DAM Ticketing

Create & Play is an early-childhood program at the Denver Art Museum for families with children ages 0-5 (though siblings are always welcome too!). Create & Play offers a range of experiences within the museum, including time close looking at art in the galleries, artmaking, and a participatory performance.

Join us for our annual Día del Niño (Children's Day) festivities, a global celebration of children, with a wide variety of live music, dance performances, art making, and free general admission for everyone.

April 27 is a Free Day at the DAM. Advanced reservation is recommended, but not required.

The museum’s Sensory-Friendly Mornings is a program for kids with neurodiversity or sensory processing disorders and their families to visit the museum in a safe and fun way. The museum will open early, dim the lights, and provide tools to aid and guide a sensory-friendly experience for the whole family.

Please note that the exhibition is filled with over 400 wonderful artworks and delightful surprises. We recommend planning to spend at least 1 1/2-2 hours in the exhibition to ensure you see it all.

This ticket includes General Admission to the museum. To purchase a General Admission ticket without access to Wild Things, click here.

Wild Things: The Art of Maurice Sendak presents more than 400 artworks created by Maurice Sendak. One of the most versatile artists of the twentieth century, Sendak is best known for picture books, especially the award-winning titles Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There, and Nutshell Library. He also designed theater sets and collaborated on films.

Wild Things is named after Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, the beloved children’s book he authored in 1963 that became a cultural touchstone. The exhibition's title signals to all the beauty, whimsy, and mischief that his art inspired over his 65-year career. Visitors will see unique examples of Sendak’s timeless art, such as the final artworks for Where the Wild Things Are, and get a sense of his extraordinary skill and his deep understanding of the process of creating picture books and designs for the stage, television, and film productions. The show will include a wide array of drawings, paintings, posters, and mockups for books. It will also include set designs for the Where the Wild Things Are opera and the costumes for the live-action, feature-length film.

Alongside Sendak’s work, Wild Things will showcase works by other artists that Sendak collected throughout his life, tracing the origins of his creativity to William Blake, Winsor McCay, Beatrix Potter, George Stubbs, and Walt Disney. Sendak’s collaborations with distinguished directors, composers, writers, and choreographers such as Carroll Ballard, Frank Corsaro, Carole King, Spike Jonze, Tony Kushner, among many others, are also illuminated throughout the exhibition.

Please select the date you would like to visit the Denver Art Museum. Your tickets will be valid for the entire day.

Engage with art, explore onsite activities, and experience exhibitions on view all while enjoying free general admission! Advanced reservations are always recommended, but not required.

Free days in 2025 include:

• Tuesday, January 14
• Saturday, February 22
• Tuesday, March 11
• Tuesday, April 8
• Sunday, April 27
• Tuesday, May 13
• Tuesday, June 10
• Tuesday, July 8
• Sunday, July 27
• Tuesday, August 12
• Saturday, September 6
• Tuesday, September 9
• Tuesday, October 14
• Saturday, November 8
• Tuesday, December 9

Please be aware general admission does not include entry to ticketed exhibitions.