Learn more about the roles New Mexicans played in World War II by visiting the History Museum on Thursday, Nov. 11, a state holiday. The museum will be open 10 am to 5 pm. In the permanent exhibit, "Telling New Mexico: Stories from Then and Now," we have photographs, artifacts and interactives that cover everything […]
Spanish exploration couldn’t have happened without the help of navigators, cartographers, geologists, naturalists and other scientists. Learn about their explorations into medicinal plants (including the tequila-producing agave), ore-bearing rocks and more when California historian Iris H.W. Engstrand speaks on “Scientists in New Spain: 18th-Century Expeditions” at 6 pm Friday, Nov. 12 in the History Museum […]
One of America's premier storytellers, nationally recognized Joe Hayes will share tales of American Indian, Hispanic and Anglo cultures in the exhibit space of Wild at Heart: Ernest Thompson Seton. Free with museum admission (children are always free).A bilingual author and teller of tales, Hayes lives in New Mexico and is something of a Southwestern […]
Please join us for a lecture series by Huichol scholars and anthropologists to accompany the exhibition Huichol Art and Culture: Balancing the World. Sunday November 14 at 2pm Dr. Stacy B. Schaefer speak on Huichol Weaving: The Zingg Collection. All lectures will be held in the O’Keeffe Theater at the Museum of Indian Arts […]
Join local poet and Author Joan Logghe in the exhibition Material World: Textiles and Dress from the Collection» for poetry reading and writing inspired by textiles. By Museum Admission, New Mexico residents with I.D. Free on Sundays, youth 16 & under and Museum of New Mexico Foundation Members admitted FREE!
During this time, 12noon-2pm, curators from The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture and The Laboratory of Anthropology are in the lobby of MIAC to look at your unidentified treasures. These curators will attempt to identify and explain any artifact or historic object presented to them. They prefer to work with objects from the Southwest […]
The New Mexico Museum of Art will present an exhibition of works from its Bureau of Contemporary Art, a fictitious entity created for this exhibition in order to emphasize contemporary art’s prominent place within the museum’s permanent collection. Case Studies from the Bureau of Contemporary Art will be on view November 19, 2010 through March […]
Case Studies from the Bureau of Contemporary Art will present a number of thematic points of entry into the New Mexico Museum of Art’s contemporary collection. A selections show that includes ceramics, paintings, drawings, photography, sculpture and video. Case Studies considers the disparate hubs of war, figuration, seriality, materiality, and the containment of nature, among […]
Dr. J. Michael Francis speaks on “Murder, Martyrdom, and the Struggle for La Florida: Rethinking Spanish Florida’s Mission History, 1565-1606,” at 2 pm, Sunday, Nov. 21, the next event in the Threads of Memory Lecture series. (Free with museum admission; Sundays free to NM residents.) Francis's talk will introduce audiences to the remarkable, yet relatively […]
The New Mexico History Museum will be closed Thursday, Nov. 25, for the Thanksgiving holiday. We're back open 10 am to 5 pm on Friday, Nov. 26.
Following the Thanksgiving holiday, the History Museum re-opens at 10 am Friday, Nov. 26. Bring your out-of-state family and friends to learn more about the Land of Enchantment. (Note: Though we're usually open for free 5-8 pm on Fridays, we're closing at 5 pm this Friday to give our wonderful staff time with their out-of-state […]
The Palace Press will be closed Friday and Saturday, Nov. 26 and 27, while our hardy pressmen take a well-deserved break. The exhibit re-opens on Sunday, Nov. 28 from 10 am to 5 pm.
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