The seventh annual Native Treasures Collectors’ Sale takes place on Saturday and Sunday, September 23 and 24, 2017, from 10am to 5pm at the Laboratory of Anthropology on Museum Hill. The sale is free and open to the public with early bird shopping from 9am to 10am on Saturday for a $25 admission fee. A percentage […]
The seventh annual Native Treasures Collectors’ Sale takes place on Saturday and Sunday, September 23 and 24, 2017, from 10am to 5pm at the Laboratory of Anthropology on Museum Hill. The sale is free and open to the public with early bird shopping from 9am to 10am on Saturday for a $25 admission fee. A percentage […]
The popular Museum Hill Community Day returns for the third consecutive years, but this year involves a few twists! It just so happens to be the 30th anniversary of the museum, itself; and the 80th anniversary of the Laboratory of Anthropology! Concurrent with the day is our annual Collectors’ Sale, which will be held in […]
The Museum of Spanish Colonial Arts, The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, The Santa Fe Botanical Garden, The National Park Service, The Museum of International Folk Art, and The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian are All FREE for this annual celebration. The Museum of International Folk Art celebrates the 3rd Annual Museum Hill […]
Lecture by Tom Chavez and Mark MacKenzie “Looking Over the Artist’s Shoulder: Multi Spectral Imaging Reveals hidden details of the Segesser Paintings” The lecture will discuss how conservation forensic examination reveals details of pigments used, color preparation and use, drawing and layout, genetic testing for hide identification, and expands on the details of the “life” […]
“The Ring” was a political and business combination that dominated New Mexico during much of the last half of the nineteenth century. While its very existence has been disputed, there is wide agreement among historians that the Ring was a dominant group of men who excelled at exercising political power to advance their own economic […]
New Mexico residents are admitted free the first Sunday of each month.
This Free First Sunday program is offered in collaboration with the Tom Lea Institute (El Paso, TX) during its annual Tom Lea Month. Lea spent almost three years in Santa Fe, and the surrounding area, in the early 1930s. One of his posts as a New Deal Works Progress Administration (WPA) artist was at the Museum of […]
The lecture considers the prints that served as sources of inspiration for the hide painters of eighteenth-century New Mexico. It considers how local artists came to use printed images in their work and how these paper objects both connected New Mexico to the rest of the Spanish empire and helped shape a distinctly local […]
Take a day-long insider’s tour of Acoma Pueblo and the Sky City Cultural Center & Haak’u Museum. Enroute by bus to Acoma, David Rasch, Chief of the Historic Preservation Division, City of Santa Fe, and a noted collector, will set the stage for our visit by sharing his extensive knowledge of Acoma Pottery. Upon arrival, Barbara Felix, architect of the Cultural Center complex, […]
Navajo, Laguna, Acoma, Zuni and other tribal people made an important but little known contribution to building and maintaining rail lines throughout the West. This presentation traces the origin, development, and present status of the Native American railroad workforce. Also examined will be the role of skilled Native railroad labor in the context of territorial […]
Just one month remains to see The Wonderful World of Opals at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. This one-of-a-kind exhibit disbands after October 15. It features cut and uncut stones from around the world, including Australia, Mexico, Ethiopia and Peru and a one-of-a-kind rough opal specimen from Australia that weighs over […]
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