Drugs: Costs and Consequences & Brain: The Inside Story Exhibitions Come to Albuquerque in 2019

(Albuquerque, New Mexico) — The alarming escalation in opioid, methamphetamine, and illegal drug deaths in New Mexico and throughout the United States has reached epidemic proportions. As an engaged public institution and community partner, the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science will host two timely exhibitions in early 2019, Drugs: Costs and Consequences; and, Brain: The […]

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Former MOIFA Director & Guest Curator receive prestigious Michael M. Ames Award for Innovative Museum Anthropology

(Santa Fe, New Mexico) – Former Museum of International Folk Art Director Dr. Marsha Bol and guest curator Dr. Suzanne Seriff are the 2018 recipients of the Michael M. Ames Award for innovative Museum Anthropology for the work from 2010-2017 in the founding and developing of the Mark Naylor and Dale Gunn Gallery of Conscience

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Museum’s Unique Fossil Collection & Paleoart Exhibit open for Paleontologists Convention in Albuquerque

(Albuquerque, New Mexico) —   Rarely seen fossil specimens from the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science’s permanent collection will be on display for public viewing starting in late September, as the museum readies to host the 78th annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) convention meeting in Albuquerque Oct. 17-20, 2018.

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New Mexico Native, Descendent of a Taos Artist & Art Professor Donates Family’s Art Collection to New Mexico Museum of Art

(Santa Fe, New Mexico) – A collection of 16 Southwestern works, prints, etchings, drawings, and two paintings, have been donated to the New Mexico Museum of Art by long-time New Jersey resident and New Mexico native, Leonora (Lee) Welsher whose last wish was that both her ashes and the artwork be returned “home to New Mexico.”

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“Admission by Donation” for 4 days as Da Vinci Moves Out & $10 Museum/Planetarium Combo Ticket Debuts Labor Day

(Albuquerque, New Mexico) – Following enormous popularity and public support for the Da Vinci—The Genius exhibition, held-over at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science (NMMNHS) through Wednesday, August 29, the Museum will offer four pay-what-you-can days to exhibits and planetarium shows Thursday through Sunday, August 30, 31, September 1 and 2 – which is the normal

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Museum of Indian Arts & Culture awarded $460,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities

(Santa Fe, New Mexico) — The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC), announced today that it has been awarded a $460,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support the redesign and reinstallation of MIAC’s permanent exhibition, Here, Now and Always.   This $460,000 grant award is the maximum amount awarded in

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Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women Since 1492: Navajo Quilt to be exhibited for a limited time at Museum of International Folk Art

(Santa Fe, New Mexico) –  Acclaimed Navajo quilter Susan Hudson’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Since 1492 will be on exhibition at the Museum of International Folk Art for a limited showing from August 16 through September 17, 2018 The quilt depicts four dresses representing the past, present, future and the four directions. When a woman

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