Editor's Note: Cartoonist Noah Van Sciver brings us his trip to the Denver Art Museum in this web comic. Make sure you read Noah's blog for more comics and wonderment.

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Roxanne Swentzell and Bill Steen work on her ten-foot sculpture, called "Mud Woman Rolls On," using straw wattles and Colorado adobe. Vew more photos.

​"This is the first time a museum has ever explored one material across its collections, and I think Marvelous Mud will shatter expectations of clay," says Denver Art Museum director Christoph Henrich. Photos from the opening day of that exhibit, Saturday, June 11, 2011. Photos by Kelly Kaoudis. See the full Marvelous Mud slideshow here.
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Ben Dayton approves.

​When you walk into the Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, which opens today, the first thing you do is watch a short movie, one of those PBS-style hist-umentaries with the vaguely English-sounding narrator, the scrolling/zooming over photos and paintings and the occasional reenactment. You know the kind. After the movie's over, they let you into the actual exhibit -- and it's sort of like that movie fell out of the screen like in Voyage of the Dawn Treader and now you are actually inhabiting it.

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​While the majority of programs at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science are family-friendly, The Science Lounge is strictly 21-plus only -- meaning you get to drink beer while looking at old, dead stuff. But the monthly program aimed a mature audience is more than just an after-hours wander through some of the museum's cavernous halls; It is also a chance for open discussion on a rotating exhibit-related topic.

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