Apr 1, 2012
Screening of Ausangate
Museum of International Folk Art
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Film & talk
Apr 5, 2012 - Jun 13, 2012
Books Books and More Books!! We need books!!
New Mexico Museum of Art
Annual Book Sale to Support the Library and Archives
This is the 6th year of the sale and the funds are well used to support our library and archives!
Donations will be accepted at our front desk through June 13.
Apr 7, 2012
Early Friday evening closing
New Mexico History Museum
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Apr 8, 2012
Museum Closed: Easter Sunday
New Mexico History Museum
New Mexico History Museum and Palace of the Governors
Apr 8, 2012
Museum Closed: Easter Sunday
New Mexico Museum of Art
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
New Mexico Museum of Art
Apr 8, 2012
Museum Closed: Easter Sunday
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Museum of Indian Art and Culture
Apr 8, 2012
Museum Closed: Easter Sunday
Museum of International Folk Art
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Museum of International Folk Art
Apr 9, 2012
Members Monday: Mapping New Mexico
Museum of New Mexico
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Museum of New Mexico Foundation
Apr 13, 2012
Alcove Artists Gallery Talks
New Mexico Museum of Art
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Meet New Mexico artists David Forlano, Jane Lackey, Ted Larsen and Linda Swanson as they each share the spot light to discuss their work and installations. Part of the museum's new Alcove 12.1 exhibition, the first in a year-long series.
Free Friday Evening, April 13, 2012 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Apr 14, 2012
Vista Verde Rock Art Tour
Office of Archaeological Studies
Friends of Archaeology Event
Dr. Richard Ford will lead strenuous hikes (about four miles total) to three areas of rock art west of the Taos Junction Bridge near Pilar. The petroglyphs are unusual for the Rio Grande Valley and are dominated by Plains-style images.
The trip fee is $65 per person for FOA members; $75 for non-FOA members. To make a reservation or for more information, please call the MNMF hotline at 982-7799, Ext. 5 after 12:05 am, March 14, 2012.
Not a Museum of New Mexico Foundation or Friends of Archaeology member? Please call 505-982-6366, ext. 100 or click JOIN!
Apr 15, 2012
Put a Spring in Your Step: Earth Day Celebration
Jemez Historic Site
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Nature Hike
Rangers will lead a hike up Oak Canyon (a.k.a. Church Canyon). This is a strenuous hike over rough terrain (approximately 1.5 miles)—hikers should bring water, sturdy shoes, sunscreen and a sack lunch. Rangers will do their best to identify the species of flora and fauna encountered.
Apr 16, 2012 - Apr 30, 2012
Historical Downtown Walking Tours
New Mexico History Museum
10:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Monday thru Saturday
Apr 16, 2012
Appetite for Art: The Path and Promise of Statehood
New Mexico History Museum
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Circles Member Event
This Circles lunch and lecture will feature a talk by New Mexico History Museum Librarian, Tomas Jaehn, on the winding road that both delayed and propelled New Mexico toward statehood. A long sought goal that took more than 60 years to achieve.
Not a New Mexico Museum Foundation Circle member? Please call (505) 982-6366, ext. 116 or click JOIN!
Apr 18, 2012
Understanding William Howard Taft
New Mexico History Museum
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
A Centennial Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture
Join Noel Pugach for "Understanding William Howard Taft: The President Who Approved New Mexico's Statehood," part of the 2012 Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture Series. A free event in the John Gaw Meem Room; enter through the Washington Avenue doors.
Pugach is a professor emeritus of history at the University of New Mexico. He has taught on Jewish history, foreign relations, and American diplomacy.
Apr 18, 2012
Let’s Take A Look
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Curators Look at Your Treasures
During this time, curators from The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture and The Laboratory of Anthropology are in the lobby of MIAC to look at your treasures. These curators will attempt to identify and explain any artifact or historic object presented to them.
The event is always FREE and open to the public. Federal and State regulations prohibit the curators from appraising any artifact.
Apr 19, 2012
Bea Duran -
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
Friends of Indian Art Event
Not a Museum of New Mexico Foundation or Friends of Indian Art member? Please call (505) 982-6366, ext. 100 or click JOIN!
Apr 20, 2012
Avanyu Trail Day
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
In honor of Earth Day
Avanyu Trail Day: In honor of Earth Day. Walk our Avanyu Heritage Trail. Trail booklets available at the front desk for self-guided tours.
