009  

http://www.dmns.org

The Botswana exhibit offers a comprehensive survey of the ecology in Botswana. This hall also features the largest diorama in the museum, the Savuti Crossroad’s Watering Hole.  

 

Denver Zoo

Address: 2300 Steele Street, Denver, CO 80205-4899

Tel: 303-376-4800   Education Dept Tel: 303-376-7885   Fax: 303-376-4801   Email: zooinfo@denverzoo.org

http://www.denverzoo.org/

The Denver Zoo has many different types of African wildlife on display.  School programs are also available.

 

The Stiles African American Heritage Center

            Address: 2607 Glenarm Place, Denver, CO 80205

            Tel: 303-294-0597   Email: grace@stilesheritagecenter.org

             http://www.stilesheritagecenter.org/

The Stiles Heritage Center offers lessons in African American history, lectures, reenactments, guided tours, cultural exhibits, and artifacts, as well as reading and research materials, and diversity workshops for school classrooms, and the general public. The Center is the recent recipient of Colorado Preservation, Inc.’s 2004 State Honor Award for the Preservation of African American Heritage.

  University of Colorado Museum

Address: CU Campus-15th and Broadway, UCB 218, Boulder, CO  80309

Tel: 303-492-6892   Email: cumuseum@colorado.edu

http://cumuseum.colorado.edu/

 

University of Denver Museum of Anthropology

Address: Sturm Hall 102, 2000 E Ashbury Ave, Denver 80208

Tel: 303-871-2688

http://www.du.edu/anthro/museum.htm

 

The Wildlife Experience

Address: 10035 South Peoria, Parker, CO 80134

Tel: 720-488-3304   Email: jclark@twexp.org

http://www.thewildlifeexperience.com

Each exhibit conveys the importance of wildlife and habitat conservation, the balance of nature, and the relationships formed between animals, humans and the environment.  Current exhibits include: Vanishing Africa. This gallery tells the story of Africa's vanishing habitat, comparing the African wilds of 100 years ago to the Africa of today. Designed as an interactive biologists' field camp, the exhibit lets visitors engage in a variety of activities, including writing in a field journal, examining preserved Goliath beetles, using microscopes, and listening to stories about the African culture by the campfire.

 

 

Museums & Galleries - Online Resources

• Museum for African Art - New York's Museum for African Art.

• Studio Museum in Harlem - African and African Diaspora exhibits and educational programs

• National Museum of African Art - Smithsonian Institution, features African art from antiquity to the present.

• Afrika Museum - The only museum in the Netherlands exclusively dedicated to the collection, study and exhibition of African art.

• Art and Life in Africa Project   - An extremely rich source of information on African art and its cultural contexts. Based on the Stanley Collection at the University of Iowa.

• African Antiques - Belgian dealer's site, with ethnographic information.

• African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning - A nicely annotated on-line exhibition of African art from the University of Virginia.

• African Art Collection - African tribal arts dealer. Photographs and descriptions including some information on cultural significance.

• African Art Shop - Tribal Art (mostly African), links, and descriptions of some African styles.

• African Experiences at the Baobab Tree - Denver gallery, with good informational content about the items for sale.

• African Odyssey Interactive - Wide range of resources, originates at Kennedy Center (Washington, DC).

• African Tribal Art Museum - A comprehensive collection of African art (700 objects; 90 ethnic groups) and lots of information African tribal peoples.

• AfricanTribes.com - Commercial site with a nice summary of the aesthetics of African art.

• Akan Cultural Symbols - Explanations of the iconography of Akan art.

• Art and Oracle: Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibition - African art and divination rituals. Includes a map of sub-Saharan Africa, and essays on divination.

• Belgium's Royal Museum for Central Africa - Periodic on-line exhibitions as well as a guide to the Brussells museum. Includes a search facility for finding websites with information about central Africa.

• Charles Jones African Art - Traditional African art, mainly from Zaire, West Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, and Ethiopia. Many images and explanations of cultural significance of the objects.

• Dimondstein, Inc. - Dealer in African art, with periodic exhibitions.

• Emory University Collection of African Art - An exhibition of part of the university's permanent collection of African art. Good accompanying essays on various aspects of African art.

• Ethnographica - African Art and Oriental Rugs - Commercial site with beautiful, high-powered graphics. But navigation is limited unless display resolution exceeds 800 x 600.

• Fowler Museum of Cultural History - Includes exhibitions and information about tribal arts.

• Galerie Peter Herrmann - A commercial gallery. Bilingual (German and English), with many images of African items. Also has a section describing ongoing African art related exhibitions and events elsewhere.

• Hamill Gallery of African Art - A commercial site with nicely documented thematic exhibitions that change every few months. Past exhibitions are viewable as well.

• H+K Gallery - Gallery with many images and some cultural information. In English and German.

• Kate Peck Kent Collection of West African Textiles - Exhibition and background information on textiles from west Africa.

• Kente Cloth - Nice source of information about "Kente" cloth.

• Museum for African Art - New York's Museum for African Art.

• National Gallery - Zimbabwe - Museum site with exhibitions and information about Zimbabwe art.

• National Museum of African Art - The National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution. Site includes exhibitions, articles, museum calendar of events.

• Nigerian Art and Culture - Collection of photos taken during the 1930's, many showing SE Nigerian masks being danced.

• Nok Museum - A virtual museum with exhibitions, articles, a discussion board, and several other features "under construction" as of May 1999.

• Picard Trade Bead Museum And African Art Gallery - Dealer in African art and trade beads, with a trade bead museum.

• Ralph Proctor Gallery - A gallery of African art, with periodic thematic exhibitions.

• Senufo Art - Brief description of the Senufo aesthetic tradition; part of an auction house series.

• Shona Sculpture - A collection of 67 Shona sculptures from Zimbabwe, with some history of this genre.

• The Sissoko House of Art - Dealer, primarily in central and west African arts. Some cultural information and periodic exhibitions.

• Sukuma Museum - Museum devoted to the culture and art of the Sukuma (Tanzania, Africa).

• Tamarin Gallery - A gallery of African art. Periodic exhibitions and an excellent collection of links to other sources.

• Tellem Gallery - Sculpture (masks, statuettes, etc.) and jewelry from many African regions; pre-Columbian art and pottery.

• Virtual Museum of Burkina Faso - Rich source of information on arts and culture of Burkina Faso. In French.

• The World of Beduin Weaving - Extensive information on weaving by the Bedouins of North Africa.