Benjamin Franklin never visited New Mexico, but his memory will grace a week’s worth of events commemorating his contributions to music and the printed word, along with his diplomacy in Spain, a contributing factor to victory in the American Revolution. The events kick off the Saturday following what would have been Franklin’s 307th birthday (Jan. […]
Benjamin Franklin never visited New Mexico, but his memory will grace a week’s worth of events commemorating his contributions to music and the printed word, along with his diplomacy in Spain, a contributing factor to victory in the American Revolution. The events kick off the Saturday following what would have been Franklin’s 307th birthday (Jan. […]
As part of the special exhibit Tall Tales of the Wild West: The Stories of Karl May, the History Museum will show a German-made film based on a Karl May novel at 2 pm on Sunday, Feb. 10. Treasure of Silver Lake is a 1965 German production dubbed into English. In their first cinematic adventure, […]
Join VanAnn Moore at noon on Wednesday, Feb. 20, for "Westward Ho! The Lives and Diaries of the Women Going West,” part of the Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture Series. Moore, of Los Lunas, is a singer and actress who recreates historical characters ranging from Jenny Lind to Baby Doe Tabor, Lillie Langtree, Sara Bernhardt, and […]
Don Edwards, a premier performer of old-time ballads and cowboy songs, performs in the New Mexico History Museum Auditorium at 2 pm on Sunday, March 10, an advance event for the exhibition Cowboys Real and Imagined, opening April 14. Tickets for Edwards’ performance are $25 at the History Museum Shop; call (505) 982-9543 or go […]
Join Joy Sperling at noon on Wednesday, March 13, for “Women’s Visual Narratives of New Mexico between the World Wars,” in the Meem Community Room. Sperling, an art history professor at Denison University in Granville, Ohio, had a 2012 writer’s residency at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos. Her lecture is part of the […]
Twenty years after Gutenberg invented movable type, Catholic nuns were setting type in Florence—pioneers in the history of women and publishing. They were followed by the inspiring stories of Charlotte Guillard, Anne Franklin, and Virginia Woolf, as well as the dispiriting story of U.S. women barred from working in union print shops in the 1970s. […]
The History Museum will close early today. We'll be open Saturday, March 30, but will be closed on Sunday, March 31.
The History Museum will be closed Sunday, March 31, for the Easter holiday. We'll reopen at 10 am Tuesday, April 2.
Join us for a special day of music, refreshments, and family activities at the grand opening of Cowboys Real and Imagined on Sunday, April 14. At 2 pm, guest curator B. Byron Price, director of the Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West at the University of Oklahoma and […]
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 Albuquerque writer and historian Lucinda Sachs at noon on Wednesday, April 17, for “Clyde Tingley’s New Deal for New Mexico,” part of the Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture Series. Sachs, an Albuquerque writer and historian, is finishing a 2013 Sunstone Press book about Tingley. She has also written a novel, Believe in the Wind, plus […]
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