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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.
Come enjoy the museum on Friday, Dec. 31, from 10 am to 5 pm. (Note: Though we're usually open for free 5-8 pm on Fridays, we're closing at 5 pm this Friday to give our wonderful staff time to bid adios to 2010.)
The Palace Press will close on Tuesdays through Jan. 18. Until then, the press is open Wednesday through Sunday 10 am to 5 pm.
The museum will be closed on Saturday, Dec. 25, for the Christmas holiday. We re-open at 10 am on Sunday, Dec. 26, a great time to get the family out of the house for a fun outing.
Looking for something fun to do on Christmas Eve? Visit the History Museum. We're open from 10 am to 5 pm. (Yup, we're closing up a little earlier than usual on this particular Friday.)
The Palace Press will close on Tuesdays through Jan. 18. Until then, the press is open Wednesday through Sunday 10 am to 5 pm.
Maritime Archaeologist Eric Ray speaks on “Navio Quebrado: The Wreck of La Belle and the Failed French Colony in the Southwest” at 2 pm, Sunday, Dec. 19, in the History Museum Auditorium. The lecture is free with admission; Sundays free to NM residents. The Threads of Memory Lecture Series accompanies the U.S. debut of the […]
Diné storyteller Sunny Dooley shares native tales in the Wild at Heart: Ernest Thompson Seton exhibition space at 10:30 am, Saturday, Dec. 18. This family event is free with museum admission (children are always free). Dooley is a storyteller, poet, playwright, lecturer, and folksinger from a Four Corners community called Chi Chil' Tah (Where the […]
It’s a New Mexico icon: Native American vendors at the Palace of the Governors. See what the future of their creations holds as children and grandchildren of the Portal Artisans show off their creations -- and give you a chance to pick up some nifty Christmas presents. Come to the John Gaw Meem Room on […]
The Palace Press will close on Tuesdays through Jan. 18. Until then, the press is open Wednesday through Sunday 10 am to 5 pm.
The annual candle-lit procession of Las Posadas travels around the Santa Fe Plaza and concludes in the Palace Courtyard. This version of an old Hispanic tradition recreates Mary and Joseph's search for a place to give birth to the Baby Jesus – and throws in a few devils for good measure. Stay for carols in the Palace […]
Get a dose of old-fashioned charm at the 27th anniversary of the annual Christmas at the Palace -- a must-do event for a proper, Santa Fe-style holiday. Held in the 400-year-old Palace of the Governors, a National Historic Landmark, the evening is a popular community gathering with Santa, music and more.Children visit with Santa, families […]
Enjoy a special evening with Cuban literary superstar, Pablo Armando Fernadez, as he reads from his poetry at 6 pm, Friday, Dec. 3, in the New Mexico History Museum Auditorium, followed by a reception. This free event is co-sponsored by the Lannan Foundation, Museum of New Mexico Foundation, and the Information Trust as a benefit […]
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