Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art

Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, in Denver, Colorado, allows visitors (ages 13+ only*) to time travel through about 150 years of art. The evolving collections contain over 30,000 works by more than 1,500 artists and designers, with about 4,400 works on view. The three principal collections are all shown together in salon style:

• A celebrated international decorative art collection from the 1870s to the present with examples of every major design period from Arts & Crafts through Postmodern
• A Colorado & regional art collection from 1845 to the present
• A retrospective of Colorado’s distinguished painter, Vance Kirkland (1904–1981)

*Please note that due to the fragile nature of the collections and the popular but vulnerable salon style in which they are displayed, Kirkland Museum limits all visitors during open hours and events to ages 13 and up. Visitors between the ages of 13 and 17 are welcome, but must be accompanied by an adult.

Exhibits

In addition to the permanent collection always on view throughout Kirkland Museum, the following temporary exhibition will also be included with admission:

TEMPORARY EXHIBITION GALLERY 12
"Frank Lloyd Wright Inside the Walls" features decorative art objects from Kirkland Museum’s permanent collection designed by Wright (1867–1959) for 11 architectural projects, spanning 50 years of his 70-year career. Frank Lloyd Wright is the most influential and well-known American architect of our time. Known for his iconic buildings, Wright also designed furniture and accessories for the inside of his structures in order to fulfill his vision of a complete work of art. By exhibiting furniture, tableware and art glass with historic photographs of their original settings, visitors are invited to consider how each object reflects the unified vision—the total work of art—Wright designed.

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