Join our monthly gathering for colcheras of all skill levels led by Annette Gutierrez Turk. If you are beginning or advanced in the traditional New Mexican style of embroidery, bring your current colcha project along and enjoy these monthly, informal, community work sessions to share ideas, resources and encouragement! For more information, call Elena at […]
Please join us on Sunday, January 21 at either 2pm or 3pm for storytelling with MIAC educators Joyce Begay-Foss (Diné) and Dina Velarde (Jicarilla Apache). Free with museum admission.
3:00 Welcome by NM Education Secretary-Designate Christopher Ruszkowski 3:20 World Music Ensemble directed by Randy Markham, Music, Gallup Public Schools 3:35 Business Supporting Music and the Arts, Cindy Cook 3:50 Flamenco Performance by middle and high school students, Tierra Adentro 4:10 Critical Learning Through the Arts, Charles Gamble 4:20 […]
Learn what it takes to care for a museum collection with a presentation highlighting the details about the preservation of museum collections. Subjects such as lighting, pest management, environmental conditions, storage, exhibition preparation, and research will be discussed.
(Santa Fe, NM) - In 2003, former State Representative J. Paul Taylor, his wife Mary Daniels Taylor, and their family donated their home and two attached stores to the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs for development as a future State Historic Site. The opportunity now before us is to transform this extraordinary gift into […]
Lesley Poling-Kempes presents “Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and their Adventures in the American Southwest”, the true story of Natalie Curtis, Carol Stanley, Alice Klauber and Mary Cabot Wheelwright, women whose lives were transformed by the people and landscape of the American Southwest in the first decades of the 20th century. Poling-Kempes […]
In the early morning hours of Wednesday, January 31, a rare astronomical concurrence of events will include a full moon, a Supermoon and a Blue Moon that will be totally eclipsed! Early risers can experience this phenomenon at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science early that morning from 5 – 7 a.m. […]
Evidence for water-deposited sedimentary rocks discovered on Mars by the NASA Rovers, and small iron concretions called ‘blueberries’ found on the Red Planet, will be discussed by University of Utah professor, Marjorie A. Chan, Ph.D. She will also discuss the water-deposited sedimentary rocks that occur here in New Mexico and other parts of the Southwest. […]
On the first Thursday of the month, NHCC invites adults for artistic fun in a relaxed social setting, which includes snacks, refreshments, and beer & wine for sale from Pop Fizz. This is a great opportunity for friends to hang out, a unique date night option, or a place to come solo and connect with […]
Rio performs Bossa Nova jazz for our First Friday Music at the Museum when the entire museum is open from 5-7PM. Included with the cost of admission.
(Albuquerque, NM) – In anticipation of the February 10 opening of a blockbuster exhibition about Leonardo da Vinci, the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science is offering enjoyable family activities to introduce visitors to this well-known Renaissance artist, inventor, engineer, scientist, naturalist, and life-long learner. This orientation to the topics that will be […]
Celebrating the 100 year history of the Museum, volunteer guides present 15 minute pop up talks prompting conversations about the architecture of the building and art in the collection. Included with the cost of museum admission. Museum Admission is free for NM residents with ID on the First Friday of the month after 5:00 pm
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