Spring Community Fun Day is an opportunity to celebrate springtime with those cloesest to you! In our current time of social distancing, the New Mexico Museum of Art has created some fun, festive activities for you to enjoy from home.  Visit the Spring Community Fun Day page for virtual access to this event! 

Slow Art Day is a global event with a simple mission: to help more people discover for themselves the joy of looking at and loving art. Why slow? When people look slowly at a piece of art they make discoveries. The most important discovery they make is that they can see and experience art without an expert (or […]

A talk with artists featured in the exhibition on display from February 15, 2020 - April 12, 2020.   Free admission 

The last in the New Mexico Museum of Art’s Winter Lecture Series, cosponsored with El Rancho de las Golondrinas. State Historian Rob Martinez discusses “Brujería: A History of Witchcraft in New Mexico." Tickets are $10 at the door. Free for members of El Rancho de Las Golondrinas or Museum of New Mexico Foundation  

Draped, live model figure drawing on the stage of St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art. $5 suggested donation Limited to 15 people. Registration required. Please call Museum Educator Amanda Formby at 505-476-5070 to reserve your spot.

Christian Waguespack, Curator of 20th Century Art, examines the contrast of Italian and Northern Renaissance Art. St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art Free admission   Image Credit: Cornelis Cort, The Crucifixion, after Giulio Clovio, 1568, Hand-colored engraving with bodycolor, heightened with gold and white, printed on blue-gray silk. ©The Trustees of the British […]

The National Endowment for the Arts and The Poetry Foundation have partnered with state arts agencies to support the expansion of Poetry Out Loud, a program that encourages the nation’s youth to learn about great poetry through memorization and recitation. This event is free and open to the public. Hosted by the New Mexico Museum […]

Join us for a Public Opening Reception for the exhibition on display from February 15, 2020 - April 12, 2020. Alcoves 2020 #3 featured artists: Debra Baxter, Amy Ellingson, Munson Hunt, Jonathon Parker, and Todd Ryan White  Free admission 

In the Conversations with Collections series, you are invited to go behind the scenes of the New Mexico Museum of Art to see what it takes to care for a wide-ranging collection. You will learn how to apply museum techniques and practices to care for your own heirlooms and belongings. We will also explore in-depth […]

The second in the New Mexico Museum of Art’s Winter Lecture Series, cosponsored with El Rancho de las Golondrinas. Charlie Carrillo, Ph.D, santero and anthropologist/archaeologist, talks on "Voice of the Hermandad: The History and Ritual of Penitentes." Tickets are $10 at the door. Free admission for members of El Rancho de Las Golondrinas or Museum […]

Draped, live model figure drawing on the stage of St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art. $5 suggested donation  Limited to 15 people. Registration required. Please call Museum Educator Amanda Formby at 505-476-5070 to reserve your spot.  

Continuing the School for Advanced Research’s 2019-2020 Creative Thought Forum series, archaeologist Ruth Van Dyke presents this year’s annual Linda S. Cordell lecture and shares insights into social, political, and sensorial relationships across the greater Chaco landscape, past and present. She explores how archaeologists can work together with Native peoples to influence the public understanding […]