Museo de las Americas Director Eyes Expansion in Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe

Museo de las Americas will celebrate its 32nd anniversary on Thursday, April 20, with a small fundraising event, but Executive Director Claudia Moran has big plans for the museum devoted to Latino arts and culture.

Moran, who’s been leading the Museo for almost five years, is contemplating expanding both the building’s size and the number of programs it offers. “More artists will have the opportunity to show their work, more conversations will happen, more change will happen, more minds will change and be impacted,” she says. “Museums are very positive and very important, and should be part of our community.”

She envisions the Museo perhaps growing into the properties next door, or maybe upwards; any expansion would be “shaped by what the community needs,” she says, referring not…