Join us for a day of Renaissance-style art! Create one-of-a-kind Valentine’s Day cards and collages. Eric Careno will get you in the mood with Renaissance music. Explore the museum on a love-themed treasure hunt, enjoy refreshments, and tour our galleries with someone you love! Free and fun for all ages! Come in Renaissance costume and […]
Hear stories about how we can help our planet by recycling. We’ll play a game to learn how to separate items you may have thrown away before into recycling. Then, we’ll walk through the new SAYAKA GANZ - RECLAIMED CREATIONS Exhibit and make our own art creations with recycled materials! Classroom 1 at the New […]
Cipriano Vigil is a 2019 New Mexico Music Commission Platinum Music Awards honoree. He has won several other prestigious awards. These include being honored as a Living Treasure, the Governor’s Award, the New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities Award. Cipriano has been nominated three times for the National Heritage Award for outstanding work in maintaining […]
Continuing the School for Advanced Research’s 2019-2020 Creative Thought Forum series, archaeologist Ruth Van Dyke presents this year’s annual Linda S. Cordell lecture and shares insights into social, political, and sensorial relationships across the greater Chaco landscape, past and present. She explores how archaeologists can work together with Native peoples to influence the public understanding […]
Feb 14 2020 - 6:30pm to 10:00pm Location: NM Museum of Natural History and Science Make it a special Valentine’s date night at the museum! Join us for a roaring 20s party from 6:30 – 10:00pm. Dance with your favorite flapper in the museum atrium with our roaring animatronic Bisti Beast. Cash bar provided by Left Turn Distillery. […]
Join the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science for the 5th Annual Great Backyard Bird Count Sunday, February 16th, from 9:00, am till Noon. Meet at 9:00 am in the Kiwanis Learning Garden and walk 2 miles with experienced birders to count all the birds we see! Join in the worldwide Citizen Science […]
About the Museum of International Folk Art: http://www.internationalfolkart.org/ Founded in 1953 by Florence Dibell Bartlett, the Museum of International Folk Art’s mission is to foster understanding of the traditional arts to illuminate human creativity and shape a humane world. The museum holds the world’s largest international folk art collection of more than 150,000 objects from […]
With the temperament of Santa Claus and the tenacity of a badger, Jack Loeffler reveals his compassion and concern for Southwestern traditional cultures and their respective habitats in the wake of Manifest Destiny. Working both as an individual and with comrades--including Edward Abbey and Gary Snyder--he was part of an early coterie of counterculturalists and […]
MIAC Curators gather in the lobby of the Museum on the third Wednesday of each month awaiting whatever treasures may walk through the door. This is your opportunity to bring a family heirloom, something special from your collection, or a piece you know nothing about. Naturally, curators prefer to examine items from the Southwest, but […]
Draped, live model figure drawing on the stage of St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art. $5 suggested donation Limited to 15 people. Registration required. Please call Museum Educator Amanda Formby at 505-476-5070 to reserve your spot.
Helen D. Bird is a self-taught master potter who learned about traditional pottery making by watching her great-aunt, whom she only knew as Sah’NaYa. Bird started experimenting with pottery making in 1984. Today, her work is sought by collectors and is housed in museums and local collections. Helen has also continued making utilitarian pottery as […]
Join the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science at 1801 Mountain Road in Albuquerque. Get ready to rock and roll with this geology themed sugar scrub. Learn about sedimentary rocks and the secrets they can hold, including fossils. Then get your art on while you create your own unique sugar scrub with Roberta […]
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