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Field Trips

The American Museum of Western Art depicts the American West from the early 1800s through the present day. The art presented is intended to give and understanding and appreciation of the character, history, and beauty of the American West.

The Black American West Museum and Heritage Center is a museum dedicated to telling the story of African American men and women who helped to settle and develop the American West, including Black cowboys.

The Byers–Evans House is the home of History Colorado’s Center for Colorado Women’s History. The Center is a history museum that focuses on the bold stories, memories, and experiences of women of Colorado.

The Children’s Museum of Denver is located in a 46,902 square foot building on a 9-acre campus and has 20 exhibits. Our exhibits are hands-on, interactive and totally one-of-a-kind.

The Denver Art Museum today is one of the largest art museums between Chicago and the West Coast. The museum’s global art collections represent cultures around the world, with more than 70,000 works of art in 12 collections.

The Denver Botanic Gardens is a public 23-acre park that contains a conservatory, a variety of theme gardens with seven living collections, two natural history collections (herbaria), an arthropods collection, art collections and a library.

The Denver Firefighters Museum is to preserve the history of the Denver Fire Department and  firefighting through the collection and preservation of artifacts, documents and photographs. The Museum also educates the  public about fire safety.

The Denver Museum of Nature and Science has over 250,000 square feet of event space which includes the award-winning Wildlife Diorama Halls, Coors gems & minerals, Space Odyssey, and our famous dinosaurs within Prehistoric Journey.

Denver Zoo is dedicated to providing intimate, inspiring and informative first-hand encounter with the wonders of nature on their 84-acre campus, where 3,000+ wonderful wild animals serve as ambassadors for their wild counterparts all over the world.

The Downtown Aquarium is a public aquarium with more than a million gallons of underwater exhibits that highlight fascinating ecosystems around the world with  over 500 species of animals and the interactive Stingray Reef touch tank.

The Forney Museum of Transportation is a one-of-a-kind collection of over 800 artifacts relating to historical transportation, which exists to collect, preserve, and exhibit items of artistic, historical and technological interest relating to transportation for the purposes of education.

Artifacts, stories, and art intermingle at the History Colorado Center to tell the tale of Colorado and the American West. The museum is designed for multi-generational audiences with interactive elements in the majority of the more than fifteen exhibitions that span four floors.