Shop our Curator Picks book collection, including books written by past or present Denver Museum of Nature & Science curators.
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Ancient Denvers
Member's Price: $11.66
Scenes from the past 300 million years of the Colorado front range.
By Kirk Johnson and Robert G. Raynolds
Paintings by Jan Vriesen, Donna Braginetz, and Gary Staab
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I purchased three of the books and had them sent to my home in Golden. I have given them to family and friends. Buying the book from DMNS was a very positive experience. The Internet site for the DMNS shop works great. I have recently purchased three more of these books. The book is good because it helps people understand there has been different climates in the Denver area over the history of the earth. Excellent drawings, photos and explanations. The DMNS shop staff is very professional if you have questions.
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Thank you DMNS for having great gifts during the pandemic and fast shipping!
Fossilized: From the Collections of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Member's Price: $54.00
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Beautiful book! Well worth the money.
Beautiful book. So excited to gift this to my son!
Stories in Stone
Member's Price: $35.96
Stories in Stone
by Stephen Nash, Photographed by Richard Wicker
Part art catalogue and part life history, Stories in Stone tells the tale of Konovalenko’s impressive works, explaining their conception, creation, and symbolism. Each handcrafted figure depicts a scene from life in the Soviet Union—a bowman hunting snow geese, a woman reposing in a hot spring surrounded by ice, peasants spinning wool, a pair of gulag prisoners sawing lumber—painstakingly rendered in precious stones and metals. The materials used to make the figurines are worth millions of dollars, but as cultural artifacts, the sculptures are priceless. Author Stephen Nash draws upon oral history and archival research to detail the life of their creator, revealing a rags-to-riches and life-imitates-art narrative full of Cold War intrigue, Communist persecution, and capitalist exploitation.
Co-published with the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, home to the most significant collection of Russian gem-carving sculptures by Vasily Konovalenko in the world.
Paperback