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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.
This presentation examines the role of racial mixing, identity, and the categorizing of humans living in Spanish Colonial New Mexico. The approach will be through the lens of the casta, or caste system. Historical research, genealogy, and DNA all converge to provide a clearer understanding of Hispano roots in New Mexico, as well as in […]
MIAC is honored to host its second annual Trailblazer Awards, this year honoring print and broadcast journalist Royale Dá, radio host and producer Tara Gatewood, videographer and documentarian Diane Reyna, and radio host and producer Beulah Sunrise. Join us during Women’s History Month to celebrate their lives and work. Please note that the awards ceremony […]
Join us for a special event in celebration of the closing out of National Women’s History Month and the closing of our exhibition “We the Rosie’s: Women at Work”. The exhibition showcases a 3D printed sculpture of Rosie the Riveter created through the crowdsourced effort of nearly 700 people, containing 2,625 individual parts. Enjoy your […]
Please join us for a lite public reception in our main lobby to celebrate the opening of our new short-term exhibition, Looking Back: Reflecting on Collections. The Women’s Board will provide refreshments from 1-3pm, while supplies last, and admission to the museum will be complimentary during these (2) hours hours.
Dr. Romero will discuss the New Mexico History Museum’s newest exhibition, Looking Back: Reflecting on Collections, scheduled to open to the public on March 8, 2020. This show focuses on the museum’s collecting history, from the earliest beginnings at the Palace of the Governors through the 21st century. She and other museum curators and colleagues […]
Bring your crafting skills to the classroom and learn how tiny beetles that live on cactus may become your favorite shade of red. We will be mixing cochineal based watercolors. All material supplied, just bring your imagination! All ages welcome-free with admission.
Join us for Iconik coffee and bagels and hear John Rochester, Wealth Advisor, Senior Investment Management Consultant and Senior Vice President with Morgan Stanley Wealth Management speak on Investing In Your Community. Learn how the principles of investing relate to the return on volunteering time and talent to support local organizations. John has a long […]
With the temperament of Santa Claus and the tenacity of a badger, Jack Loeffler reveals his compassion and concern for Southwestern traditional cultures and their respective habitats in the wake of Manifest Destiny. Working both as an individual and with comrades--including Edward Abbey and Gary Snyder--he was part of an early coterie of counterculturalists and […]
Antonio de Mendoza, the architect of the Coronado Expedition of 1539-1542, had as his main goal to complete Columbus’s project of reaching Asia, by traveling westward from Spain. Europeans of the day were sure that was possible by land from Mexico City, and information from Native Americans indicated it would take only a few months. […]
Bring your crafting skills to make old-timey Valentines to take home or send to a sweetheart, inspired by historic cards from the museum’s collection. All ages welcome, and free with admission.
Please join us for a talk by author Devorah Romanek, and joined by Hannah Abelbeck, New Mexico History Museum Photo Archivist, and Jennifer Nez Dennetdale, Associate Professor of American Studies, University of New Mexico, on this compelling book which captures a fraught and complex moment in the history of the American Southwest. In the aftermath […]
The decades between the Civil War and the end of World War I have been described as the United States’ workshop of democracy. During these sixty years, as contemporary observer Walt Whitman remarked, "not merely a nation but a teeming Nation of nations" pulled itself together to build an American Republic. One special project was molding […]
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