Sam Scarpino, a Santa Fe Institute resident, talks on the theme of “shock” at a free CreativeMornings event on Wednesday, October 14, 9–10 am. Besides Scarpino’s brief TED-like talk, you can network with creative professionals and enjoy pastries and coffee from the Santa Fe Baking Co. Support provided by the St. Vincent Hospital Foundation. Using […]
Don Edwards, a premier performer of old-time ballads and cowboy songs, returns to the New Mexico History Museum Auditorium at 2 pm on Sunday, October 18, performing The Legend of Jack Thorp. Tickets for Edwards’ performance are $25 and will go on sale Sept. 1 at the History Museum Shop; call (505) 982-9543 or go […]
Building on the excitement of the museum’s Setting the Standard: the Fred Harvey Company and its Legacy exhibit, we invite the Harvey family and Harvey history enthusiasts to join us at La Fonda on the Plaza for a very special event. This intimate gathering will feature a catered three-course dinner in the Santa Fe Room. Surrounded by Gerald Cassidy paintings and Arnold Ronnebeck bas-reliefs and situated […]
Join documentary maker Katrina Parks for a sneak peek at her newest interviews with former Harvey Girls in New Mexico. Joining her for a discussion following are Harvey family members and Stephen Fried, author of Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West—One Meal at a Time. Parks directed the […]
Two museums, two parties, one night of fun. Grab the kids, don a costume, and head to the Santa Fe Plaza for a progressive Halloween party on Friday, October 30, at the Museum of Art and New Mexico History Museum. We’ll have music, treasure hunts, ghost stories, tarot cards and more. And it’s all free, […]
Starting Nov. 1 through April, the New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors will be closed on Mondays, but open 10 am to 5 pm Tuesday through Sunday. In addition, Free Friday Evenings, 5 to 8 pm, will change from every Friday to only the first Friday of each month. Summer hours resume May 1, […]
Find out what the Palace Guard is all about at this annual reception. Museum curators share their favorite stories and artifacts and give a special peek at what goes on behind-the-scenes of a world-class museum. Reservations: (505) 982-7799, ext. 4.
Get a crafty start on the holidays. The Palace Press and the Santa Fe Book Arts Group are cleaning out their studios -- and you profit. Come to the multi-vendor flea market on Saturday, Nov. 7, from 10 am to 2 pm in the Meem Community Room. Purchase art and craft supplies, handmade books and […]
With casualties in the Civil War reaching unfathomable numbers equalling about 2.5 percent of the entire population, the ways that both sides of the war grappled with death and dying changed drastically. In Death in the Civil War, a PBS documentary, we learn how America dealt with large-scale deaths of unidentified people and the cultural […]
During World War II, Santa Fe was the site of one of the nation’s largest Justice Department internment camps. It primarily housed Japanese immigrants, among them the Rev. Tamasaku Watanabe. On Sunday, November 15, at 2 pm, Watanabe’s granddaughter, Dr. Gail Okawa, speaks on a brain-twisting aspect of that heartbreaking period: Even as our government […]
Dale Rice speaks on “Taco Bell They Ain’t: Short Histories of TexMex, Mexican and New Mexican Cuisines”, part of the 2015 Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture Series in the Meem Community Room. Enter for free through the History Museum’s Washington Avenue doors. A longtime journalist and communications lecturer at Texas A&M, Rice once worked as the […]
The staff of the New Mexico History Museum wishes you a happy Thanksgiving. We’ll be closed today, but open at 10 am on Friday, Nov. 27. See you then?
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