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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.
The 11th Annual Native Cinema Showcase, Aug. 15-21, is presented by the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian and the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, sponsors of the Santa Fe Indian Market. The films, in the History Museum Auditorium, are free. Seating is limited, and drinks and food are not permitted.The full schedule:Monday, August […]
The 11th Annual Native Cinema Showcase, Aug. 15-21, is presented by the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian and the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, sponsors of the Santa Fe Indian Market. The films, in the History Museum Auditorium, are free. Seating is limited, and drinks and food are not permitted.The full schedule:Monday, August […]
Learn more about the pioneering explorations and cultural adventures of Don Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco, when Spanish colonial art historian Felipe R. Mirabal speaks on the scientist, explorer, cartographer and santero. Mirabal’s lecture, “Defining the Colonial World: The Explorations Don Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco,” is at 2 pm, Sunday, Aug. 14, in the […]
Way back when, folks defined an economic crisis not by debt ceilings, hedge funds and fiscal neutrality, but by a lack of beaver pelts. Step back to the days of living off the land when the family-friendly Santa Fe Mountain Man Trade Fair takes over the Palace Courtyard, Aug. 11-14. Craftspeople and re-enactors in period […]
Way back when, folks defined an economic crisis not by debt ceilings, hedge funds and fiscal neutrality, but by a lack of beaver pelts. Step back to the days of living off the land when the family-friendly Santa Fe Mountain Man Trade Fair takes over the Palace Courtyard, Aug. 11-14. Craftspeople and re-enactors in period […]
Thumbing through most history books, you might have to look extra hard to find stories about women. That’s especially true for Native American women. Despite playing critical roles within Native society, their stories are largely unknown. Eunice Petramala will begin to fill in those gaps when she speaks on “Through Her Eyes: An American Indian […]
Way back when, folks defined an economic crisis not by debt ceilings, hedge funds and fiscal neutrality, but by a lack of beaver pelts. Step back to the days of living off the land when the family-friendly Santa Fe Mountain Man Trade Fair takes over the Palace Courtyard, Aug. 11-14. Craftspeople and re-enactors in period […]
Way back when, folks defined an economic crisis not by debt ceilings, hedge funds and fiscal neutrality, but by a lack of beaver pelts. Step back to the days of living off the land when the family-friendly Santa Fe Mountain Man Trade Fair takes over the Palace Courtyard, Aug. 11-14. Craftspeople and re-enactors in period […]
Join members of the Española Valley Fiber Arts Center as they demonstrate Pueblo, Navajo and Spanish weaving techniques in the Palace Courtyard. “Homespun: Northern New Mexico Spinning and Weaving Techniques” is part of the exhibit Home Lands: How Women Made the West. The event is free with museum admission. Sundays free to NM residents and […]
“Party with El Palacio” on Friday, Aug. 5, features a free triple-header of an evening with award-winning author Pam Houston, Albuquerque bluegrass band Breaking Blue and spoken-word poet Carlos Contreras. The event begins at 5 pm, with a reading and book signing by Houston in the New Mexico History Museum Auditorium. (Seating is limited.) At […]
Join the History Museum and the New Mexico Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts for a conference on "Women Planting Seeds: Home, Healing and Horticulture," from 9 am to 4:30 pm, on Monday, July 25, and 9 am to 12 pm, on Tuesday, July 26, in the History Museum Auditorium. The […]
Begin collecting art, jewelry, pottery and more from the next generation of Native American artists and craftspeople at the annual Young Natives Arts & Crafts Show. Children and grandchildren of artists associated with the Palace of the Governors' Portal Program will demonstrate their own arts and crafts in the Palace Courtyard from 9 am to […]
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