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The New Mexico History Museum is changing the way New Mexicans and visitors from across the country and around the world understand our state's pivotal role in the shaping of the American West.

Current & Upcoming Exhibitions

• Segesser Hide Paintings
  On long-term display
• Treasures of Devotion/Tesoros de Devoción
  On long-term display
• Telling New Mexico: Stories from Then and Now
  On long-term display
• Santa Fe Found: Fragments of Time
  On long-term display
• Tall Tales of the Wild West: The Stories of Karl May
  Nov 18, 2012 through Feb 9, 2014
• Cowboys Real and Imagined
  Apr 14, 2013 through Mar 16, 2014

Recent Press Releases

• The Alzheimer’s Poetry Project Meets Cowboys Real and Imagined
  May 14, 2013
• Cowboy Movie Night Starring Ol’ Max Evans
  May 6, 2013
• History Museum Guides Start New Season of Downtown Walking Tours on April 22
  Apr 16, 2013
• Yee-Haw: Cowboys Real and Imagined Gallops to an April 14 Opening
  Apr 14, 2013
• Saddle Up: Opening Events for Cowboys Real and Imagined
  Apr 9, 2013
• The New Mexico History Museum Times, April-May 2013 edition
  Apr 3, 2013
• Don Edwards, "America’s Cowboy Balladeer," Comes to the History Museum
  Mar 10, 2013
• Women’s History Month Lectures
  Mar 8, 2013
• The Museum Times, February-March 2013 ed.
  Feb 1, 2013
• A Celebration of Print
  Jan 9, 2013
• The Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture Series, 2013, Part 1
  Jan 1, 2013
• Marking Time: A Calendar-Making Workshop
  Dec 13, 2012
• Christmas at the Palace is saved! (The floors are finished)
  Nov 20, 2012
• Keep Calm and Merry On
  Nov 13, 2012
• Tall Tales of the Wild West: The Stories of Karl May
  Sep 5, 2012
• 7th Annual Palace Gem & Mineral Show
  Aug 21, 2012
• State Historian to Deliver the Santa Fe Fiesta Lecture
  Aug 20, 2012
• Pinhole Photography Collection Joins the New Mexico History Museum
  Jun 12, 2012
• "Native American Portraits" Opening Reception
  May 15, 2012
• The Segesser Hide Paintings: Examine an 18th-century artifact with 21st-century tools
  Apr 24, 2012
• The Saint John’s Bible and Contemplative Landscape
  Apr 5, 2012
• Learn Santa Fe History on Foot: Downtown Walking Tours Resume in April
  Mar 20, 2012
• New exhibit explores changing views of Native peoples through photography
  Mar 12, 2012
• Good News: St. John’s Bible Earns an Extended Engagement
  Feb 22, 2012
• The Statehood History Conference
  Feb 21, 2012
• Encore: Schola Cantorum and the Monks of Christ in the Desert Monastery
  Feb 13, 2012
• History Museum to Return Peruvian Artifact
  Dec 7, 2011
• Holidays at the Palace
  Nov 28, 2011
• Thanksgiving weekend schedule for state museums in Santa Fe
  Nov 17, 2011
• Calligraphers Offer Free Demonstrations and Hands-On Tips
  Nov 10, 2011
• Palace of the Governors Photo Archives Wins Hewett Award
  Oct 31, 2011
• World-Renowned Calligrapher Donald Jackson Coming to Santa Fe
  Oct 14, 2011
• 2012 Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture Series Tackles the Centennial
  Oct 11, 2011
• History Museum celebrates the Centennial with 47 Stars exhibit
  Oct 11, 2011
• 2011 Season of Downtown Walking Tours on Santa Fe History Comes to a Close Oct. 15
  Oct 6, 2011
• Fiesta weekend: Free admission to the downtown museums
  Sep 1, 2011
• Deepen your knowledge of NM history in a course for museum guides
  Aug 29, 2011
• Free admission on Indian Market weekend for History Museum, Museum of Art
  Aug 19, 2011
• Collections of Photographer Donald Woodman Accepted into the Palace Photo Archives
  Jul 25, 2011
• Women Planting Seeds: Home, Healing and Horticulture
  Jul 18, 2011
• History Museum’s Cafe Re-opens
