Members of our Friends group, the Palace Guard, can enjoy a whirlwind day: Visit Dr. William Itoh’s home to see his collection of Civil War material; savor lunch at Los Poblanos and a tour of its John Gaw Meem–designed buildings; peek into the Center for Southwest Research’s collections; and tour UNM’s Zimmerman Library with John […]
State Historian Rick Hendricks talks about the books Spanish colonists were reading in the year that Shakespeare’s First Folio was printed. (Shakespeare may have read them, too!) His lecture, "1623 in Print in New Mexico" is a Free First Friday Evening event. Free admission 5–8 pm. Rick Hendricks is a former editor of the University of […]
On March 9, 1916, Mexican revolutionist Pancho Villa and his army of 1,500 guerillas attacked Columbus, NM, killing 19 people and leaving the town in flames. President Wilson ordered General John J. (Black Jack) Pershing to lead 6,000 American troops (including a young lieutenant named George S. Patton Jr.) into Mexico to capture Villa. For […]
Meet Santa Fe photographer Alan Pearlman and see his exhibit, Santa Fe Faces, in the Mezzanine Gallery. A retired physician and loyal Palace of the Governors Photo Archives volunteer, Pearlman recently donated 200 archival prints to our Photo Legacy Project. This exhibit features portraits he took from 2009–2013, during a quest to capture the soul of […]
Jake Barrow, acting executive director at Cornerstones Community Partnerships, speaks on “A Fragile Legacy: Earthen Architecture in New Mexico” at 6 pm on Friday, April 1. The lecture will compare and contrast the challenges of preserving earthen architecture using several case studies, including the evolution of the Palace of the Governors, a National Historic Treasure […]
Artist Rose B. Simpson explores the global theme of “risk” at the latest installment of CreativeMornings. Enjoy some networking with other creative professionals before the talk, along with coffee and pastries courtesy of Iconik Coffee Roasters. Free. Rose B. Simpson comes from a family of northern New Mexico Native American artists. Her mother, Roxanne Swentzell, […]
From offering caregivers an hour of respite to discovering new wells of creativity, the acclaimed Alzheimer’s Poetry Project has spent the last decade developing techniques to reach people with memory illnesses through literature, performance, art and museum exhibits. Now you can learn these techniques from dynamic teachers with proven abilities to reach learners of all […]
Starting April 11 and continuing through October 15, learn about the history of Santa Fe on a Downtown Walking Tour led by New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors guides every Monday through Saturday. Gather at the Palace Courtyard’s Blue Gate just south of the History Museum entrance at 113 Lincoln Avenue at 10:15 am. […]
Here’s an invitation to members of our Friends group, the Palace Guard: Spend the night at Mary Jane Colter’s favorite Harvey House, La Posada in Winslow, with a talk by Curator Meredith Davidson. At the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Curators Diana Pardue and Kathleen Howard give an exclusive tour of Over the Edge: Fred Harvey […]
Starting May 1 and running through Monday, Oct. 31, the History Museum is open daily 10 am to 5 pm, with Free Friday Evenings every week, 5-8 pm. (Winter hours are November through April, when we are closed on Mondays and offer Free Friday Evenings the first Friday of each month.)
Through October 15, learn about the history of Santa Fe on a Downtown Walking Tour led by New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors guides every Monday through Saturday. Gather at the Palace Courtyard’s Blue Gate just south of the History Museum entrance at 113 Lincoln Avenue at 10:15 am. Cost: $10; children 16 and […]
Citizen Min in New Mexico commemorates an event of national significance—the posthumous award of a Presidential Medal of Freedom to Minoru (Min) Yasui, one of the heroes of Japanese American civil rights beginning in the World War II era of internment camps. It also presents a little-known event, a historic encounter between Min and Senator […]
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