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NEW MEXICO
MUSEUMS and HISTORY

Fort Selden

The Fort Selden Visitor's Center displays exhibits
depicting life at the fort -- nineteenth-century
military weapons, uniforms, archaeological
artifacts, and rare photographs of the U.S. Army
in the West.


New Mexico's Cultural Treasures
Here you will find a comprehensive database of
New Mexico's Museums, Parks, and Monuments.
Photos, major collections and up-to-date
calendars are all available here.


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ALAMOGORDO
MUSEUMS and HISTORY

New Mexico Museum of Space History

New Mexico Museum of Space History
is located in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
It is a complex consisting of the space
museum, Planetarium, IMAX® dome theater,
Hubbard Space Science Education Facility
and the International Space Hall of Fame.


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ALBUQURQUE
MUSEUMS and HISTORY

Albuquerque Aquarium
The Albuquerque Aquarium exhibits Gulf of Mexico
saltwater species from a variety of habitats,
including estuarine, surf zone, shallow waters,
coral reefs, open ocean and deep ocean. A
285,000-gallon ocean tank contains brown,
sandtiger, blacktip and nurse sharks swimming
alongside brilliantly colored reef fish, eels,
sea turtles and open ocean species..


Albuquerque Museum

Explora
Explora offers 50,000 square feet of ideas you can
touch, where visitors are encouraged to keep their
hands ON the 250 exhibits throughout its facility.
Visitors discover a new way of looking at the
performing arts in the Explora Theater. The store
at Explora provides a quality shopping experience
with educational books, hands-on science kits and
challenging puzzles for all ages. Our five
classrooms host on-going educational programs,
birthday parties and seasonal camp classes, and
there are numerous opportunities for community
rentals throughout the museum.


Indian Pueblo Cultural Center
Dedicated to the preservation and perpetuation of
Pueblo Indian Culture, History and Art. The
Indian Pueblo Cultural Center is your Gateway to
the 19 Pueblos of New Mexico. Committed to
educating all generations of visitors.


Maxwell Museum of Anthopology
One of the nation’s finest anthropology museums,
the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology offers exhibits
and programs relating to cultures around the
world, with a special emphasis on the cultural
heritage of the Southwest.


Museum of Southwestern Biology
The Museum of Southwestern Biology (MSB) is a
research and teaching facility in the Department
of Biology, housing collections of vertebrates,
arthropods, and plants from the American
Southwest, Central and South America, and from
throughout the world. The MSB maintains seven
divisions in addition to the USGS-Biological
Survey Collection.


National Atomic Museum
Visitors can explore how nuclear science continues
to influence our world. The museum strives to
present through permanent and changing exhibits
and displays the diverse applications of nuclear
energy and its pioneers.


National Hispanic Cultural Center

In keeping with New Mexico’s rich Hispanic
heritage, the Department of Cultural Affairs and
its Hispanic Cultural Division are developing a
world-class facility in Albuquerque’s South
Valley to preserve, interpret, and showcase
Hispanic arts and lifeways.


New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
The curators at the New Mexico Museum of Natural
History and Science direct scientific research
and collection activities for the Museum. In
recent years, all of our curators have conducted
field research in the US-Mexico borderlands in
cooperation with several Mexican universities and
scientific agencies.


Rio Grande Botanic Garden
Located across the plaza from the Albuquerque
Aquarium and bordered on the west by the famed
Rio Grande and the largest cottonwood gallery
forest in the world, the lush and peaceful Rio
Grande Botanic Garden represents an oasis in the
desert. The Garden currently encompasses 20
developed acres, including a 10,000 square foot
glass conservatory housing native and exotic
plants from desert and Mediterranean climate zones
and a seasonal butterfly conservatory featuring
hundreds of free-flying North American
butterflies and moths.


Rio Grande Zoo
Founded in 1927, the 64-acre Rio Grande Zoo offers
visitors a pleasant stroll highlighted by close
encounters with more than 250 species of exotic
and native animals. Popular species include seals
and sea lions, gorillas, orangutans, elephants,
polar bears, giraffes, camels, tamarins, koalas,
Mexican wolves, mountain lions, monkeys, jaguars,
zebras and rhinoceros. State-of-the-art exhibit
design and eye-pleasing landscaping enhance zoo
animal husbandry by creating naturalistic habitats
complete with trees, grasses, water features
and rockwork.


University of New Mexico Art Museum

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FARMINGTON
MUSEUMS and HISTORY

Farmington Museum

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GHOST TOWNS
MUSEUMS and HISTORY

GhostTowns.com - New Mexico

Ghost Towns - Viva New Mexico

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LAS CRUCES
MUSEUMS and HISTORY

New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum
The New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum is
47 acres packed with real stories about real
people.


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LOS ALAMOS
MUSEUMS and HISTORY

Bradbury Museum
Over 40 high-tech interactive exhibits within five
galleries explain the Laboratory's defense, technology,
and basic research projects, as well as the history of
the Manhattan Project. Many of the exhibits incorporate
hands-on activities such as computer programs, learning
activities, and videos. A 20-minute film on the history
of the race to build the atomic bomb at Los Alamos is
shown throughout the day. Museum guides are always on
hand to answer questions.


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MOGOLLON
MUSEUMS and HISTORY

Imperial Russian Museum of North America

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ROSWELL
MUSEUMS and HISTORY

Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art
Donald Anderson has assembled a collection of
over 300 works of art produced by the talented
individuals that have participated in the Roswell
Artist-in-Residence Program. Housed in over
10,000 square feet of exhibition space, this
permanent and growing collection represents one
of the most significant gathering of
contemporary art in the region.


