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Telling New Mexico: Stories from Then and Now sweeps across more than 500 years of history—from the state’s earliest inhabitants to the residents of today. Stories are told through artifacts, videos, photographs, computer interacti...
New Mexico achieved statehood just two short years before the Great War broke out in Europe in 1914. Recruitment in the nascent state was aggressive, and New Mexicans stepped up to serve in large numbers. By the end of the first World War, New Mexico r...
This exhibition features 23 original graphic history art works by Santa Fe-based artist Turner Avery Mark-Jacobs. This display, ’The Massacre of Don Pedro Villasur,’ narrates the history of an ill-fated Spanish colonial military expedition ...
Reflecting current archaeological and historical perspectives, Palace Seen and Unseendraws from historic documents, photog...
This exhibition features 23 original graphic history art works by Santa Fe-based artist Turner Avery Mark-Jacobs. This display, ’The Massacre of Don Pedro Villasur,’ narrates the history of an ill-fated Spanish colonial military expedition which set o...
Santa Fe, NM – New Mexico History Museum (NMHM) is thinking about its place in the lives of New Mexicans and wants to better understand the diverse experiences and views of e...
Santa Fe, NM – New Mexico History Museum presents the Smithsonian traveling exhibition Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and Wo...
Santa Fe, NM – Adelina (Nina) Otero-Warren’s incredible impact on history and contribution to the suffrage movement is being nationally recognized as she becomes ...
Santa Fe, NM – New Mexico History Museum (NMHM) is pleased to announce the Fray Angélico Chávez History Library and Palace of the Governors Photo Archives...
Santa Fe, NM – New Mexico History Museum (NMHM) is excited to share that Fray Angélico Chávez History Library (FACHL) has completed the work associated wi...
Santa Fe, NM – New Mexico History Museum (NMHM) and the Fray Angélico Chávez History Library (FACHL) are proud to announce that Marcy Botwick, a master’s candidate at University of New Mexico (UNM), has been s...
Santa Fe, NM — The New Mexico History Museum (NMHM) is pleased to announce the opening of Honoring Tradition and Innovation,...
Santa Fe, NM – On April 23, please join New Mexico History Museum (NMHM) and the New Mexico Japanese American Citizens League (NMJACL)...
Santa Fe, NM - The New Mexico History Museum is pleased to present Curative Powers: New Mexico’s Hot Springs, a pho...
SANTA FE – New Mexico History Museum (NMHM) has received a $172,564 award from the National Endowment for the Humanities’ American Rescue Plan to pursue research related to an upcoming exhibition on Miguel Trujill...
Since 2010, the New Mexico History Museum (NMHM) has been presenting talks about Fred Harvey history, which have grown into the annual Fred Harvey History Weekend and the Fred Harvey Foodie Dinner & Auction at La Fonda on...
Beginning in 2003, photographers Siegfried Halus and Greg Mac Gregor set out to document contemporary changes to the lands of the American West that Franciscan friars Atanasio Domínguez and Sil...
Filled with more than 400 years of antiquity and culture, the New Mexico History Museum (NMHM)...
The New Mexico History Museum (NMHM) is pleased to announce that t...
SANTA FE – If you have missed learning about the American West and the history of our state’s many cultures, then the New Mexico History Museum (NMHM) has some good news for you! The museum will reopen to the public on a sliding sched...
Parkhurst, T. Harmon (1883 – 1952)
Staab and Galisteo Buildings, West San Francisco Street at Galisteo Street, ca. 1933–34
Film Negative, 8 x 10
Palace of the Governors/Photo Archives, 51463
Logsdon, Paul (1939 – 1989)
New Mexico State Penitentiary, Looking Southeast, n.d.
Silver Gelatin Print, 8 x 10
Palace of the Governors/Photo Archives, 122343
Dingee, Tyler (1906 – 1961)
El Paseo Theatre, West San Francisco Street, 1959
Silver Gelatin Print, 5 x 7
Palace of the Governors/Photo Archives, 91900
On display in the Palace of the Governors, the Segesser Hides are a jewel of New Mexico’s museum collections and bear the first known depictions of Spanish colonial life in the United States. The hides illustrate an ambush in present-day Nebraska of a 1720 expedition led by the then-Lt. Governor of New Mexico. Painted on animal hide, likely bison, they are believed to have been created in New Mexico, where imported canvas was rare.
The hides found their way back to the Southwest—and eventually to the Palace—more than 200 years after Philipp von Segesser von Brunegg, a Jesuit priest, sent them to his family in Switzerland in 1758. It is believed that he acquired them in Sonora, Mexico, between 1732 and 1758, from the Anzas, a family that was prominent in military and civil affairs in both New Mexico and the Sonoran village where Father Segesser’s mission was situated.
