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Black American West Museum vs Denver Art Museum
Black American West Museum and Denver Art Museum are both rated very highly by reviewers writing for major publications. On balance, Denver Art Museum is preferred by most writers compared to Black American West Museum. Denver Art Museum is ranked #1 in Denver with accolades from 8 reviewers such as Condé Nast Traveler, Frommer's and Michelin Guide.
Black American West Museum
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Lonely Planet
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Fodor's
3091 California St, Denver, CO 80205
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Frommer's
"Nearly one-third of the cowboys in the Old West were black, and this museum chronicles their little-known history, along with that of black doctors, teachers... and state legislators."
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Lonely Planet
Top Choice
"This excellent museum is dedicated to ‘telling history how it was’."
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Afar Magazine
"uilt in 1971, in the home of Dr. Justina Ford, Colorado's first black female doctor, to collect, preserve, and disseminate the contributions of African Americans."
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"Housed in the Victorian home of Denver's first black woman doctor, this museum tells the story of black cowboys, doctors, miners, farmers and other figures who helped build the West."
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Fodor's
"The revealing documents and artifacts here depict the vast contributions that African-Americans made to opening up the West."
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Denver Art Museum
Fodor's
Lonely Planet
Travel + Leisure
Michelin Guide
Afar Magazine
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13th Avenue between Broadway and Bannock Streets, Denver, CO 80204
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Fodor's
"Unique displays of Asian, pre-Columbian, Spanish Colonial, and Native American art are the hallmarks of this model of museum design."
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Lonely Planet
Top Choice
"The DAM is home to one of the largest Native American art collections in the USA, and puts on special avant-garde multimedia exhibits."
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Travel + Leisure
"One of the West's largest art institutions, the Denver Art Museum has been showcasing collections in its 210,000–square-foot North Building since the 1970s."
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Michelin Guide
2 Stars
"This thin, twin-towered building (Gio Ponti), faced in iridescent tile, is a modern fortress looming over Civic Center Plaza."
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Highlights include Monet's Waterloo Bridge (1903) and Warhol's Liz (1965).
Afar Magazine
"The art museum's Hamilton Building gets the bulk of traffic, and it deserves it. But don't forget to check out the North Building."
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