New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science | Jun 15, 2017
Challah Rising in the Desert: The Jews of New Mexico will hold special sneak previews followed by Q & A’s with Director Isaac Artenstein and Producer Paula Amar Schwartz at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Saturday June 24th at 7PM and on June 25th at 2PM at the New Mexico History Museum at the Palace of Governors in Santa Fe. These special screenings will celebrate participants of this feature documentary and raise funds for the creation of an archive based on over 50 hours of recorded video to be housed with the New Mexico Jewish Historical Society.
New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs | Jun 14, 2017
This week the Department of Cultural Affairs released its Museum & Historic Site Summer Guide 2017 highlighting summer activities at New Mexico’s eight state-run museum’s and seven historic sites.
New Mexico Arts | Jun 13, 2017
Governor Susana Martinez and the New Mexico Arts Commission today announced seven artists and major contributors to the arts who will be recipients of the 2017 Annual Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts.
New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science | Jun 13, 2017
New Mexico’s most popular museum, the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science (NMMNHS) will be open on Tuesdays effective June 24, 2017. When this change takes effect, the Museum will be once again be open seven days a week from 9AM-5PM.
New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs | Jun 9, 2017
Wonders on Wheels (WOW), the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) mobile museum will visit the New Mexico State Capitol building next Tuesday, June 13 from 10AM-12PM. New Mexico Legislators, legislative and government staff, and the public are invited to explore DCA’s newest traveling, curriculum-based, museum education program and interact with enthusiastic educators onboard.
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture | Jun 8, 2017
Shoes do more than protect the feet. They also tell us something about human identity, lifeways, and love. The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture announced today that it will mount Stepping Out: 10,000 Years of Walking the West, an exhibit of sandals, beautifully decorated moccasins, and contemporary footwear from across the Western United States, Sunday, August 27, 2017—September 3, 2018.
Museum Hill Partners | Jun 2, 2017
Renown Mexican artist Frida Kahlo - her life, self-image, friends, and thoughts on feminism are the topics of a summer lecture series at the Udall Center on Museum Hill from June 10 through October 12. The lecture series coincides with Mirror, Mirror, Photographs of Frida Kahlo exhibition at the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art on Museum Hill.
New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science | Jun 1, 2017
Earth’s earliest primates dwelled in treetops, not on the ground, according to an analysis of a 62-million-year-old partial skeleton discovered in New Mexico — the oldest-known primate skeleton.
New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science | May 24, 2017
The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science (NMMNHS) welcomes Wild Music: Sounds & Songs of Life, a highly interactive new exhibition exploring evidence for the biological origins of music. Whales compose, bullfrogs chorus, songbirds greet the dawn, and people everywhere sing and dance. Through environmental soundscapes, exhibits, and listening experiences, visitors are invited to explore nature’s score and expand their understanding of what makes music. The exhibition opens on June 24, 2017 and runs through January 7, 2018
New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs | May 11, 2017
Renowned Mexican artist Frida Kahlo—her life, self-image, friends, and thoughts on feminism—are the topics of a summer lecture series at the Udall Center on Museum Hill from June 10 through September 16, 2017. The lecture series coincides with the Mirror, Mirror: Photographs of Frida Kahlo exhibition at the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art on Museum Hill.
New Mexico History Museum | May 2, 2017
In celebration of the landmark exhibition Voices of Counterculture in the Southwest, on display at the New Mexico History Museum from May 14, 2017 to February 11, 2018, the CCA Cinematheque presents an eight-month film series, exploring elements including the Summer of Love, Chicano resistance and avant-garde Southwest storytelling experiments.
New Mexico Museum of Art | May 1, 2017
New Mexico’s artistic past, present and future converge during 2017 as the New Mexico Museum of Art celebrates its 100-year anniversary. From September 18 to November 25, 2017 the New Mexico Museum of Art will be closed for restoration of floors and walls, installation of three new exhibitions, and re-imagining each Museum visit to enhance the visitors’ experience for generations to come.
New Mexico Museum of Art | May 1, 2017
Timeline of NM Museum of Art beginning in 1912 when NM achieved statehood, through its centennial year, 2017.
New Mexico Museum of Art | May 1, 2017
Built between April 1916 and November 1917, the Museum of Art is considered an adaption of traditional Hispanic and Pueblo Indian Architecture. The museum design incorporates elements from many historic buildings, most predominantly, the oldest surviving Mission church built in 1629 (pictured above), which still stands at Acoma Pueblo.
As the nation’s oldest capitol city founded in 1610, Santa Fe was already more than 300 years old when New Mexico became a state in 1912. By the early twentieth century, there was a growing concern about construction of new buildings with modern designs that did not fit in with Santa Fe’s predominant Southwestern adobe buildings. In the fall of 1912, concernedcitizens staged the New-Old Santa Fe exhibition at the Palace of the Governors featuring their vision of what Santa Fe architecture could be with images and models.
