>Patrons Lisa Moller (right) and her mom, Ellie Moller, take in the scene at the Denver Art Museum on March 3, 2021. (AAron Ontiveroz, The Denver Post)
Every successful museum director leaves a legacy with the institution he or she leads. In the case of Christoph Heinrich, who has headed the Denver Art Museum since 2010, that will most likely center around the significant expansion of 19th-century European paintings in DAM’s collection.
That’s saying something, since Heinrich has, in the same period, guided the museum through considerable development of its physical space, including the addition of a 50,000-square-foot administration building and the about-to-debut renovation and expansion of its historic, Gio Ponti-designed Martin Building. Both are benchmark moments in DAM’s 128-year history.