Museum Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
Downtown Boulder · Boulder
A dynamic nonprofit contemporary art museum on the Pearl Street Mall presenting rotating exhibitions by regional, national, and international artists across all media.
Museums in Boulder
Boulder's cultural institutions reflect the city's university character and outdoor orientation, with the University of Colorado Art Museum at the center of a lively arts and culture scene.
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Museum CU Art Museum
University of Colorado Boulder · Boulder
The University of Colorado's free public art museum, with a permanent collection of over 5,000 works spanning photography, prints, drawings, and contemporary art.
Cultural Center Dairy Arts Center
Downtown Boulder · Boulder
Boulder's flagship multidisciplinary arts center housed in a converted 1930s dairy, presenting visual art exhibitions, film, performing arts, and artist residencies year-round.
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Boulder's Arts and Museum Scene
The University of Colorado Art Museum holds a significant collection of works on paper, photography, and contemporary art, with a particular commitment to experimental and socially engaged practice. The CU Heritage Center documents the university's history and its role in showing Colorado. The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA) presents ambitious exhibitions of contemporary work in an intimate downtown space, consistently punching above its institutional weight. The Leanin' Tree Museum of Western Art holds one of the largest privately owned collections of contemporary Western art in the country, a surprising destination for collectors of traditional and representational Western painting and sculpture. Boulder's combination of academic rigor, progressive cultural politics, and proximity to the natural world gives its museum scene a distinctive intellectual character.