Creation of the Dioramas
Bringing wildlife into our halls
Silver Pin Set
From Bolivia ca. 1930
George McJunkin
African American cowboy
Wooden Plaque of the Oba of Benin
Carved by R.O. Osagiede
Founding of the Museum
Our start in 1900
Fin Whale
Balaenoptera physalus
Ghostly Fossil Bugs
Squashed in a rock
Arachnonauts
Spiders in Space
Manioc Press
Historic City Park
Our home for over 100 years
Cuneiform Tablets
Colorado's Last Grizzly Bear
A Chapter Closes
Death's-head Hawkmoth
Gargoyleousaurus
Holotype specimen
The Hikers
From Expedition Health
Navajo Blanket
Stunning fourth-phase, chief-style Navajo blanket
White-tailed jackrabbit
The largest lagomorph in Colorado
Edwin Carter Cabin
Home to a founding collection
Hadrosaur Skin Impression Fossil
Ptolemaic Egyptian Coffin
4th-3rd Century BCE coffin from Thebes
Rainbow Scarab
A sparkling emerald of a beetle collected in our own backyard
Mbuzi/Coconut Grater Stool
Ruth Underhill Field Notes
Notes from a pioneering anthropologist
Yule Marble
CO State Rock
Myrmecicultor Spider
New family of spiders
New Species Shoshonius cooperi
Museum commissioned artwork for a new species
Deep Sea Vent Mollusk
One of the most unusual mollusks
Sunset Moth
An extinct beauty
Incense Burner
Painted, polychrome jaguar effigy Maya incense burner
Gunnison Sage Grouse
Holotype specimen for the Gunnison Sage Grouse
Festive Tiger Beetle
A splendid hunter
King Island Woman and Child
From the Bailey Archives
Stick Chart
Stick chart from the Marshall Islands
Nautilus
Beauty in nature
Elephant Bird Eggs
Largest eggs of any known vertebrate
Nuchus
Balsa wood statues made by the Guna (Kuna) people
Human Kidney Tissue
Histology Slide of Human Kidney Tissue
Ghost-Faced Bat
Roofbuster
Cañon City Meteorite
Fossil Forest
A DIA Secret
Orson Welles Recording
Recording of Vision Beyond Time by Orson Welles
Tiger Beetle
Uniquely Colorado
Kissi Pennies
Money with a soul
Primo Plant
Roadside Roadkill
Kero Ceremonial Cups
Akua'ba Figure
Ghanaian fertility figure
"Many Hands Shirt"
Shirt made by Bessie Black Horn
DNA Collection
DNA Collection in the Genetics of Taste Lab
Pedicularia sicula
Symbiosis between mollusks and corals
Seal Gut Parka
Royal Kuba Masks
Plastinated Cross-section of the Human Torso
from the Gunther von Hagens Institute for Plastination
Original Saber Tooth Mold
A Museum treasure
Passenger Pigeon
Driven to extinction
Aquamarine
Captivating crystals
Grey-headed Woodpecker
The oldest bird specimen in our collection
Deep Earth Pearl
Diamond in kimberlite rock
Bosom Pals
A gem-carving sculpture by Russian artist Vasily Konovalenko
Dino Death Knell
K-Pg boundary block
Egungun Mask
Yoruba Mask from Nigeria
Mescalero Apache basket
A complicated repair
Manzonia crassa
Tiny shell close up
Cedrobaeona
Turtle Skull
Chi Wara Headdress
Killer Fish
Xiphactinus
Colorado Bison
South Park Bison
Smoky Hawk King
World’s biggest amazonite array
Metate
Tripod metate from Imperial Valley, California
Desert Blue Ball
Blister Beetle
First-phase Navajo Chief's Blanket
Ute Moccasins