The Governor’s Gallery is celebrating the New Mexico centennial with an exhibition of historic and contemporary maps tracing our state’s culture from the sixteenth century to the present day. These exquisite maps are drawn from private and public collections. Curated by Dennis Reinhartz, noted historian and Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Arlington, […]
Join New Mexico dignitaries and the U.S. Postal Service for a ceremony and first-day-of-issue sale of the Centennial stamp, designed by artist Doug West. Doors open at 10 am, with sales in the History Museum lobby until noon. The event begins at 10:30 am in the auditorium. Also that day, the museum kicks off a […]
On April 4, 1818, Congress enacted the Flag Act of 1818, setting forth a rule that no new stars could be added to the flag until the Fourth of July immediately following a state’s admission to the union. Thanks to that once-a-year-and-only-once-a-year mandate, New Mexicans hoping to share their pride at becoming the 47th state […]
Join us for music in the museum with Pedro Romero S. and his eclectic accordion.
Journey Stories is a powerful Smithsonian exhibition that shows how the United States was forever changed by the expansion of mobility and transportation. Journey Stories illustrates the diversity of America’s story by immigration, migration, innovation, and freedom. Journey Stories is an exhibit about the search of the American dream through expansion and migration as well […]
Join Musician Mario Reynolds for an afternoon of Music from the Andes, presented in conjunction with the exhibition, Folk Art of the Andes.
MIAC presents a Series of Story Hours of Native American Tales, for all ages in the MIAC Discovery Room. During winter months, the dark and cold time of the year, it is traditional to share stories, so come and share in this tradition Programs are at 2:00 pm and repeated again 3:00 pm. This Sunday […]
Join Richard Melzer at noon on Wednesday, Jan. 11, in the John Gaw Meem Room for "Political Cartoons and New Mexico's Struggle for Statehood 1850-1912," the kickoff of the 2012 Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture Series. A free event in the John Gaw Meem Room; enter through the Washington Avenue doors. Melzer is a history professor […]
Join us for dinner with world famous Santa Clara artist Tammy Garcia at the Museum Hill Café and a multi-media presentation Behind the Lens: Ceramic Works by Tammy Garcia based on the edgy and risky works that she created for Indian Market this year, to be held in the Museum Theater afterwards. $45 per person […]
The New Mexico Museum of Art exhibition Repeat After Me assembles more than twenty contemporary prints that make use of repetition—as process and as image. A print, by definition, is a reproducible image: multiple prints can be made from a single plate. Repetition is seen also in these prints as visual motifs such as a […]
Join us for a lively panel discussion with Hampton Sides, Paul Hutton and Mark Lee Gardner . These three evocative story tellers will explore traits that made our region famous and infamous in the 19th century. John Andrews, member of the New Mexico Humanities Council and host of the popular Speaking of Shakespeare series in […]
Repeat After Me brings together 21 prints, primarily from the museum’s collection, that relate to repetition on two different levels: as process and as image. Included are works by Garo Antreasian, Polly Apfelbaum, Charles Arnoldi, Frederick Hammersley, Joyce Kozloff, Sol LeWitt, Sheryl Oring, and Marie Watt, among others.
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