Exterior Architectural Detail Of The Molly Brown House Museum In Denver, Colorado

If you've ever wanted to move to Colorado, the time is perfect to start experiencing Denver. Jamie Melissa Wilms, the director of education at the Molly Brown House, joined Chloe Veltman, host of CPR's weekly arts show, The Colorado Art Report,” in studio earlier this week to talk about the narratives that unfold through these photographs. The house has been restored with period furniture and the elegance that it had when the "unsinkable Molly Brown" was alive.

The museum is a historic, multi-level, Victorian home and is only accessible to wheelchairs on the first floor. Brown's life has been depicted on stage, in movies, and television in both fact and fiction. Home of the "Unsinkable" Molly Brown, Titanic heroine, restored to its original Victorian splendor.

That's no small feat for one of Denver's most iconic and heavily visited structures, which welcomes an average of 60,000 people per year and doubles as the birthplace of Historic Denver, the private, nonprofit organization that saved it from demolition nearly a half-century ago.

On the third floor, just across from a sun-drenched room that serves high tea, a servant's quarters has been re-created that recalls the pivotal roles of Mary Mulligan (Margaret Brown's seamstress and maid, who traveled around the world with Brown and replicated her exotic shopping purchases) and Mary Fitzharris (an Irish immigrant whose story helped inspire a new Historic Denver focus on Irish history in Colorado).

Brown's and Lindsey's Denver juvenile court formed the basis of the modern juvenile justice system. The Browns always had a lot of people staying with them, either family or servants. Colorado The birthplace and museum tell the life and history of Margaret Tobin Brown, famously known as Unsinkable Molly Brown because Brown survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.

Throughout her life, Brown used her family name and money to fight for causes such as children's literacy, historical preservation, miner's rights, and women's suffrage. Margaret Brown was in a lifeboat like this when rescued. The Little Johnny yielded the largest vein of pure gold the Leadville mining community had ever seen.

Visitors can see the Molly Brown House by taking a tour through it. All tours are guided and take about 45 minutes. Margaret Brown saved many passengers' lives by helping them evacuate the Titanic. When her children were young, she was involved in the early feminist movement in Leadville and aided the establishment of the Colorado chapter of the National American Women's Suffrage Association.