Molly Brown House Museum

Awesome house turned into museum!
For those of you who have no idea who is Molly Brown (like me) she is the lady in the movie Titanic that the other stuck up rich ladies dislike.
It turns out she was a really influential person in Colorado, not just someone who was unlucky enough to be in that cruise. Her story is just wonderful; really interesting.
The house is amazing! And the tour girl, Cat, went above and beyond while narrating her story. She was Hilarious!

Good place to learn some visit and hear some good stories. I liked that they told the truthful stories and which were false stories. They have done a lot to try and restore the place to is original way. The parking here is complicated and there are not many places to park so prepare for extra time to find a place.

Kiddo is currently reading about the Titanic in school so we made a trip here yesterday to hear and see more about Margaret Brown and deepen the learning. Approx 1hr tour was fun and informative. Wish the entire house was available for a tour. We would have loved to see the 3^rd floor and servants quarters but the tour stopped at the second floor.

(Based on 3.5 stars)
No photos are allowed inside the house.
When planning my trip out to Denver, I went into nerd mode and told my husband that we had to visit the Molly Brown House on our trip. Molly Brown house is famous for surviving the Titanic and so I just knew I had to visit it.
So on Thursday, September 17, my husband and I arrived around 11:30 am and paid for our admission and waiting for the 12 pm tour ($ 8 for adults and $ 7 for college students with ID) in the gift shop (there is a unisex, single toilet here in case you need to use the restroom prior to your tour).
Right around 12, our docent came out (all dressed in a dress that seems fitting for the time era) and lead us over to the house (she did not check anyone’s tickets though). Since there is no air conditioning (wouldn’t recommend you come here in the summer), she passed out some fans to use during our tour and began by telling us the history of the famous Margaret Brown. She was actually never called Molly Brown by eventually was referred as Molly well after she had passed away.
Margaret Brown was born to an Irish immigrant family in Missouri. She and her brother eventually moved out to Colorado. After only being in Colorado for 1 week, she met J.J. Brown at church. He was a mining engineer and perused Margaret, despite having no interest in him whatsoever (and according to our docent, he knew it. talk about nice guys finishing last huh?). Although J.J. Brown had no money at the time of marrying Margaret, he eventually earned a significant amount over time. According to our docent, Margaret loved what money could do and what doors could be opened (who wouldn’t?).
Fast forward, some highlights of Margaret Brown’s life includes becoming an active social reformer in which she helped with adding a playground and summer school program for poor children in Denver. She supported many charities, in particular that helped women and children. She survived the Titanic when it was hit on the night of April 14, 1912. She helped passengers evacuate onto the lifeboats (although women and children were to be evacuated first, she wants to have the men evacuated as well). After surviving this tragedy, she organized a relief effort for other survivors.
On this tour, I did learn a good amount of interesting things about Margaret Brown and really did enjoy seeing her home and old photos of her and her family. But both my husband and I felt that our docent seemed kind of snobby. And I wished there was more information on this tour, as I had learned more about Margaret Brown on my own (after this tour, it inspired me to read more about her).
But I still think the Molly Brown House is worth checking out if you are in Denver and are a history person.
By the way, my husband and I parked in the residential street (free) and walked a few blocks over. Be aware of the parking time limits.

Great tour by Faith! Really enjoyed the information she provided. The house is pretty cool and can’t wait to return after renovation is complete. There are quite a few original pieces in the house which is pretty amazing that they were able to obtain.
This is not a place that a self guided tour would work. Number one you would miss out on bits and pieces of info from guide and there are too many people who don’t appreciate the history of the building and if left alone may damage the integrity. I am even more intrigued by Margaret Brown’s story because of the tour and more info can be received from a book about her. The book/​gift shop had some nice items and a film you can watch. Our tickets were free because I jumped on the annual Smithsonian Museum Day Live which was promoted over a month ago. However this tour is definitely worth the $ 8 charged for adults. Great Denver tour.

This was a very informative your. I went into this only knowing what the film «The Unsinkable Molly Brown» had taught me about Margaret Brown. It was nice to learn her true history and all the amazing things she did. The downside, however, was that my tour guide was over animated and over rehearsed. She did offer up a ton of great facts and was ready to answer any questions anyone had.
The gift shop was very nice too. They had a lot of interesting items and also offered books on Margaret Brown (which are hard to find).

