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Learn about the history of Santa Fe on a Downtown Walking Tour led by New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors guides. Monday-Saturday, from April 16 through mid-October. 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 under […]

Outlaws, Rough Riders, classic restaurants and a possible spy will come to life at the 2012 New Mexico Statehood History Conference, May 3-5, in Santa Fe. Presented by the Historical Society of New Mexico and the New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors, this Centennial version of the Society’s annual conference includes a special treat: […]

In honor of New Mexico’s 100th birthday, the New Mexico History Museum invites you and your family to enjoy free admission all day Thursday, May 3, when you can also attend all or parts of a daylong Centennial symposium. The symposium, co-hosted by the Historical Society of New Mexico begins at 10:30 am in the […]

Join Robert Larson for "New Mexico: Early Attempts to Gain Statehood," part of the 2012 Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture Series. A free event in the John Gaw Meem Room; enter through the Washington Avenue doors. Larson is professor emeritus of history at the University of Northern Colorado.  He has written books on Populism in the West […]

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 guides. […]

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 […]

We're giving the museum's hard-working pressmen a long weekend and closing the Palace Press on Friday and Saturday, May 18 and 19. It will reopen on May 20. The rest of the New Mexico History Museum and Palace of the Governors will remain open. Be sure to check out the new Native American Portraits exhibition […]

A dazzling collection of original prints featuring Native Americans from across North America opens this Friday at the New Mexico History Museum. The Women’s Board of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation will serve refreshments from 5-7 pm. The museum is open for free on Fridays from 5-8 pm. Native American Portraits: Points of Inquiry […]

The Museum of New Mexico Press invites you to join author Ana Pacheco as she speaks about her new book on the life of J. Paul Taylor—a key figure in New Mexico’s arts community, the legislature, and a gifted educator. The lecture, at 2 pm, on Saturday, May 19, in the Meem Community Room at […]

Join us as we help food authors Cheryl Alters Jamison and Bill Jamison launch their new Museum of New Mexico Press' Centennial book, Tasting New Mexico: Recipes Celebrating 100 Years of Distinctive Home Cooking. (The Christmas gift you'll love giving this year.) The Jamisons will speak at 2 pm on Sunday, May 20, in the […]

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 guides. […]

Working with famed artist Georgia O’Keeffe and learning the rustic ways of northern New Mexico filled author Margaret Wood with stories that she shares in her newest book, O’Keeffe Stories, a limited-edition production by the Press at the Palace of the Governors. Wood reads from the book on Friday, May 25, at 6 pm in […]