Get a dose of old-fashioned charm at the 25th anniversary of the annual Christmas at the Palace -- a must-do event for a proper, Santa Fe-style holiday. Held in the 400-year-old Palace of the Governors, a National Historic Landmark, the evening is a popular community gathering with Santa, music and more.Children visit with Santa, families […]
It’s a New Mexico icon: Native American vendors at the Palace of the Governors. See what the future of their creations holds at the Portal Children's Christmas Exhibit and Sale Dec. 12 and 13, 10 am to 4 pm. Children and grandchildren from 6-17 years old, following in the footsteps of the families who create […]
Besides Christmas Day, the New Mexico History Museum will be closed on Christmas Eve in compliance with the state government furlough day. Doors will reopen at 10 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 26.
Ming Dynasty china. Pearls. Gold. Travelers surely found El Camino Real a rugged way to go, but the items they carried with them included some of the finest luxuries of the day. Cordelia Thomas Snow, a historic-sites archaeologist explores those goods in a free, public presentation at 6 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 14, in the New […]
Worried about how well you’re safeguarding that family finery tucked into a closet or stuffed into a cedar chest? Learn how professionals care for heirloom textiles at a New Mexico History Museum workshop from 2-4 pm on Saturday, Jan. 16. The Museum is at 113 Lincoln Avenue in downtown Santa Fe. The workshop costs $12, […]
Renovations will temporarily close the Palace of the Governors Photo Archives and the Fray Angelico Chavez History Library on Friday through Feb. 9. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Join us for lectures on the pioneers of the Blackdom community and the African-American experience in New Mexico at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 31, in the New Mexico History Museum Auditorium. As a special treat, the Afro-Gospel Praise Experience will rock the house with a mixture of Afro-Latin rhythms and traditional gospel music throughout […]
Join former Reuters photojournalist Nancy McGirr for a free talk on the Guatemalan-based nonprofit, Fotokids, in the museum's John Gaw Meem Room. Fotokids began in 1991 when McGirr taught a small group of children who lived in a Guatemala City dump to document their lives in black-and-white photography.Now in its 19th year, Fotokids has served […]
Dr. Frances Levine will speak on “In Her Own Voice: Doña Teresa Aguilera y Roche and Intrigue in the Palace of the Governors, 1659-1662,” at 2 pm Saturday, Feb. 20, in the New Mexico History Museum Auditorium. The event is free with museum admission.The latest lecture in support of the exhibit Santa Fe Found: Fragments […]
The New Mexico History Museum will be closed on Friday, March 5, for the state government furlough day. We regret the inconvenience, but invite you to join us when we resume regular hours at 10 a.m., Saturday, March 6.
Is Santa Fe really 400 years old? Join Thomas Chávez, former director of the Palace of the Governors, for a lecture on the "first" founder of Santa Fe, Juan Martínez de Montoya. This latest lecture in support of the exhibit Santa Fe Found: Fragments of Time is free with museum admission. The lecture series also […]
– In Victorian times, you didn’t change your clothes to fit your body; you changed your body to fit your clothes. What all those hoop skirts, bustles, corsets and slips added up to will be revealed in a special presentation by “Miss Tabitha” (aka Sharon Guli) at a New Mexico History Museum event, 2 p.m., […]
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