Marlon Magdalena

The city of Santa Fe, in partnership with the History Museum, Union Latina and Fundacion Consejo Espano-Estado Unidos, continues its community conversations at the Santa Fe Convention Center, with speakers including Spanish Ambassador Jose Luis Dicenta; Mexican Acting Consul Daniel Dominguez; Spanish Ambassador Eduardo Garrigues; and Santa Fe Historian Jose Garcia, among others. The schedule:9-11 […]

Join a gathering of some of the Southwest’s finest poets for an eve-of-Halloween reading, along with a display of poetry broadsides produced by the Palace Press, 6-7:30 pm, Friday, Oct. 29, in the John Gaw Meem Room of the New Mexico History Museum, 113 Lincoln Ave. The event, “A Spirited Reading,” is free, but be […]

When Jerry Gurulé and Enrique Lamadrid were translating centuries-old Spanish documents for the book accompanying The Threads of Memory: Spain and the United States, they became fascinated by the pieces that related directly to their home state of New Mexico. “Is this the opposite of `exotic’?” asked Lamadrid. “I think so.” He and Gurulé will […]

To record their lives and discoveries, Spanish explorers first needed something to write on. Palace Press Curator Tom Leech will discuss the finer points of historical papermaking at a lecture and demonstration on Saturday, Nov. 6, from 2-3:30 pm in the museum’s Learning Center and the exhibit space of The Threads of Memory: Spain and […]

Join New York actor Chaz Mena for a Chautauqua performance as Pedro Menendez de Aviles, Spanish Florida’s first governor, at 2 pm Sunday, Nov. 7, in the History Museum Auditorium. Part of the Threads of Memory Lecture Series, this event is free with museum admission (Sundays free to NM residents). Mena is a New York-based […]

Learn more about the roles New Mexicans played in World War II by visiting the History Museum on Thursday, Nov. 11, a state holiday. The museum will be open 10 am to 5 pm. In the permanent exhibit, "Telling New Mexico: Stories from Then and Now," we have photographs, artifacts and interactives that cover everything […]

Spanish exploration couldn’t have happened without the help of navigators, cartographers, geologists, naturalists and other scientists. Learn about their explorations into medicinal plants (including the tequila-producing agave), ore-bearing rocks and more when California historian Iris H.W. Engstrand speaks on “Scientists in New Spain: 18th-Century Expeditions” at 6 pm Friday, Nov. 12 in the History Museum […]

One of America's premier storytellers, nationally recognized Joe Hayes will share tales of American Indian, Hispanic and Anglo cultures in the exhibit space of Wild at Heart: Ernest Thompson Seton. Free with museum admission (children are always free).A bilingual author and teller of tales, Hayes lives in New Mexico and is something of a Southwestern […]

Dr. J. Michael Francis speaks on “Murder, Martyrdom, and the Struggle for La Florida: Rethinking Spanish Florida’s Mission History, 1565-1606,” at 2 pm, Sunday, Nov. 21, the next event in the Threads of Memory Lecture series. (Free with museum admission; Sundays free to NM residents.) Francis's talk will introduce audiences to the remarkable, yet relatively […]

The New Mexico History Museum will be closed Thursday, Nov. 25, for the Thanksgiving holiday. We're back open 10 am to 5 pm on Friday, Nov. 26.

Following the Thanksgiving holiday, the History Museum re-opens at 10 am Friday, Nov. 26. Bring your out-of-state family and friends to learn more about the Land of Enchantment. (Note: Though we're usually open for free 5-8 pm on Fridays, we're closing at 5 pm this Friday to give our wonderful staff time with their out-of-state […]

The Palace Press will be closed Friday and Saturday, Nov. 26 and 27, while our hardy pressmen take a well-deserved break. The exhibit re-opens on Sunday, Nov. 28 from 10 am to 5 pm.