Join us for what we hope will become an annual tradition on Museum Hill! From 4 to 7pm, MIAC welcomes you - and your friends and family - to the Holiday Stroll. All museums on the Hill will be open; here’s what you can anticipate at MIAC. Performances by the Tewa Women’s Choir (5pm and […]
Travel back to the sights and sounds of the Beatles, brought to life in laser light! Laser and planetarium projectors will fill the dome with choreographed light, allowing the music and images to envelope the audience. More than a million laser-generated hues and colors poetically express each timeless track. Some of the Beatles’ greatest hits are […]
Travel back to the sights and sounds of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, brought to life in laser light! Laser and planetarium projectors will fill the dome with choreographed light, allowing the music and images to envelope the audience. More than a million laser-generated hues and colors poetically express each timeless track. Purchase tickets in […]
Museum Christmas Holiday Closure 10:00 am to 5:00 pm Notice:The New Mexico History Museum and Palace of the Governors will be closed for the Christmas Holiday on Tuesday, December 25, only. We will re-open on Wednesday, December 26. Wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas!
Museum New Year’s Holiday Closure10:00 am to 5:00 pm Notice:The New Mexico History Museum and Palace of the Governors will be closed for New Year’s Day on Tuesday, January 01, 2019 only. We will re-open on Wednesday, January 02, 2019. Wishing you and yours a Happy New Year!
Following a major reorganization in 2016, the Historic Sites Division embarked on an ambitious effort to redefine the interpretive vision of preserving and sharing New Mexico’s rich history to visitors while elevating the stories of the individual sites to new levels. This presentation will detail not only the new directions that Division Director Patrick Moore […]
Photographer Russell Lee created some of his finest work while traveling the United States for the Farm Security Administration. Among the communities he documented in New Mexico were Hobbs, Holman, Peñasco, Taos, Wagon Mound, and Quemado. Lee’s defining work as a documentary photographer was created in Pie Town New Mexico in 1940. Photography was not […]
Carved & Cast: 20th Century New Mexican Sculpture Carved & Cast presents a survey of traditional sculptural media, genres, and styles that New Mexican artists have utilized over the last century and highlights the various ways sculpture engages with the cultural, social, and aesthetic issues unique to the Southwest. Though this exhibition serves as a broad, […]
Places of Memory, paired members of two Indigenous women-led organizations: Tewa Women United (Española, New Mexico) and the National Association of the Families of the Abducted, Detained, and Disappeared of Peru/ANFASEP (Ayacucho, Peru) to explore the culturally specific ways they use art to heal community and individual trauma. Street Art and Activism, was a convening […]
Making History will be kicking off 2019 with a hands-on workshop about basic leatherworking. Learn a traditional craft used for making boots and saddles, and take home your own leather bookmark.
Join us as we continue our popular Pueblo pottery series, this month featuring Jicarilla Apache artist Dina Velarde. A graduate of the Institute of American Indian Arts, where she received a BA in Museum Studies, Velarde parlayed her experiences into her position at MIAC (education assistant), which affords her the opportunity to work with schools […]
In the January Culture Series at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, Michael Hurd will tell anecdotal stories about his father, the great New Mexico artist Peter Hurd. Michael, an outstanding artist as well, will share memories of his father, his time on the ranch and elsewhere, some funny, all interesting. The […]
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