The Collections
The permanent collections at the Global Village Museum comprise over 2,500 artworks and artifacts spanning time and place, offering a glimpse at the world’s visual culture. Sourced from the Northern Colorado community, these objects highlight global sensibilities right in our own backyard.
Interested in learning more or making an appointment to visit the collections? Contact Sam Hensley at collections@globalvillagemuseum.org.
Please note that the Museum is not accepting new donations to the collections at this time.
Collection Areas
Explore just a small sample of what the Museum’s collections have to offer. Collections inventory and research is ongoing, so check back soon!
Jeanne Nash Losel Doll Collection
Losel dolls are named for the Drepung Loseling Monastery in Kamataka, India, where they were created from 1983 to 2003 by Tibetan Buddhist monks living in exile. The dolls served as both a stream of financial support for the monks and monastery and a way to preserve traditional Tibetan heritage and artmaking techniques for a global audience. This collection was started by Museum founder Jeanne Nash, who was a steadfast supporter throughout the project’s twenty-year run.
The Nash Losel Doll Collection is currently one of the largest collections of Losel dolls in the world, second only to the Norbulingka Institute in Dharamsala, India.
Andrea and Irv Green Huxian Paintings Collection
Ostensibly created by amateur worker-peasant-soldier artists in rural China, paintings of the Huxian Peasant Painting movement depicted a thriving socialist countryside filled with abundant harvests, industrious laborers, and a joyful collective life. In reality, these artists were formally trained under the guidance of the Chinese Communist Party, and their works were later mass-produced and distributed as posters, embedding propaganda into the visual culture of daily life.
Donated to the Museum in 2019 by Andrea and Irv Green, the nearly 100 paintings in this collection span the 1970s through the early 2000s and engage with (and sometimes subtly challenge) the state ideology of the Mao era.
Todd Cornell Cultural Revolution Collection
One of the Museum’s newest acquisitions, the Cornell Collection visualizes the social and political landscape of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) of Maoist China. It comprises over 500 pieces of Mao-era memorabilia, including publications, prints, textiles, and everyday items, reflecting a time when art and beauty were weaponized to inspire political loyalty.
Collected by linguist Todd Cornell over more than 20 years spent living and working in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, the collection began in the 1990s with a copy of The Little Red Book—the ubiquitous symbol of Maoist ideology—and the rest was history. The Cornell Collection was first exhibited at GVM in 2025 in Echoes of the Red Era: The Aesthetics of Chinese Propaganda.
Nash Family Mundoville Collection
Throughout her life, Museum founder Jeanne Nash practiced a variety of arts, including knitting, weaving, jewelry making, and designing. These skills came together in one of her largest projects: creating Mundoville, a collection of international miniatures, scale models, and folk art representing cultures from around the world. Nash envisioned a future where, if people from disparate backgrounds knew more about one another, the world would have less conflict and would be a better place.
Nash founded what is now the Global Village Museum in 2006 as the Mundoville Museum, a “world village” dedicated to showcasing international unity in miniature. Pieces from the Mundoville Collection are permanently on-view in the Museum’s Mundoville galleries, honoring this initial vision.
Stewart Price Japanese Art and Artifacts Collection
Left to the Museum by co-founder Stewart Price, the Price Collection was built over 40 years of living and working in Japan as a teacher for the US Department of Defense. Price first moved to Japan at the age of 24, teaching English, social studies, humanities, and art history in schools in Okinawa and mainland Japan. The Price Collection reflects the popular visual culture of his time spent there, and consists largely of ceramics, woodwork, and textiles.
The Price Collection was the foundation for the Museum’s first exhibition in its current home, The Splendors of Japan, in 2011, and pieces of the collection have been mainstays of displays in the John E. Roberts Village Arts Gallery ever since.
Warren and Genny Garst International Collection
Photographers and zoologists Warren and Genny Garst built their collection of international artifacts over 25 years working on Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom nature documentary series, traveling to over 100 countries to photograph and film native wildlife. The Garsts would spend nine months at a time filming for the show on-location, periods during which they were equally interested in getting to know the people and stories of the places they visited.
The Garst Collection is primarily comprised of ethnographic artifacts and global folk art, representing cultures from Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Arctic. It came to the Museum permanently following the 2015 retrospective exhibition, Wild Kingdom Revisited: Warren & Genny Garst International Collection.
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