Besides viewing them at the Palace, visitors can enjoy a computer-interactive exhibit in the History Museum that highlights various parts of the hides.
New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors. Photo by Blair Clark, New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs.
Map Le Nouveau Mexique et la Floride
France, 1656
photo by T. Harmon Parkhurst
Pueblo Indian Vendors, portal, Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1920?
Photo Archive, Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe
neg. # 069973
The Fashioning New Mexico includes a display of historic under garments and an interactive exhibit that invites visitors to practice tying a corset and check out the many layers of slips it took to wear a hoop skirt.
Photograph by Blair Clark, New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs.
Santa Fe Fiesta wear and Mariachi costumes in the Fashioning New Mexico exhibit.
Photograph by Blair Clark, New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs.
Luxurious opera gowns, including a costume on loan from the Santa Fe Opera (far left), in the Fashioning New Mexico exhibit.
Photograph by Blair Clark, New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs.
Discover design thinking and how to apply it to learn more about user needs and develop more delightful, useable, and effective products, services, and systems. Lecturer Hugh Dubberly of Dubberly Design Office, San Francisco, with a list of clients that includes some of largest corporations including Amazon, Ebay, Facebook, Google, and McDonalds. Dubberly has also taught design courses at Carnegie […]
The election of 1860 turned on the issue of the expansion of slavery into the western territories–especially into the New Mexico Territory. Following Lincoln’s election, the white South, believing a Republican president would abolish the institution of slavery throughout the country, panicked and began making plans to secede. The 8,000 pages of documents produced by […]
Hosted by the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project (APP) and the New Mexico History Museum. The featured reader Santa Fe poet and winner of the 2017 Lummox Poetry Award, Mary McGinnis, will talk about her experience in being the guest artist for the APP. McGinnis led two workshops at local assisted living centers for people living with […]
.The New Mexico Museum of Art’s collection of more than 1,700 works by Baumann is the largest holding of the artist’s work in any public collection and illustrates Baumann’s breadth of artistic interest. Additionally, the New Mexico History Museum and its Press at the Palace of the Governors focuses on the artist’s process with a […]
A Future-Oriented Preservation Is this an oxymoron? Can historic preservation be more about the future than the past? Atkin Olshin Schade Architects (Santa Fe, NM and Philadelphia, PA) believes so. Shawn Evans, AIA, Principal of AOS Architects, will explain their innovative approach to historic preservation and discuss the exhibition of their work currently up in […]
Join Chimayo author Peter Malmgren in a discussion of his new book, incorporating collected oral histories from Hispanic families displaced from their lives on the Pajarito Plateau, and the hundreds of unsung workers who helped to build and staff the Manhattan Project and the Los Alamos National Laboratory in its early years. Free Auditorium event […]
During the golden age of penmanship (1860 - 1930), before the typewriter, becoming a Master Penman was the path to a successful career and high regard of friends and colleagues. Businesses required competent penmen for purposes of managing records, writing policies and executing certificates and many continued their craft by teaching penmanship throughout the country. […]
New Mexican Railroad Celebration Timeline 5:00pm Lite pre-reception 6:00- Auditorium Event Begins Welcome:Melanie LaBorwit, NMHM Educator Brief remarks by: Jim Terhune, Railroad Celebration Event Organizer Peter Ives, Mayor Pro Tem Rick Hendricks, New Mexico State Historian Fred Friedman, New Mexico Railroad Historian Main Speakers: Ed Pulsifer, Manager La Fonda Hotel Christene Aldeis, Country’s first locomotive […]
With the passing of the 150th commemoration of the signing of the Navajo Treaty of 1868, many questions have arisen regarding the future direction of Fort Sumner Historic Site/Bosque Redondo Memorial. But before discussing the future, it is necessary to visit the past. This talk will briefly discuss the history of Fort Sumner, the Navajo Treaty of […]
2018 Santa Fe Fiesta Symposium Speakers & Topics Timeline: 10:00am: Miguel A. Tórrez from Los Alamos National Laboratory *Q. n A. 11:00-Enrique R. Lamadrid, University of New Mexico professor *Q. n A. 12:00-1:00pm: Lunch break 1:15pm: *Moises Gonzales, University of New Mexico professor *Q. n A. 2:15-3:30pm: Andrés Reséndez, History professor at the University of […]
A major figure in American conservation, Stewart Udall (1920-2010) served in the cabinets of JFK and LBJ and was the most successful U.S. Secretary of the Interior in history. A progressive Mormon from rural Arizona, Udall helped create dozens of new national parks and wildlife refuges in the 1960s and was a major player in […]
Come explore railroad heritage this month and learn about future train technologies. Making History’s monthly hands-on program will defy the rules of gravity as we experiment with the science behind magnetic levitation, or Maglev trains. All ages welcome. Free with admission, New Mexico residents free first Sunday of the month.
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