I went here this past weekend and its decent for the price. I would say to make it better is by going when the crowds are smaller like around 10 or less. We had probably 20 plus people in which in that small house you couldn’t really enjoy the look around or hear the woman talking if you were in the back. However, it is a neat place and very inexpensive, so if you are in town then stop on by.

I really enjoyed my tour of the Molly Brown House Museum. Very inexpensive & you learn that she is nothing like how she was portrayed in the movie The Titanic. The only thing I didn’t like was that we were not allowed to take pictures of the inside of the house. Also, our group had 20 people in it which seemed like a lot because the areas we visited in the house weren’t that big. The porch was also under renovation which ruined any pictures we could have taken (not that that was their fault at all). I would recommend visiting to anyone going to Denver.

Unsinkable, into women’s rights, ahead of her time perhaps? That was Margaret Brown! She came to be known as Molly Brown way after death, based on the play the unsinkable Molly Brown. According to the docents at the museum, nobody ever called her Molly Brown as you probably already know.
The home is a 7000 square-​foot plus house. It is old. There is no air conditioning in the summertime. It is hot inside the house. Sadly, very few of the furniture in the home is original. So this place is really just the footprints of where Margaret Brown used to reside while in Denver.
Is it worth a visit? Sure. I would definitely visit other places first as a tourist in Denver, such as the capital and the Denver Art Museum before paying homage here! However, if you have the time, visit here and the Kirkland as they are close in proximity to each other and are quirky in their own ways then your average run of the mill museum.

Meh… It is fun to see for the movie buffs out there. Gives a little backbone to the story and the history. I realize that there are resources involved in caring for these things, but I just feel like the cost was little steep for what we learned at $ 8.00 a person. Great if you are really into this part of history. We just kind of wanted to run through the house. We didn’t need a guided tour and we certainly didn’t need to be treated poorly. I felt bad for the older couple with us. They were so excited, but the guide rushed us and seemed very impatient with their questions. And… it was fricken hot!

We visited on a Saturday afternoon during the summer. The tour guide was rude, spoke too fast, and did not seem to have patience with children. She did offer up interesting facts on Molly Brown, but just graced the surface of Ms. Brown’s amazing life. The home was not where Brown stayed and therefore, does not really show the character of the woman. She used it as a rental for most of her ownership while she stayed at a hotel when in town. The home itself is dark, cluttered, not ventilated, and small. I would have limited the group to no more than 5 to keep the tour under control and enable more questions and time to look around. The tour itself was rushed and did not feel hospitable. I think that if the tour was revamped to include more personal details about Brown and her family, then it would be more interesting. The carriage house offered more information than the tour did! Also, I think that self guided tours would be more beneficial than the guided tour due to the size of the home. No pictures are allowed, but the home is too dark for pictures. I live in a 1902 Victorian and they are built to let the light in! The museum should open the windows and allow breezes to refresh the stuffy house and reflect sunlight like it was meant to.

Very nice house with lots of information by the docent. Learned that «The Unsinkable Molly Brown» and «The Titanic» are fiction. Margaret was an interesting woman and a plus for Denver.

If you have ever heard of the Titanic, or know something about Denver’s Gold Rush, or women’s rights, then you need to visit the Molly Brown House Museum. This is one of the houses that Margaret Brown and her husband owned, here in Denver. It is an old, historic home, with many items/​things in the house from back then (early 1900s), which includes no air conditioning (just be warned, if it’s hot outside, it’s hot inside). The tour is very interesting, and you leave wanting to know more, which is a good thing.
You will do lots and lots of walking. The tour is intersting, and it’s tme well spent.

