Closed early for snow
New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United StatesBe careful out there! We are closing the museum this afternoon due to slick road conditions.
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Be careful out there! We are closing the museum this afternoon due to slick road conditions.
Bring your crafting skills to make old-timey Valentines, inspired by historic cards from the collection. Kids and families welcome. A Free First Friday Evening event, part of the exhibit Gustave Baumann and Friends: Artist Cards from Holidays Past.
Join Santa Fe educator, photographer and camera obscura developer Jackie Mathey for a family workshop on building a take-home tabletop camera obscura that can be used as drawing aids. Explore how light moves and images are formed. Travel in your imagination to the age of the Renaissance where devices like these were used by artists. […]
Canadian photographer Donald Lawrence talks about his Underwater Pinhole Photography Project, the forthcoming Midnight Sun Camera Obscura Festival in the Yukon, and other works that combine his interests in wilderness experience, art-making, early optical history, and the relationship between learning and play. Following the auditorium lecture, join Lawrence in the Palace Courtyard for a demonstration […]
John McWilliams speaks on “Lozen, Apache Warrior Woman,” on Wednesday, February 18, part of the 2015 Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture Series in the Meem Community Room. Enter for free through the History Museum’s Washington Avenue doors. McWilliams is the author of New Mexico: A Glimpse into an Enchanted Land (Inkwell productions, 2014). He retired to […]
The nationally acclaimed Alzheimer’s Poetry Project (APP) and a growing consortium of Santa Fe-based arts and cultural institutions are joining forces to help people living with memory loss, along with their care partners, friends and the public. Each month, the Community-in-Residence program will open the doors at a different institution for an hour-long session of […]
We’re grateful for the deep snow overnight, but need to close the museum for the safety of our staff and visitors. Wait until the roads are clear, then come visit us!
Celebrate Women’s History Month with an auditorium talk by historian Pat Farr on "New Mexico Women’s Clubs: Civic Pioneers," at 6 pm on Friday, March 6. Learn how women at the turn of the last century helped the state make strides in "municipal housekeeping" chores, though their contributions went largely ignored. A Free First Friday […]
Susan Patrick, an associate professor emerita of music at the University of New Mexico, performs and discusses 17th- and 18th-century harpsichord music from Italy, Germany and France. The performance, in the History Museum auditorium, is free with admission. Sundays are free to NM residents. Children 16 and under are free daily. Patrick has taught classes […]
The nationally acclaimed Alzheimer’s Poetry Project (APP) and a growing consortium of Santa Fe-based arts and cultural institutions are joining forces to help people living with memory loss, along with their care partners, friends and the public. Each month, the Community-in-Residence program will open the doors at a different institution for an hour-long session of […]
In war and in peacetime, in theaters of conflict and on the homefront, American women have participated in our nation’s defense. Until recent years, those contributions have failed to attract much notice. Even less understood: the contributions of African American women, who had to fight just for the right to serve. On Sunday, March 29, […]
The museum will not have its regularly scheduled Free Friday Evening on April 3 in honor of Good Friday. Instead, we will close at 5 pm.
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