• Museum New Year’s Holiday Closure

    New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Museum New Year’s Holiday Closure10:00 am to 5:00 pm Notice:The New Mexico History Museum and Palace of the Governors will be closed for New Year’s Day on Tuesday, January 01, 2019 only. We will re-open on Wednesday, January 02, 2019.   Wishing you and yours a Happy New Year!  

  • Blazing New Trails through New Mexico Historic Sites Friends of History Lecture Series

    New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Following a major reorganization in 2016, the Historic Sites Division embarked on an ambitious effort to redefine the interpretive vision of preserving and sharing New Mexico’s rich history to visitors while elevating the stories of the individual sites to new levels.   This presentation will detail not only the new directions that Division Director Patrick Moore […]

  • Opening Receptions

    New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Carved & Cast: 20th Century New Mexican Sculpture Carved & Cast presents a survey of traditional sculptural media, genres, and styles that New Mexican artists have utilized over the last century and highlights the various ways sculpture engages with the cultural, social, and aesthetic issues unique to the Southwest. Though this exhibition serves as a broad, […]

  • Leatherwork Making History

    New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Making History will be kicking off 2019 with a hands-on workshop about basic leatherworking. Learn a traditional craft used for making boots and saddles, and take home your own leather bookmark.  

  • Pottery Demonstration Series with Dina Velarde (Jicarilla Apache)

    Museum of Indian Arts and Culture 708-710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Join us as we continue our popular Pueblo pottery series, this month featuring Jicarilla Apache artist Dina Velarde.  A graduate of the Institute of American Indian Arts, where she received a BA in Museum Studies, Velarde parlayed her experiences into her position at MIAC (education assistant), which affords her the opportunity to work with schools […]

  • Culture Series: Michael & Peter Hurd

    New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum 4100 Dripping Springs Road, Las Cruces, NM, United States

    In the January Culture Series at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, Michael Hurd will tell anecdotal stories about his father, the great New Mexico artist Peter Hurd. Michael, an outstanding artist as well, will share memories of his father, his time on the ranch and elsewhere, some funny, all interesting.   The […]

  • Nocturne Lecture

    New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Christian Waguespack, Curator of Wait Until Dark, will discuss the history of the nocturne in art. This talk will provide a broad overview of the ways artists have engaged nighttime and the motif of darkness in their work over the course of history.

  • “Pueblo Oral Traditions: Storytelling Through Music” Presented by Marlon Magdalena Sunday, January 20, 2019 @ 2 pm at the DeLavy House

    Coronado Historic Site 485 Kuaua Road, Bernalillo, NM, United States

    Many indigenous communities throughout the New World do not have written languages. This means that traditional cultural knowledge of those communities has to be passed orally from one generation to the next. Music often plays a pivotal role in how communities pass on knowledge, specifically during participation in seasonal cultural activities. The focus of this […]

  • Museum Telescopes Open Sunday Night, Jan. 20 for Supermoon Total Eclipse

    (Albuquerque, New Mexico ) -- Another Supermoon Total Eclipse is coming to the skies over New Mexico Jan. 20, 2019. The New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science’s will open its doors from 8:30 – 11:30 p.m. for visitors to fully appreciate the astronomical coincidence happening in the sky that evening after sunset (weather permitting). […]

  • Antique Treasures Show

    New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum 4100 Dripping Springs Road, Las Cruces, NM, United States

    The 14th-Annual Antique Treasures Show at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum has expanded to two days. The new show will have plenty of old treasures this year as more than a dozen antique and collectible dealers from as far away as Santa Fe will be here to show some of their merchandise. […]

  • Maximiliano Luna and the Rough Riders

    New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Theodore Roosevelt called his men “children of the dragon’s blood,” those Rough Riders who bravely followed him up Cuba’s Kettle and San Juan hills in the face of blistering Spanish rifle and artillery fire.  Surely no Rough Rider deserved that title more than Captain Maximiliano Luna of New Mexico.  Yet his fascinating life has remained […]

  • First Friday

    New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    New Mexico residents enjoy free admission to the New Mexico Museum of Art with ID after 5:00 PM