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The Palace Press will be closed Friday and Saturday, reopening at 10 am Sunday, June 12. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope you'll enjoy all of the other exhibits at the New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors.

Learn more about the African American experience in northern New Mexico, and share your own family’s story, during a symposium in conjunction with the exhibit New Mexico’s African American Legacy: Visible, Vital, Valuable. “The Journey of the African American to Northern New Mexico” takes place 2-4 pm on Sunday, June 12, in the History Museum […]

NEW DATE: June 16Noted environmental author William deBuys speaks on "A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Southwest," on Thursday, June 16, in the John Gaw Meem Room, 105 Washington Ave. (Enter via the museum's Washington entrance.) This Brainpower & Brownbags lecture is free and open to the public. An avid environmentalist and the author of […]

Come celebrate the women of the West at the public opening of Home Lands: How Women Made the West from 2-4 pm on Sunday, June 19. The Women’s Board of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation will serve refreshments in the Palace Courtyard, where visitors are invited to remember all the women who helped to […]

Join Dr. James F. Brooks for the kickoff of the programming series for Home Lands: How Women Made the West. At 2 pm on Sunday, June 26, Brooks, president of the School for Advanced Research, speaks on “Captive Women in the Slave System of the Southwest Borderland.” The lecture is free with admission (Sundays free […]

Tough economic times and persistent droughts were nothing new to Fabiola Cabeza de Baca. The native New Mexican, home economist and author saw them as an opportunity to thrive. During the Depression, she worked for the New Mexico Agricultural Extension Service, helping Hispanic and Tewa women learn new gardening and poultry-raising techniques, along with how […]

Author and historian Steven K. Madsen of Salt Lake City discusses his book, Exploring Desert Stone: A Visual Portrayal of the 1859 Macomb Expedition from Santa Fe to the Canyonlands of the Colorado (Utah State University Press, 2010) at noon on Wednesday, July 13, part of the Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture Series. Lectures are held […]

Virginia Scharff, co-curator of Home Lands: How Women Made the West and director of the University of New Mexico’s Center for the Southwest, speaks on “Moving Around to Settle In: Women of the Plains and Range.” at 2 pm on Sunday, July 17, in the History Museum Auditorium. The lecture is part of the exhibition, […]

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 their own arts and crafts in the Palace Courtyard from 9 am to […]

Join the History Museum and the New Mexico Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts for a conference on "Women Planting Seeds:  Home, Healing and Horticulture," from 9 am to 4:30 pm, on Monday, July 25, and 9 am to 12 pm, on Tuesday, July 26, in the History Museum Auditorium. The […]

“Party with El Palacio” on Friday, Aug. 5, features a free triple-header of an evening with award-winning author Pam Houston, Albuquerque bluegrass band Breaking Blue and spoken-word poet Carlos Contreras. The event begins at 5 pm, with a reading and book signing by Houston in the New Mexico History Museum Auditorium. (Seating is limited.) At […]

Join members of the Española Valley Fiber Arts Center as they demonstrate Pueblo, Navajo and Spanish weaving techniques in the Palace Courtyard. “Homespun: Northern New Mexico Spinning and Weaving Techniques” is part of the exhibit Home Lands: How Women Made the West. The event is free with museum admission. Sundays free to NM residents and […]