My friend and I left the Molly Brown House desperate to know more. We immediately hit the Wikipedia page, only to realize that everything covered on the tour seemed to come straight from there. And that’s when I realized… maybe this tour wasn’t really worth it.
In hindsight, I should have been skeptical based on how many times my tour guide said «She was an awesome woman!» I paid for facts, lady!
The tour guide was very focused on Molly’s determination to give her parents luxury. Very little time and attention was paid to her experiences on the Titanic or her political career — the latter of which was likely the most interesting, but underexplained. A lot of time was paid to her daughter and hardly any to her son. Who decides what will and will not be covered on the tour?
The tour guide pointed out all original pieces in each room. This would be more interesting if the original pieces were more thrilling than an umbrella stand and a clock.
Don’t get me wrong — the house is gorgeous! But the experience left a lot to be desired. I was initially put off by the fact that our tour guide was carrying her car keys and wallet the whole time… but naturally, the lack of substantive information stole my attention.
It is certainly worth stopping by, but if you can wait for an opportunity to land a free tour, definitely save your dollars lest you enjoy the sensation of regret.

For $ 8 it’s fun to get to snoop through someone else’s house.
The tour was an easy walk through the house, although it was a little uncomfortable during the unseasonably warm March weather we encountered on our trip. I enjoyed the bits of history, though it seems that not a lot of furniture in the house actually belonged to Brown. My favorite part was the kitchen (obvi), with all of the cute appliances and the amazing pantries.
Considering Denver doesn’t have a whole lot of things to see or do for someone coming from the Bay Area (correct me if I’m wrong), this was a nice little tour to see something unique to the area.
The gift shop has a lot of fun little souvenirs to bring home, both Titanic-​themed and otherwise.

For $ 8 it’s a pretty nice way to spend an afternoon.
The tour is pretty short, it’s about 30ish minutes and a guide walks with you throughout the tour. I liked that, I’m not a huge fan of the typical self-​guided tour so I appreciated having a human walk us through the house. I wished that we would have be able to see a little bit more of the house, I think we only saw half of the house, but I realize that it’s old and they probably don’t want it to deteriorate due to a high volume of people stomping around the house. It was certainly informative and though Molly Brown is famously know for being on the Titanic, I felt like the that was only a small portion of the tour so it was nice to learn a little bit more about her. The house itself was restored very well, so I certainly appreciated the architecture.
Cool way to spend an afternoon, but if you miss it it’s not the end of the world. If you are not able bodied (narrow stairs only) you can watch a video in the gift shop which is pretty interesting.

Ok. Once. the tour guides were almost surly, and they spent a great amount of time telling us what DIDN’T actually belong to the Brown’s…overall was negative mroe than positive. the house is interesting, most of the narrative about the brown’s is specualtive and could almost be a guest. worth seeing once.

Highly recommend taking the tour of this place. I think it is worth the $ 8 tour price which lasted for about an hour. The tour guides are very knowledgeable and we were a small group so all of our questions were answered as we toured the house. It’s a good peek on how the houses of the rich in those times were decorated. Will make you be glad of our current living conditions if most of us are «poor» next to Molly Brown!
Sad pictures aren’t allowed, but guess that’s understandable or people will stop visiting. The gift shop is worth a look and the staff in there is very friendly.

I cannot believe this home was almost torn down in the 1970s! I’m happy it’s been preserved and is now historically protected and operates as the Molly Brown House Museum.
If you live in Denver or are just visiting and want to learn more about both Margaret «Molly» Brown and Denver in the early 20^th century, this one-​hour tour is worth going on. Besides, it’s only $ 8!
For me, the most interesting part of the tour was seeing the architecture and interior design, since the Molly Brown house is only 8 years older than my own home. However, our tour guide was great — funny and engaging– and imparted a lot of Molly Brown information and Denver trivia.
Tours run every 30 minutes and tickets are sold in the carriage house in the back. My husband and I went on the 10:30 tour and as we were downstairs, the 10:00 tour group was finishing up upstairs. It was kind of hard to hear our tour guide at one point because the group upstairs was talking and walking around. Really, that’s the only thing stopping me from giving this local museum 5 stars.

What a fun tour! The guides dress up in period clothing and give you so much information about Margaret Brown (Molly is a Hollywood name!) and her family as well as life back then in Denver. I learned so much about her and the political initiatives she started; it was very educational and definitely worthwhile. I don’t want to spoil all the fun tidbits you learn during the tour because you should go and hear about them first hand.
Tip: Go during Doors Open Denver– it is free!