About AMWA

The American Museum of Western Art —The Anschutz Collection (AMWA) is a unique art museum in the heart of downtown Denver, Colorado. Located in the historic Navarre Building, the Museum was established in 2010 to create a permanent home for the Western American art collection of Phillip F. Anschutz. The collection was built over a fifty-year period as a survey of Western American art created from the early nineteenth century to the present day. The three floors of galleries reveal a range of styles and subject matter, from the historic to the contemporary. The paintings are displayed salon style, in keeping with the Navarre Building’s Victorian origins, and allows the Museum to keep the majority of the Collection on view.

Our Mission

It is the mission of the American Museum of Western Art (AMWA) to promote the public’s understanding and appreciation of art depicting the American West from the early 1800s through the present day. The art presented is intended to give the public a better understanding and appreciation of the character, history, and beauty of the American West and the peoples, individuals, and ideas that transformed it over time.