Here are current and upcoming exhibitions catching our eyes:

• "Conversation Pieces" will display more than 60 designs — many for the first time — from the museums collection, including a gown donated by the wife of the man who designed DAM, Gio Ponti. Now on view.
• "Knife Fork Spoon" will bend your mind with utensils straight out of a Dr. Seuss book, featuring 150 flatware sets from 1900 to 2026. Debuts May 17.
• "Space Is the Place" explores designs from the Space Age, the Cold War-era time when everyday objects took on futuristic aesthetics with rounded designs and bold colors. Now on view.
• "The Stars We Do Not See" will be the largest exhibition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art displayed internationally, completed in partnership with the Australia's largest museum. Debuts April 19
• "What We've Been Up To: People" features photographs of ordinary people made fascinating muses by acclaimed artists and unknown ones, spanning from the 1890s to today. Now on view.

If you go: General admission costs $22 for Colorado residents and free for those 18 and younger.

• The museum will be free April 26, May 12, June 9 and July 14.