Marlon Magdalena

Ever wonder why there’s an obelisk in the middle of the Santa Fe Plaza? Have you noticed the gargoyles on top of the Catron Building? Where was the gambling hall? Which tucked-away building held a Manhattan Project secret? Find out by taking a Downtown Walking Tour led by New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors […]

Join Santa Fe Poet Laureate Jon Davis for "The Poetry of Light," a writing workshop based on Poetics of Light: Pinhole Photography. Open to high schoolers and older, the session will bring participants into the exhibit gallery to study pinhole photographs and inhabit them imaginatively using a variety of approaches. Let language carry you toward […]

Due to a private event in the History Museum, it will not be open for our usual Free Friday Night on June 6. The Palace of the Governors, however, will remain open for free from 5-8 pm. (Folks attending the Judy Chicago opening at the New Mexico Museum of Art who would like to tack […]

Missouri-based photographer Scott McMahon speaks in the History Museum auditorium on “Pinhole Photography—Projections, Contraptions, Thoughts and Afterthoughts," an event in support of the exhibit Poetics of Light: Pinhole Photography. McMahon, whose work is included in the exhibit, will talk about his exploration of pinhole photography, his interest in the ephemeral nature of things, and how […]

Experts on pinhole photography, the Taos Mutiny of 1855, New Mexico’s Civil War slave code and more will speak in the first half of the 2014 Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture Series. Organized by Tomas Jaehn of the museum’s Fray Angélico Chávez History Library, the monthly lectures are free and open to the public (and, yes, […]

A special session of the nationally renowned Alzheimer’s Poetry Project comes to the New Mexico History Museum and its newest exhibit, Poetics of Light: Pinhole Photography, from 10:30 to 11:30 am on Wednesday, June 25. The event is free and open to the public, but reservations are recommended. To make reservations or for more information, […]

Painting the Divine: Images of Mary in the New World features 35 masterpieces from the museum’s collections, combined with modern interpretations that, together, reveal a story of how faith unified Spanish colonists across harsh and remote frontiers. Be among the first to see this original exhibit, accompanied by Spanish classical guitar performed by AnnaMaria Cardinalli. […]

Ever wonder why there’s an obelisk in the middle of the Santa Fe Plaza? Have you noticed the gargoyles on top of the Catron Building? Where was the gambling hall? Which tucked-away building held a Manhattan Project secret? Find out by taking a Downtown Walking Tour led by New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors […]

Begin collecting art, jewelry, pottery and more from the next generation of Native American artists and craftspeople at the annual Young Natives Arts & Crafts Show. Children and grandchildren of artists associated with the Palace of the Governors’ Portal Program will demonstrate and sell their own arts and crafts in the Palace Courtyard from 9 […]

Bring the family and print a historic image of Our Lady on a replica medieval press, an activity accompanying the exhibit Painting the Divine: Images of Mary in the New World. Free with admission. Children 16 and under free daily. Using a Bobcat Press built in the 1970s by Cedar Crest’s Richard Hicks, visitors will […]

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. […]