5 Treasures in New Mexico’s Museums
Indian Detours bus at Santa Clara Pueblo, circa 1926. (Above) One hundred years after the start of the Harvey Indian Detours, which changed Southwest tourism, a staged image of a Packard passenger…
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Tag: New Mexico Museums
8 Only-in-New-Mexico Museums
SMOKEY BEAR HISTORICAL PARK Capitán In the mountain village where a rescued cub became a national icon, this small but poignant museum traces Smokey Bear’s journey from the 1950 Capitán Gap Fire to…
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Explore New Mexico’s Farm & Ranch Museum
ON A CLOUDLESS MAY morning, girls in sparkly white dresses and boys in tidy polos mill about. The crowd of more than 250 goes silent as Bishop Peter Baldacchino strides to the front of the New Mexico…
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Editor’s Letter: Display Case
“THAT’S ENORMOUS,” a young girl in a flowered dress exclaims while checking out the shell of Hesperotestudo, a giant land tortoise, on display at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science…
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Inside New Mexico’s Small-Town Museums
“YOU GO TO A MUSEUM to learn the heart of a town,” says Britney Swart, executive director of the Herzstein Memorial Museum in Clayton. I’m only a few steps inside, though, when she intuits a darker…
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New Mexico Museums Mark 250
AS THE UNITED STATES celebrates its 250th birthday, New Mexico’s Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) has curated special exhibitions at its museums and historic sites in honor of the…
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