The Lunar New Year 2020 celebrates the Year of the Rat. The Lion Dance performance is by the Quang Minh Buddhist Temple Youth Group of Albuquerque, a non-profit lion dance troupe. "All funds raised by the youth group are used to further the teachings of Buddhism and Vietnamese language and culture to the community. Quang Minh […]
Bring your crafting skills to make old-timey Valentines to take home or send to a sweetheart, inspired by historic cards from the museum’s collection. All ages welcome, and free with admission.
Join the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science on February 5, 2020, from 11:00 am to 11:30 am at 1801 Mountain Rd NW in Albuquerque. Rotating topics are related to the museum content. Presentations are approximately 20 minutes long and may include a walking tour or a classroom-style presentation. Docent Dialogue occurs every first Wednesday […]
Antonio de Mendoza, the architect of the Coronado Expedition of 1539-1542, had as his main goal to complete Columbus’s project of reaching Asia, by traveling westward from Spain. Europeans of the day were sure that was possible by land from Mexico City, and information from Native Americans indicated it would take only a few months. […]
Utako Shindo, Ph.D. is a Tokyo artist whose studio and research pursuits are the untranslatability of art and nuanced shadow-light as poetic medium. Her year-long project based in New Mexico traces Martins’ artistic path — scholarly and experientially. She is seeking a deeper understanding of how Martin’s abstractions embody ineffable life and express universal emotions. […]
Join the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science for Voices in Science. Speaker: John Spencer, Ph.D., Southwest Research Institute When Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto 90 years ago this month, he was ahead of his time. It took decades to learn that Pluto is not the oddball outsider that it first seemed to be, […]
Join us for a Public Opening Reception for Word Play, on display from February 8, 2020 - September 13, 2020. Words and pictures have a long history of playing well together, sometimes reinforcing and sometimes contradicting each other. This exhibition of more than forty works of art in a variety of mediums features images by […]
Words and pictures have a long history of playing well together, sometimes reinforcing and sometimes contradicting each other. This exhibition of more than forty works of art in a variety of mediums features images by artists who incorporate letters, words, and phrases into their visual creations. Among the delights of the exhibition are photographs inspired […]
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 […]
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