Experts on the early history of baseball, Mable Dodge Luhan, Edith Warner, and hippies will participate in the second half of the 2013 Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture Series. Organized by Tomas Jaehn of the museum’s Fray Angélico Chávez History Library, the lectures are free and open to the public (and, yes, you can bring a lunch). […]
FREE Friday evenings at the The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture and the Museum of International Folk Art. Enjoy our Museums and dine at the Museum Hill Cafe.
Mary Kershaw is the Director of the New Mexico Museum of Art
Ever wonder why there’s an obelisk in the middle of the Santa Fe Plaza? Have you noticed the gargoyles on top of the Catron Building? Where was the gambling hall? Which tucked-away building held a Manhattan Project secret? Find out by taking a Downtown Walking Tour led by New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors […]
FREE Friday evenings at the The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture and the Museum of International Folk Art. Enjoy our Museums and dine at the Museum Hill Cafe.
Gregory Hinton grew up in the cowboy country of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado, but evacuated to a California more tolerant of him as a gay man, finally making peace with his roots thanks to gay rodeo. Blake Little showed up at his first gay rodeo in the 1980s intending only to take photographs, but became […]
Offered to Foundation members only, choose two of the three tours: Behind the scenes at the Palace Press, an insider's account of Cowboys Real and Imagined and a look at Southwestern imagery in the exhibitions It's About Time: 14,000 Years of Art in New Mexico and Back in the Saddle. RSVP here. Not a Foundation member? […]
Robin Farwell Gavin is Senior Curator, Museum of Spanish Colonial Arts
Join former OAS Project Director Matt Barbour for an ancient tradition in the Hispanic Southwest, one of the very few dances shared by both Hispanic and Native American people, Los Matachines. Cost: $95 per person. Make reservations beginning July 1 by calling (505) 992-2715 ext. 8. Please check the Office of Archaelogical Studies' website here and the […]
Breakfast with Maxine McBrinn, MIAC Curator of Archaeology, followed by a behind the scenes preview of our upcoming blockbuster exhibit Turquoise, Water, Sky opening in April of 2014 Turquoise, Water, Sky opens in April, 2014. The exhibit showcases the museum’s large collection of southwestern jewelry and addresses all aspects of the stone. Turquoise, which forms […]
Immerse yourself in cowboy culture August 9—11 at the New Mexico History Museum’s Wild West Weekend, a special event celebrating the exhibition Cowboys Real and Imagined. Cowboy musicians and poets join trick ropers, saddle makers, silversmiths and more to provide three days of hands-on fun for the whole family. The events are free; the exhibition […]
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