Children's Museum Opens Doors on $2.5 Million Renovation

The Children’s Museum of Denver, which is toured by 250,000 children annually, has completed a $2.5 million renovation – the biggest since it opened 17 years ago in the Lower Platte Valley.

“When we moved here in 1983, we were pioneers,” Wendy Holmes, spokeswoman for the 9,000-sf museum, told GlobeSt.com. Today, its neighbors include the one-year-old Colorado’s Ocean Journey, a $100 million aquarium; an REI sporting goods store housed in a renovated transportation museum; Elitch’s, a Six Flags Amusement Park; and the Pepsi Center, the new home of the Denver Nuggets basketball team and Colorado Avalanche, Denver’s hockey team. The museum is positioned on three acres along Water St.

The museum’s 3,700-sf renovation of the 9,000-sf facility, which sits on three acres along Water St., reflects its mission to better serve younger children, setting up interactive playscapes as a result of recommendations from the White Oak Associates in Marblehead, MA., which completed its study three years ago for the Denver museum.