New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs to offer free admission for New Mexicans affected by fires

Santa Fe, NM – The New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs (NMDCA) is offering free admission to each of the agency’s 15 museums and historic sites for residents impacted by the wildfires burning in the state as well as first responders and their families.  Through the end of June, residents of Colfax, Mora, San Miguel, […]

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Museum of Indian Arts & Culture celebrates Native lives and histories with its new permanent exhibition, Here, Now and Always

Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC), a division of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, will unveil its brand new permanent exhibition, Here, Now and Always, on July 2 and 3, 2022, on Museum Hill in Santa Fe.  MIAC’s curatorial project team worked in collaboration with Indigenous artists, scholars, and community members throughout

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State takes Wonders on Wheels with “Música Buena” to Carlsbad for an afternoon of free flamenco, music and food June 1

Santa Fe, New Mexico – Musica buena means good music, and that is what the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs’ Wonders on Wheels (WoW) 38-foot RV will bring to Carlsbad on Wednesday, June 1, 2022, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. for free. The event showcases the Museum of International Folk Arts’ (MOIFA) “Música

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New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs works to aid preservation work at Fort Stanton Historic Site

Fort Stanton, NM – New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs (NMDCA) and New Mexico Historic Sites announce that preservation work has begun on some of the historic buildings at Fort Stanton Historic Site. The department is spending $146,803 to preserve and stabilize properties throughout the site, including the Fort Stanton Marine Hospital, the Catholic Chapel,

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Nineteen-time Emmy® Award-Nominated PBS program ANTIQUES ROADSHOW coming to Santa Fe June 14 

Santa Fe, New Mexico – New Mexico residents will be bringing their precious heirlooms and garage sale treasures to Milner Plaza on Museum Hill on June 14, 2022, when ANTIQUES ROADSHOW arrives in the capital city.  Museum of International Folk Art and Museum of Indian Arts & Culture will be closed Monday, June 13 and

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Nineteen-time Emmy® Award-Nominated PBS program ANTIQUES ROADSHOW coming to Santa Fe June 14 

Santa Fe, New Mexico – New Mexico residents will be bringing their precious heirlooms and garage sale treasures to Milner Plaza on Museum Hill on June 14, 2022, when ANTIQUES ROADSHOW arrives in the capital city.  Museum of International Folk Art and Museum of Indian Arts & Culture will be closed Monday, June 13 and

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Sweet new exhibit “Chocolate” opens in June at NM Museum of Natural History & Science

Albuquerque, NM – Get ready, Chocoholics: a new exhibition that explores every aspect of your favorite sweet treat is coming to the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science (NMMNHS) this summer.  On June 17, the Museum will open the doors to “Chocolate: The Exhibition,” a traveling exhibit that engages the senses and traces

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Global supply chain and weather delay opening of new museum; preparing collection for upcoming move becomes focus

Santa Fe, NM – International supply chain issues and cold weather will delay completion of construction on the New Mexico Museum of Art (NMMOA) Vladem Contemporary. Production disruptions, particularly in the steel and lumber industry, have caused significant delays. Late March snowstorms and cold temperatures caused additional interruptions to the concrete work. As a result,

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Museum of International Folk Art Executive Director to head Dissemination and External Affairs at Getty Research Institute

SANTA FE, NM – The New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs (NMDCA) announced today that Khristaan Villela, executive director of Museum of International Folk Art and chair of arts and sciences for NMDCA, has become an associate director at Getty Research Institute. He will oversee the Dissemination and External Affairs.  The full release from GSI can

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Textiles on the Bosque Redondo Indian Reservation – R.B. Burnham & Company to hold art and rug auction on May 28

Fort Sumner, NM – As part of the grand opening of Bosque Redondo Memorial’s permanent exhibition “A Place of Suffering…A Place of Survival” on May 28, R.B. Burnham & Company will be hosting one of their Native American art and rug auction. They are a trading company situated in Sanders, Arizona, a small reservation border

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