The article highlights Denver's significant cultural achievements in 2024, emphasizing the impact of free youth admission at the Denver Art Museum and the legacy of Denver's Civic Center.
Denver Art Museum staff puts the finishing touches on a new exhibit featuring children’s author and illustrator Maurice Sendak in Denver on Oct. 9, 2024. Here, books printed in different languages from around the world are on display. The museum welcomes its millionth free youth visitor this year. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)Some of Denver’s most important cultural milestones of 2024 came as a surprise.
Others were the long-awaited results of good ideas hatched years ago — and the hard work and sacrifices of people who dedicate their lives to making the arts thrive here. But these moments to remember have one thing in common: they developed out of bold and brave beliefs in the city’s potential to be a vibrant, engaging, energetic, accessible — and very human — place for culture.In 2015, the Denver Art Museum opened its doors free to visitors 18 and under, meaning they don’t have to pay a penny to see a Picasso, not a dollar to spend the afternoon with a Degas. The move eased the financial burden for parents trying to expose their children to the best culture the city has to offer and made possible scores of school field trips. The program has been a whopping success and a national model on how to make the arts available to more people, and this year, it reached a milestone — the millionth free, young visitor entered the museum.The area near the Colorado State Capitol in Denver will soon see a pedestrian bridge that connects the capitol area with Civic Center. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)Every generation owes something to the ones that come after it, and that payment is often made through the construction of parks and monuments that are meant to last the ages. Denver’s Civic Center, built a century ago, was such a gift and it has done its job (for the most part) with grace and beauty. It is where we gather, by the tens of thousands, to celebrate who we are as diverse and vibrant Coloradan
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