MCA Denver

MCA Denver is a non-collecting contemporary art museum in the Central Platte Valley whose programming stretches beyond the galleries into music, with sporadic shows held both at the museum itself and at the 400-capacity Holiday Theater, a nearby extension of the institution. A Friday-night music series takes over the rooftop garden through July and August, giving the museum one of Denver's more distinctive summer music settings. For guests, it is a chance to combine contemporary art with a concert in an atypical space; for artists, the museum's audience is culturally engaged in a way that most bar-and-band rooms cannot match.