ATTENTION KIDS OF ALL AGES! On
Saturday, April 12, come and marvel at a miniature western town--complete with a working railroad--made entirely out of Legos and presented by the Colorado-Wyoming LEGO Users Group, at the
Colorado History Museum (
www.coloradohistory.org), 1300 Broadway.
Museum admission is free all day April 12 for Doors Open Denver!
While you're there, create a model of the museum's planked house (built in Denver in 1859 and part of the museum exhibits), make a tipi, or recreate 1860s Denver from magnetic buildings.
These free Let's Make History activities are offered between 1 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Enhance your LEGO experience by learning how to make a western building out of LEGO bricks and get expert construction tips from the Colorado-Wyoming LEGO Users Group. Materials will be provided. The cost for this Second Saturday program $3. Call 303/866-4686 to reserve your spot. Space is limited to 20 participants.
Museum admission is also FREE at the Byers-Evans House Museum (
www.coloradohistory.org/be), 1310 Bannock Street, on April 12 for Doors Open Denver. The house museum will host tours and you can see the exhibit
Myron Wood: Photographs of the West, a retrospective exhibition by the renowned Colorado Springs photographer, Myron Wood (1921-1999). Wood embarked on several photographic projects documenting the landscape, architecture and indigenous peoples of southwestern Colorado and northern New Mexico. Vintage prints of Wood's unique relationship with the secretive Penitente Brotherhood, as well as his studies of artist Georgia O'Keeffe are included in the show. Images in this exhibition -
Myron Wood: Photographs of the West - represent the rich diversity of subjects and themes that distinguished Wood's unique vision of the West. For more information, visit
www.coloradohistory.org/be.