The International UFO Museum
and Research Center at Roswell

The International UFO Museum and Research Center
at Roswell, New Mexico was organized to inform the
public about what has come to be known as "The
Roswell Incident." The Museum is a non-profit 501
(c)(3) corporation located in Roswell, New Mexico
dedicated to the collection and preservation of
materials and information in written, audio and
visual formats that are relevant to the 1947
Roswell Incident and other unexplained phenomena
related to UFO research. The Museum endeavors to
be the leading information source in history,
science and research about UFO events worldwide.
The International UFO Museum's constituents are
committed to gathering and disbursing to all
interested parties, the most qualified and accurate
up-to-date information available.


Roswell Museum and Art Center
A visit to the Roswell Museum and Art Center
is food for the soul and fire for the imagination.
One of the Southwest's great museums, we offer an
impressive collection of fine art, history, and
space science technology; we also house one of
the two largest planetariums in New Mexico
named for rocketry pioneer Robert H. Goddard.


Roswell UFO Crash

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RUIDOSO
MUSEUMS and HISTORY

Fort Stanton

The Hubbard Museum of the American West

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SANTA FE
MUSEUMS and HISTORY

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
The Museum offers many educational opportunities
for children, families, adults, students, and
educators. Outreach programs include the
nationally recognized O'Keeffe Art and Leadership
Program for Girls and statewide community events
in collaboration with local partners. The Museum's
Public Lecture Series brings renowned scholars
from around the world to Santa Fe to speak on
various aspects of American Modernism.


El Rancho de las Golondrinas
El Rancho de las Golondrinas is a living history
museum located on 200 acres in a rural farming
valley just south of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The
museum, dedicated to the heritage and culture of
Spanish Colonial New Mexico, opened in 1972.
Original colonial buildings on the site date from
the early 18th century. In addition, historic
buildings from other parts of northern New Mexico
have been reconstructed at Las Golondrinas.
Villagers clothed in the styles of the times show
how life was lived in early New Mexico. Special
festivals and theme weekends offer visitors an
in-depth look into the celebrations, music,
dance and many other aspects of life in the period
when this part of the United States was ruled by
Spain and Mexico.


Loretto Chapel

Museum of International Folk Art
The Museum of International Folk Art collects,
preserves, interprets, and presents material
folk culture from all parts of the globe.
Additionally, it seeks to promote and broaden
the study of other expressive aspects of folk
culture, including folk music, drama, dance,
and verbal arts. While the traditional arts
necessarily provide the focus for the museum's
activities, the museum shall also act as an
advocate for the preservation of folklife,
especially the survival and transmission of
folk arts.


Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, one of four
museums in the Museum of New Mexico
system, is a premier repository of Native art and
material culture and tells the stories of the
people of the Southwest from pre-history
through contemporary art. The museum serves a
diverse, multicultural audience through changing
exhibitions, public lectures, field trips, artist
residencies, and other educational programs.


Museum of New Mexico
Older than the state of New Mexico itself,
the Museum of New Mexico houses the country's
most intriguing collection of art, history
and culture in four museums and five monuments
statewide. Come discover the true heart and
soul of the Southwest.


Museum of New Mexico Foundation
In a unique partnership with the state of
New Mexico, the Museum of New Mexico Foundation
helps to preserve the cultural treasures at the
four museums (Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of
Indian Arts & Culture/ Laboratory of Anthropology,
Museum of International Folk Art, and the Palace
of the Governors) and five state monuments
(Coronado, Fort Selden, Fort Sumner, Jémez, and
Lincoln) that are part of the
Museum of New Mexico.


Museum of New Mexico Foundation Shops
The Museum Shops support the educational
experience of museum visitors by featuring
handmade art and crafts from New Mexican artists
and artisans as well as other items that reflect
each museum's permanent collection. Proceeds from
sales in the Foundation Shops provide important
revenues for acquisitions, exhibitions and other
programs at each museum.


Palace of the Governors
Originally constructed in the early 17th century
as Spain's seat of government for what is today
the American Southwest, the Palace of the
Governors chronicles the history of Santa Fe, as
well as New Mexico and the region. This adobe
structure, now the state's history museum, was
designated a Registered National Historic Landmark
in 1960 and an American Treasure in 1999.


Santa Fe Southern Railway

Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian

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TAOS
MUSEUMS and HISTORY

Harwood Museum of Art
In the early part of the 20th Century, many
artists were drawn to the Taos area to pursue a
new, truly American art devoid of industrial
influence, inspired instead by New Mexico's
landscape and light and the traditional Native
American and Hispanic cultures of the region.


Kit Carson Home and Museum


La Hacienda De Los Martinez
La Hacienda de los Martinez is one of the few
northern New Mexico style, late Spanish Colonial
period "Great Houses" remaining in the
American Southwest.


Millicent Rogers Museum
At the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos,
New Mexico, visitors enjoy outstanding historical
collections of Native American jewelry, cermaics,
paintings, and weavings; Hispanic textiles,
metalwork, sculpture; and a wide range of
contemporary Southwestern art.


Museum Association of Taos
The Museum Association of Taos was formed to
enhance the educational missions of seven Taos
museums through shared resources, facilities and
staff expertise, focusing on community and
cultural awareness of visitors through programs
and publications.


Southwest Research Center of
Northern New Mexico

The Southwest Research Center of Northern
New Mexico opened its doors April 9, 1999, as
the combined collections of Taos Historic
Museums, Millicent Rogers Museum, and the
Harwood Museum of Art.


Taos Art Museum
Located in the historic home of Russian born
artist Nicolai Fechin, the Taos Art Museum's
permanent collection includes over 300 works of
art by more that 50 Taos artists.


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