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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.
Author David Farmer speaks on noted American printmaker Willard Clark, whose wood blocks and typography came to define Santa Fe's 1930s and '40s style.This event is free and open to the public. The lecture series is usually held at the Fray Angelico Chavez History Library, 120 Washington Ave.; for large crowds, the event will be […]
The New Mexico History Museum will observe these openings and closings on Memorial Day weekend:Friday, May 28: Closed. State employee furlough daySaturday and Sunday, May 29 and 30: Open, 10 am to 5 pmMonday, May 31: Open, 10 am to 5 pm. Memorial Day.The Palace Press will be closed May 28 through May 31.Beginning May […]
Wild at Heart: Ernest Thompson Seton dedicates itself to telling the often overlooked story of the conservationist, author, artist, lecturer and co-founder of the Boy Scouts of America. Ernest Thompson Seton’s impact on America’s conservation movement was immeasurable but, today is largely forgotten. Wild at Heart: Ernest Thompson Seton sets out to change that.Running through […]
The New Mexico History Museum opened its doors to the public for the first time on May 23, 2009. Help us mark the first anniversary of that historic event on Saturday and Sunday with free admission, special events and the opening of the new exhibit, Wild at Heart: Ernest Thompson Seton. SATURDAY, MAY 2210 am […]
The New Mexico History Museum opened its doors to the public for the first time on May 23, 2009. Help us mark the first anniversary of that historic event on Saturday and Sunday with free admission, special events and the opening of the new exhibit, Wild at Heart: Ernest Thompson Seton. SATURDAY, MAY 2210 am […]
Academy Award-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler and research neuroscientist James F. Pagel will present new ideas in science and technology in the telling of a story. The event is in the New Mexico History Museum Auditorium. Seating is free, first come, first served. The event is sponsored by Milagro at Los Luceros.“For the filmmaker, ‘story’ describes […]
David Witt, co-curator of the New Mexico History Museum special exhibition Wild at Heart, speaks on "How the Wolves of Union County Transformed Ernest THompson Seton (and America)." This event is free and open to the public. The lecture series is usually held at the Fray Angelico Chavez History Library, 120 Washington Ave.; for large […]
Historians, artists and scholars will offer their thoughts on various aspects of the santero’s craft May 14-16 at a special symposium, “New Mexico’s Devotional Art: An Amalgam of Ethnicity, Artistic and Cultural Traditions.” The lectures are free with museum admission; see the schedule of speakers below. The symposium builds on Tesoros de Devoción, a long-term […]
Historians, artists and scholars will offer their thoughts on various aspects of the santero’s craft May 14-16 at a special symposium, “New Mexico’s Devotional Art: An Amalgam of Ethnicity, Artistic and Cultural Traditions.” The lectures are free with museum admission; see the schedule of speakers below. The symposium builds on Tesoros de Devoción, a long-term […]
Historians, artists and scholars will offer their thoughts on various aspects of the santero’s craft May 14-16 at a special symposium, “New Mexico’s Devotional Art: An Amalgam of Ethnicity, Artistic and Cultural Traditions.” The lectures are free with museum admission; see the schedule of speakers below. The symposium builds on Tesoros de Devoción, a long-term […]
Pedro de Peralta’s conflicted legacy in the founding of Santa Fe will be discussed by Dr. Joseph Sánchez at 6 p.m., Thursday, May 13, in the New Mexico History Museum Auditorium. Enter through the Washington Avenue doors for this event, part of the Santa Fe 400th lecture series.Whether Santa Fe was in fact established in […]
Noted author and historian Richard Melzer will speak on the “The Civilian Conservation Corps Experience in New Mexico,” the next talk in the Telling New Mexico Inaugural Lecture Series, at 2 p.m., Sunday, May 2, in the History Museum Auditorium. The event costs $10. Tickets are available at the museum shops and at www.museumfoundation.org/tellingnm.Note: This […]
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