The Avanyu Heritage Trail is Museum Hill’s permanent outdoor exhibit about the Native people and the environment of the Southwest. Designed to acquaint visitors with some of the creative ways Native people adapted to and manipulated their environment, the quarter-mile long interpretive trail includes reconstructions of traditional gardens as well as examples of ancient architecture.
Apr 20, 2012
Taos and Santa Fe as Magnets for Writers
New Mexico Museum of Art
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
The Literary Arts in our Early Decades of Statehood
Join moderator John Andrews and guests Lois Rudnick and Barbara Harrelson to explore the vibrant literary history of post-statehood New Mexico.
Friday, April 20, 2012 in St. Francis Auditorium.
$15 at the door or in advance at the Lensic Box Office 988-1234.
Apr 21, 2012 - Apr 22, 2012
A Symposium on New Mexico WW2 Internment Camps
New Mexico History Museum
10:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Inside and Outside the Barbed Wire
Learn more about the experiences of Japanese people held in New Mexico's internment camps during World War II at an April 21 and 22 symposium. “From Inside and Outside the Barbed Wire: New Mexico’s Multicultural World War II Internment Stories,” will be in the History Museum auditorium, 10:30 am-4:30 pm on Saturday, April 21; and 1-4 pm on Sunday, April 22.
Tickets are $15 at the Lensic Theater Box Office, 505-988-1234, or www.ticketssantafe.org/tsf/content/about_tsf.
Apr 21, 2012
Earth Day Activities
Coronado Historic Site
8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
In honor of Earth Day, Coronado State Monument will conduct a general spring cleaning of the site. The focus will be on clearing away accumulations of tumbleweeds, dead brush and other plant debris. The debris removal and disposal will once again be sponsored by Waste Management Inc. of Albuquerque with a dumpster on site.
Monument Rangers will also conduct hands-on demonstrations of adobe plastering and adobe wall construction in partnership with the Town of Bernalillo’s Youth Conservation Corp (YCC) crew. The Friends of Coronado will sponsor storytelling and docent-led tours of the Painted Kiva and Bosque Trail. The public is invited to volunteer or just observe. All Earth Day activities are free. For info: 505-867-5351
Apr 27, 2012
Just Words Away: A National Poetry Month Event
New Mexico History Museum
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Santa Fe’s Poet Laureates and More
Apr 27, 2012 - Apr 28, 2012
Hopi Field Trip
Office of Archaeological Studies
Friends of Archaeology Event
Please join Friends of Archaeology on a discovery field trip regarding the Hopi. Information regarding signing up for this field trip will be mailed to Friends of Archaeology members only. Not a Museum of New Mexico Foundation member or Friends of Archaeology member? Please call (505) 982-6366, X100 or click JOIN!.
Apr 27, 2012
Gallery Conversation With Master Printers
New Mexico Museum of Art
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Curator of Contemporary Art Laura Addison welcomes three master printers, Jack Lemon and Steven Campbell (Landfall Press), and Bill Lagattuta (Tamarind Institute) in a conversation about their own histories, experiences and anecdotes about the printmaking process. In conjunction with the museum's current print exhibition Repeat After Me.
Free Friday Evening, April 27, 2012. 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Apr 28, 2012
University of New Mexico Architecture and Landscape Walking Tour
New Mexico History Museum
Palace Guard Event
Not a Museum of New Mexico Foundation or Palace Guard member? Please call (505) 982-6366, ext. 100 or click JOIN!
Apr 29, 2012
Photographers Panel Discussion
New Mexico History Museum
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
The Saint John’s Bible and Contemplative Landscape
Join moderator Mary Anne Redding, curator of Contemplative Landscape, at 2 pm on Sunday, April 29, for a discussion among some of the photographers represented in the exhibition about their long-term commitments to photographing places both special and sacred in New Mexico.
Kirk Gittings, Ed Ranney, Janet Russek, Sharon Stewart, and Don Usner—will show and discuss their photographs. This event, part of the programming series for Illuminating the Word: The Saint John’s Bible and Contemplative Landscape is in the History Museum Auditorium. Attendance is free with admission; Sundays are free to NM residents.
Together, the artists’ works represent faith traditions ranging from ancient Native American practices to Hispanic Catholic rituals to roadside evangelicalism to modern-day Buddhists, each of which has found a home in places like the Galisteo Basin, Chimayo, Black Mesa, San Ildefonso, Cabezon and Abiquiu.
Apr 29, 2012
Memorial Service for Robert A. Ewing
New Mexico Museum of Art
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Sunday, April 29, 2012
1:00pm St. Francis Auditorium, inside the NM Museum of Art
