In 1519, Hernán Cortés and a small group of Spanish soldiers made first contact with the Aztecs. The stories they sent back to Europe detailing the wealth and sophistication of the Aztec empire astonished their countrymen – and fed 300 years of efforts to write and re-write the story of the Mexican Conquest.From Oct. 1 […]
It’s Boots ‘n’ Suits Night!Free Friday Evening, October 1Live Band! Guys in Suits! Dancing Boots!Western rock band “Lawyers, Guns and Money,”will blow out the last bash for Sole Mates: Cowboy Boots and Art. The summer has gone, and it’s time to celebrate at a Free Friday Night event at the New Mexico Museum of Art. […]
As part of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation's 3rd Annual New Mexico Women Authors' Book Festival at the museum, all visitors will be granted free admission Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 2 and 3. Enjoy the book fest and check out great exhibits like Telling New Mexico; Santa Fe Found: Fragments of Time; and Wild […]
The Friends of Folk Art gather gently used folk art items for the 3rd annual sale benefitting the Museum of International Folk Art. Donations will be accepted Sunday September 26 through Thursday September 30; to arrange to donate early please call (505) 476-1201. Friends of Folk Art Members are invited for coffee and first pick […]
Join Seton Collection curator, David L. Witt, and Academy for the Love of Learning staff, on a guided tour of Seton Castle and Seton Village, south of Santa Fe. The event is free, but reservations are required. Call (505) 995-1860.Besides touring the ruins of Seton's Castle (for information, click on http://www.nmhistorymuseum.org/blog/?p=185), you'll get to the […]
Come meet animal ambassadors of Albuquerque's Rio Grande Zoo in an interactive educational program about wildlife conservation. Get your hands on biofacts like animal bones, pelts, feathers and other items. Held in the History Museum Classroom, this event is free with museum admission and is part of the Wild at Heart: Ernest Thompson Seton exhibit..
The Palace Press will be closed Sunday, Oct. 11, reopening on Tuesday, Oct. 13. The rest of the History Museum and Palace of the Governors will be open on Sunday, so come on by.
As part of the new exhibit, The Threads of Memory, Spain and the United States (El Hilo de la Memoria: España y los Estados Unidos), the museum and the Museum of New Mexico Foundation are hosting a ticketed event 6-8 pm, Oct. 16. Tickets are $100 and can be purchased at the Lensic Box Office: […]
The New Mexico History Museum and Department of Cultural Affairs proudly announce that El Archivo General de Indias (the General Archive of the Indies) in Seville, Spain, has chosen Santa Fe for the American debut of El Hilo de la Memoria (“The Threads of Memory”) an exhibit of rare documents, illustrations and maps detailing Spain’s […]
The city of Santa Fe, in partnership with the History Museum, Union Latina and Fundacion Consejo Espano-Estado Unidos, continues its community conversations at the Santa Fe Convention Center, with speakers including Spanish Ambassador Jose Luis Dicenta; Mexican Acting Consul Daniel Dominguez; Spanish Ambassador Eduardo Garrigues; and Santa Fe Historian Jose Garcia, among others. The schedule:9-11 […]
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 12th annual Celebration of the Book features shining examples of the book-arts craft and offers free, hands-on workshops to create your own. In the hands of an artist, books become more than sheets of paper between two covers. Pages pop up. Weavings appear. In Albuquerque artist Marilyn Stablein’s hands, packages of sewing notions are […]
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