Prepare for Leonardo da Vinci at the Museum’s $5 First Friday on February 2

(Albuquerque, NM) – In anticipation of the February 10 opening of a blockbuster exhibition about Leonardo da Vinci, the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science is offering enjoyable family activities to introduce visitors to this well-known Renaissance artist, inventor, engineer, scientist, naturalist, and life-long learner. This orientation to the topics that will be […]

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Frederick Hammersley Exhibition will Travel to New Mexico Museum of Art

SAN MARINO, Calif.— The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens and the New Mexico Museum of Art announced today that “Frederick Hammersley: To Paint without Thinking,” an exhibition on view at The Huntington through Jan. 22, will travel to the New Mexico venue, where it will be on view from May 26 through Sept.

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Wonder on Wheels Mobile Museum Reached Thousands of School Students in New Mexico’s Rural Communities in 2017

(Santa Fe, NM) —  From mid-April through the end of 2017, the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs Wonder on Wheels (WoW) mobile museum was visited by 17,430 New Mexicans. WoW’s featured exhibit for 2017 sampled the vast paleontological resources held by the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science (NMMNHS) in Albuquerque. In

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History Museum & Santa Fe Opera presentations recognize New Mexico’s ‘Atomic Histories’

The New Mexico History Museum and the Santa Fe Opera will each feature presentations exploring New Mexico’s Atomic Histories during 2018 and 2019. The History Museum’s Atomic Histories exhibition opens June 3, 2018 and runs through May 2019. The exhibition will highlight American artist Meridel Rubenstein’s artwork including two photo/video/glass/steel installations from the traveling exhibition Critical Mass (1993-97) and “Oppenheimer’s Chair”

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Wonders on Wheels Exhibit, Featuring New Mexico’s Native American Tribes, Sets Out on the Road in 2018

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 2, 2017 (Santa Fe, NM)—Wonders on Wheels mobile museum presents a unique look at the twenty-four Native American tribal communities of New Mexico, told through the eyes of Pueblo, Apache, and Navajo children. Administered by the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC) and the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs

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O’Keeffe’s Desert Abstraction (Bear Lake) finds ‘forever home’ at the New Mexico Museum of Art

(Santa Fe, NM) In honor of the New Mexico Museum of Art Centennial year celebration, the Museum of New Mexico Foundation made permanent its long-term loan of Georgia O’Keeffe’s Desert Abstraction (Bear Lake) to the Museum. With this move, the 1931 O’Keeffe piece, becomes part of the Museum of Art’s permanent collection.  The painting is

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