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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.
Between 1578 and 1584, Spain commissioned its officials in Mexico to create sets of local maps that would include descriptions of local resoures, history and geography. At 6 pm on Tuesday, Oct. 18, Barbara Mundy will talk about that effort in “Mapping the New World for the Spanish Kings: The 16th-Century Project of the Relaciones […]
EVENT CANCELLED: Diane DeBlois and Robert Dalton Harris speak on “The Sky is Falling: A Culture of Fear in the Atomic Age,” at noon on Tuesday, Oct. 18, part of the Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture Series. Lectures are held in the John Gaw Meem Room. Enter through the museum's Washington Avenue entrance. Free.Harris, a physicist, […]
The idea of a plaza still resonates in the human imagination as a place where residents gather to celebrate, or to sit quietly in the shade and contemplate the passing parade. New Mexico has the longest and most varied traditions of such public space in the United States – from The Plazas of New Mexico […]
Join Joel B. Stein, a docent for the New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors for a discussion and signing f his book Santa Fe in a Week (More or Less). The event will be at 2 pm, Saturday, Oct. 15, in the John Gaw Meem Room. Enter for free through the Washington Avenue doors.This […]
Join Palace Guard for a tour to Central and Southern New Mexico. You'll explore sites of historic interest and one that will link us to the future of space travel. Not a Museum or Palace Guard member? Please call 505-982-6366, ext. 100 to join!
11:00-11:30: Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw, Questa, will be presenting "The Birth of a Picture Book"11:30-noon: Susan Gardner, Santa Fe, will be reading from new memoir "Drawing the Line - a Passionate Life"Noon-12:30 PM: Sallie Bingham, Santa Fe, presentation titled "Writing for the Majority: Fiction That Matters"12:30-1:30 PM: Publishers Forum: Q & A forum with New Mexico publishers […]
11:00-11:30 AM: Maggi A. Petton, Albuquerque, will discuss her first novel, "The Queen's Companion" 11:30-noon: Valerie Storey, Albuquerque, will be discussing "Book Trailers: How and Why You Need One Today"Noon-12:30 PM: Valentine McKay-Riddell, PH.D., Santa Fe, will be discussing “Real Magic: The River Goddess and Other Stories"12:30-1:00 PM: Hadley Finch, Santa Fe, will present "Journey from […]
11:00-11:30 AM: Catherine Wanek, Kingston, will be discussing "The Hybrid House, Designing with Sun, Wind, Water and Earth"11:30-noon: Bonnie Lee Black, Taos, will offer a presentation titled "From How to Cook a Wolf to How to Cook a Crocodile: One Writer's Journey" Noon-12:30 PM: Anne Hillerman, Santa Fe, will be discussing "Gardens of Santa Fe - What Makes them […]
4:30 - 5:00 PM: Piper Leigh, Santa Fe, will be reading from "My Thin-Skinned Wandering" 5:00-5:30 PM: Renee Gregorio, Joan Logghe, Miriam Sagan, Espanola, Albuquerque and El Rito, will read from "Love & Death"5:30-6:00 PM: Barbara Berkenfield, Santa Fe, will be reading from a presentation titled "Memories, Reflections, and Earth Connections"6:00-6:30 PM: Anne Valley-Fox, Santa Fe, will […]
11:00-11:30 AM: Sarah H. Baker, Albuquerque, will discuss "The New Face of Audio Books in New Mexico"11:30-noon: Karen Taschek, Corrales, will read from current novel "The Risen Home"Noon-12:30 PM: Judith Van Gieson, Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, will discuss "How Books Live On"12:30-1:00 PM: Marie Romero Cash, Santa Fe, will read from current work, a mystery based in the area "Shadows among […]
10:30-11:00 AM: Carolyn Sayler, Santa Fe, will discuss "Dorris Fleeson: Incomparably the First Political Journalist of Her Time" as well as the Fleeson family11:00 -11:30 AM: Loretta Hall, Albuquerque, will discuss "The Mercury Program's Women Astronauts (Not)"11:30 - noon: Victoria Rogers, Santa Fe, will be presenting "A Contemporary Look at Old Architecture"noon - 12:30 PM: Marcia Keegan, Santa Fe, will be showing […]
From barbers to caterers, mechanics to artists, African American entrepreneurs have made their mark on New Mexico. Learn more at this symposium, "Entrepreneurship in the African American Community, from 2-4 pm, on Sunday, Sept. 25, in the History Museum Auditorium. Free with admission. Sundays free to NM residents and children 16 and under.This event is […]
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