Qualla: Denver Museum of Nature and Science https://qualla.com/denver-museum-of-nature-and-science en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:04 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/9/x/j/6/denver-museum-of-nature-and-science-wp/comparison-colorado-al.jpg Qualla: Denver Museum of Nature and Science https://qualla.com/denver-museum-of-nature-and-science Denver Museum of Nature and Science: Introduction https://qualla.com/denver-museum-of-nature-and-science/ Photo credit Sarbjit Bahga, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 2025, geologists drilling a test well beneath the museum's parking lot pulled up a core sample containing dinosaur bone from 763 feet underground. The institution's geology curator wanted to excavate. The parking department said no. It was exactly the kind of tension that has defined the Denver Museum of Nature and Science since 1868, when a self-taught naturalist named Edwin Carter moved into a tiny cabin in Breckenridge to single-handedly catalog every bird and mammal in the Rocky Mountains. Great discoveries often hide in unexpected places.

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]]> Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/x/j/6/denver-museum-of-nature-and-science-wp/9xj6-denver-museum-of-nature-and-science-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Denver Museum of Nature and Science: A Collection Born in a Cabin https://qualla.com/denver-museum-of-nature-and-science/ Photo credit Avrand6, CC BY-SA 4.0. Edwin Carter spent decades in his Breckenridge cabin, building one of the most complete collections of Colorado fauna in existence. Word spread. In 1892, a group of prominent Denver citizens offered to buy his entire collection for $10,000 and move it to the capital. They added a...

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]]> Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/x/j/6/denver-museum-of-nature-and-science-wp/9xj6-denver-museum-of-nature-and-science-a-collection-born-in-a-cabin.mp3 0:06 2 full Denver Museum of Nature and Science: Rewriting Human History https://qualla.com/denver-museum-of-nature-and-science/ Photo credit relaxednow, CC BY 2.0. In 1927, a team from the Colorado Museum made a discovery that changed what scientists knew about human presence in the Americas. Near Folsom, New Mexico, they found two stone projectile points embedded in the bones of an extinct bison species. These Folsom points proved that hum...

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]]> Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/x/j/6/denver-museum-of-nature-and-science-wp/9xj6-denver-museum-of-nature-and-science-rewriting-human-history.mp3 0:06 3 full Denver Museum of Nature and Science: A Million Objects in the Basement https://qualla.com/denver-museum-of-nature-and-science/ Photo credit Avrand6, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Avenir Collections Center, part of a $70 million expansion completed in 2014, holds nearly 1.5 million artifacts and specimens across two underground levels. The zoology collection alone houses over 900,000 specimens, including 780,000 insects, 52,000 birds with their eggs an...

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]]> Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/x/j/6/denver-museum-of-nature-and-science-wp/9xj6-denver-museum-of-nature-and-science-a-million-objects-in-the-basement.mp3 0:06 4 full Denver Museum of Nature and Science: Dioramas and Deep Time https://qualla.com/denver-museum-of-nature-and-science/ Photo credit Kimon Berlin, user:Gribeco, CC BY 2.5. The Wildlife Halls contain one of North America's largest collections of animal dioramas. Scenes from Botswana, the Bering Strait, and the Australian outback share space with Colorado's own ecosystems. One 1942 polar bear diorama has become iconic. A Western Brazil scene was quie...

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]]> Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/x/j/6/denver-museum-of-nature-and-science-wp/9xj6-denver-museum-of-nature-and-science-dioramas-and-deep-time.mp3 0:06 5 full Denver Museum of Nature and Science: Hidden Secrets and Open Spaces https://qualla.com/denver-museum-of-nature-and-science/ Photo credit Avrand6, CC BY-SA 4.0. Diorama painter Kent Pendleton hid eight elves throughout his work in the museum. Visitors can download scavenger hunts to find them. The Gates Planetarium features a 125-seat theater with a perforated metal dome tilted 25 degrees. The Infinity Theater, formerly the Phipps IMAX, ...

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