New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science | May 1, 2017
The New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs’ (DCA) mobile museum Wonders on Wheels (WoW) hits the road this summer, offering New Mexicans a unique opportunity to experience the state’s rich prehistoric past without traveling to a museum. The Mobile Museum will typically spend up to two weeks at a time in specific regions of the state.
Coronado Historic Site | Apr 25, 2017
New Mexicans have a rare opportunity to watch archaeologists on a live dig at the Coronado Historic Site off U.S. 550 in Bernalillo. The Dig Kuaua! hand-excavation of the Kuaua Pueblo will be performed by the Office of Archaeological Studies from May 15 through June 30, 2017. Members of the Friends of Coronado Historic Site group can even participate alongside the archaeologists.
New Mexico History Museum | Apr 25, 2017
The Innovate & Create Camp is an engaging two-week STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) experience hosted at the New Mexico History Museum and the Palace of the Governors for young women in grades 6-10. For two weeks this July (July 10-14, 2017 and July 24-28, 2017), participants will learn via guided maker activities that bridge technology, art, and history in fun an innovative ways.
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture | Apr 21, 2017
The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture’s (MIAC) Living Treasures: A Celebration of Vision exhibition opens in the Governor’s Gallery May 5th. Each year since 2006, MIAC honors an innovative Native American artist for the annual Native Treasures Exhibition.
New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science | Apr 19, 2017
The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science (NMMNHS) reveals the fascinating world of Owls in the Land of Enchantment from April 15 through September 25, 2017. Images featured in Owls in the Land of Enchantment were captured by local amateur photographer Dennis Dusenbery.
New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science | Apr 18, 2017
Sandia Mountain Natural History Center (SMNHC) celebrates its 50th anniversary on Thursday, April 27. The public is invited to the celebration to see students doing hands-on science such as tree identification bug catching and close habitat observation. A exhibit highlights the Natural History Center’s five decades, and includes an show of student artwork from APS Studets.“
Museum of International Folk Art | Apr 14, 2017
The Museum of International Folk Art (MoIFA) is pleased to bring legendary flamenco dancer Carmela Greco to Santa Fe for a week of Spanish dance arts and music inside the Museum from June 27 through July 2, 2017.
New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science | Apr 14, 2017
Explore the Wonderful World of Opals and other geological wonders at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science (NMMNHS) May 5th for a family-friendly First Friday evening. Offered four times per year, on the first Friday of select months, the entire museum opens in the evening at a reduced admission fee, and focuses on one current scientific topic with plenty of hands-on family activities. Admission is $5 per person. Events take place from 5:30pm-9:00pm.
Museum of New Mexico | Apr 12, 2017
Four Santa Fe cultural institutions will celebrate the Art of the Draw during the summer of 2017. The multi-venue, multi-event, world-class collaboration celebrates drawing as the fundamental starting point for creation in both the arts and sciences for representational painting, sculpting, engineering, design and architecture.
New Mexico State Library | Mar 30, 2017
The New Mexico State Library has announced the state level champions of the 2017 Letters About Literature competition. This annual writing contest for young readers in grades 4 through 12 is made possible by a generous grant from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation and is administered nationally by the Library of Congress Center for the Book.
Museum of New Mexico | Mar 28, 2017
A flashback to the social experimentation and activism that catalyzed the nation’s young people during the 1960s to today is captured in Be Here Now: Summer of Love Santa Fe, a multi-partner, multi-venue, multi-event collaboration coming to Santa Fe this Summer.
Museum of International Folk Art | Mar 17, 2017
The Museum of International Folk Art announced today it will host the national touring exhibition of Quilts of Southwest China beginning July 9, 2017 through January 21, 2018.
New Mexico Museum of Art | Mar 17, 2017
Cady Wells: Ruminations presents watercolor paintings from one of the Southwest’s most interesting modernists. The exhibition opens at the New Mexico Museum of Art on March 25 and is on view through September 17, 2017. A public reception will be held on April 7, 2017 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm.
New Mexico History Museum | Mar 10, 2017
The man known as the “the Godfather of Counterculture,” Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder ignites Santa Fe’s 50th anniversary celebration of the Summer of Love at the Lensic Performing Arts Center on Sunday, May 14, 2017 at 5pm, with “An evening with Gary Snyder, Hosted by Jack Loeffler.”
New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science | Mar 9, 2017
Registration is now open for Young Explorers Summer Camp, open to children from kindergarten through the eighth grade. Each Summer Camp session is one week long, with activities every weekday from 8:30am to 3:30pm. Each week is theme-based, with the first session beginning the week of June 12 and the last beginning the week of July 30.
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture | Feb 16, 2017
A selection of Silver Horn’s original drawings will be on view during the March 11, 2017 lecture featuring perspectives from noted Kiowa tribal historian and storyteller, Dorothy White Horse Delaune, and Dr. Candace Greene, a specialist in plains pictorial traditions. The lecture will take place from 10:00am to 12:00pm at the Kathryn O’Keeffe Theater at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture.
