• Arizona Adventure A Palace Guard trip

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

    Here’s an invitation to members of our Friends group, the Palace Guard: Spend the night at Mary Jane Colter’s favorite Harvey House, La Posada in Winslow, with a talk by Curator Meredith Davidson. At the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Curators Diana Pardue and Kathleen Howard give an exclusive tour of Over the Edge: Fred Harvey […]

  • Exhibition Opening Alcoves 16/17 #2

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

    The ‘Alcoves’ exhibitions are a distinctive feature of the New Mexico Museum of Art. Alcoves 16/17 is a series of seven rotations over the course of a year which will include thirty-five artists in total from across New Mexico. Five artists will show for seven weeks. 

  • Summer hours begin

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

    Starting May 1 and running through Monday, Oct. 31, the History Museum is open daily 10 am to 5 pm, with Free Friday Evenings every week, 5-8 pm. (Winter hours are November through April, when we are closed on Mondays and offer Free Friday Evenings the first Friday of each month.)

  • Lowriders, Hoppers, and Hot Rods: Car Culture of Northern New Mexico

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

     ¡Orale! Take a ride into the creative reimaginings of American steel as captured in photographs, hubcaps, hood ornaments, car show banners and, yes, actual cars. Lowriders, Hoppers, and Hot Rods: Car Culture of Northern New Mexico, opening May 1 through March 5, 2017, at the New Mexico History Museum focuses on mobile works of art […]

  • Historical Downtown Walking Tours

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

    Through October 15, learn about the history of Santa Fe on a Downtown Walking Tour led by New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors guides every Monday through Saturday. Gather at the Palace Courtyard’s Blue Gate just south of the History Museum entrance at 113 Lincoln Avenue at 10:15 am. Cost: $10; children 16 and […]

  • Exhibit opening: Lowriders, Hoppers and Hot Rods

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

    Get bajito y suavecito (low and slow) at the opening of Lowriders, Hoppers, and Hot Rods: Car Culture of Northern New Mexico. We’ll have cars in the lobby and the exhibition, along with a souvenir photo booth, a video loop screening of the movie South American Cho Lo, and a 2 pm lecture about the […]

  • Artist Gallery Talk Alcoves 16/17 #2

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

    Lively and engaging in gallery conversation with the artists from the Alcoves 16/17 #2.  

  • Citizen Min in New Mexico

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

    Citizen Min in New Mexico commemorates an event of national significance—the posthumous award of a Presidential Medal of Freedom to Minoru (Min) Yasui, one of the heroes of Japanese American civil rights beginning in the World War II era of internment camps. It also presents a little-known event, a historic encounter between Min and Senator […]

  • Music at the Museum

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

    May 6 The Laser Cats Acoustic gypsy jazz band with bluegrass and modern rhythms.   May 13 Jesse Vernier 50’s and 60’s classic rock   May 20 DJ Prairiedog Disco, funk, R & B and surf tunes   May 27 Pat Malone Jazz and classic acoustic guitar   June 3 Almajazz American Pop Duet on […]

  • The Cultural Landscape of the Caja del Rio/Los Aguajes Pueblo Friends of Archaeology

    Office of Archaeological Studies 7 Old Cochiti Road (off 599), Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Join Santa Fe National Forest archaeologist, Mike Bremer, and National Park Service volunteers, Bill Davis and Jerry Cooke, on a tour of the Aguajes landscape. On the approximately 3-mile hike (moderate difficulty) we will view the pueblo itself, fieldhouse structures, agricultural features, local shrines, a world shrine, petroglyphs and two large lithic fields that date […]

  • The Role of Settlement Pattern Studies and the Emergence of the Current Archaeological View of Ancient Maya Civilization Office of Archaeological Studies and Friends of Archaeology Brown Bag Lecture:

    Office of Archaeological Studies 7 Old Cochiti Road (off 599), Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Current scholarly understandings of Pre-Columbian Maya civilization are quite different from the traditional model of ancient Maya civilization that dominated the field of Maya studies until recently and still dominates public perception of the ancient Maya. In part, this new view is due to both the significant increase in archaeological studies in the Maya area […]

  • From Alfred Stieglitz to Cady Wells: The Rebecca Salsbury James Collection by Karli Wurzelbacher

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

    Join us for a talk uncovering the connections between the artwork that Rebecca Salsbury James (1891-1968) lived with and the paintings and embroideries that she created.  James collected paintings and photographs by friends including Marsden Hartley, Georgia O’Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, and Cady Wells.  In 1968, she donated her collection of modern art to […]