  Jul 18, 2011
• History Museum Wins National Award
  Jun 23, 2011
• Symposium Explores the African American Experience in Northern New Mexico
  Jun 1, 2011
• Heads Up, Rock Hounds: Palace Gem & Mineral Show Returns
  May 20, 2011
• Catch the closing lectures of
  Apr 27, 2011
• David Lance Goines: A Master of the Artful Poster Speaks
  Apr 6, 2011
• Downtown Historic Walking Tours Resume April 18
  Apr 5, 2011
• History Museum’s Cowden Cafe to (Temporarily) Close
  Mar 28, 2011
• New Mexico’s African American Legacy: Visible, Vital, Valuable
  Mar 23, 2011
• History’s Other Half: Celebrating Women of the West
  Mar 21, 2011
• Tweet This: History Museum and Audubon Center host wild-bird event
  Mar 14, 2011
• Wild at Heart Exhibit Celebrates Ernest Thompson Seton and Connects People with Nature
  Mar 14, 2011
• History in the Watching
  Mar 9, 2011
• The Al-Mutanabbi Street Project: Honoring the soul of Baghdad’s literary community
  Feb 24, 2011
• A Mary Jane Colter Weekend: The Shaping of Southwest Style
  Jan 7, 2011
• A Noble Legacy: The USS New Mexico
  Jan 6, 2011
• A Passionate Light: Polaroids by H. Joe Waldrum
  Jan 6, 2011
• Wild at Heart: Ernest Thompson Seton
  Jan 1, 2011
• Speakers for the 2011 Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture Series Announced
  Dec 29, 2010
• The Palace Press Brings a Bobcat Home
  Nov 12, 2010
• Holiday Traditions Begin at the Palace
  Nov 10, 2010
• Imagining Mexico explores the Mexican Conquest, from Aztecs to New Spain
  Sep 8, 2010
• CANCELED: Chow Down at the Cowden Cafe
  Sep 1, 2010
• Exhibit of Rare Spanish Documents Makes its U.S. Debut
  Aug 31, 2010
• The History Museum Turns 1: Start the Party
  May 13, 2010
• Plaza Restaurant to Operate New "Cowden Cafe" at History Museum
  Apr 29, 2010
• Downtown Santa Fe Walking Tours Set to Resume
  Apr 6, 2010
• New Mexico History Museum to Receive Hewett Award
  Nov 20, 2009
• Exhibit opening: Santa Fe Found: Fragments of Time
  Nov 20, 2009
• Spanish Crown Prince Tours NM History Museum,
  Nov 20, 2009
• Announcing the Telling New Mexico Inaugural Lecture Series
  Nov 20, 2009
• The Jewish-Converso Roots of Don Juan de Oñate
  Nov 20, 2009
• Ilan Stavans Shakes Things Up
  Nov 20, 2009
• Preserving Your Family’s Heirloom Textiles
  Nov 20, 2009
• Museum group honors History Museum
  Sep 25, 2009
• The Gambling Queen of Santa Fe
  Aug 20, 2009
• The Long Walk of the Navajo and Mescalaro Indians and its Enduring Mark on Western History
  Jun 11, 2009
• Another free weekend, a booksigning, and a Top 5 Listing
  May 28, 2009
• It’s History in the Making as the Nation’s Newest Museum Opens its Doors:
  May 26, 2009
• Spiritual Blessings and Pilgrimage Kick Off Museum’s Second Day of Grand Opening Events
  May 26, 2009
• Historic scissors to cut the ribbon at NMHM
  May 22, 2009
• The Art of the Exhibit: It Took a Village to Build These Stories
  May 21, 2009
• High-Tech Techniques Bring New Mexico’s Past to Life
  May 15, 2009
• New Mexico History Museum takes another step to completion
  May 14, 2009
• Riding the Rails... in Style
  May 12, 2009
• Duty, Honor, Sacrifice: New Mexico Veterans answered the Nation’s call
  May 7, 2009
• Join the Stampede! New Mexico History Museum’s Grand Opening events promise two days of family fun!!
  May 5, 2009
• Four Centuries of History: the Fiestas de Santa Fe
  Apr 28, 2009
• Where ancient artifacts meet cutting-edge art
  Apr 24, 2009
• Fashioning New Mexico
  Apr 22, 2009
• The Tiffany Ties that Bind
  Apr 16, 2009
• The Railroad Wars
  Apr 13, 2009
• The Tales that Made the American West
  Apr 7, 2009
• The New Face of History
  Apr 7, 2009
• Barrier around new museum set for removal
  Feb 24, 2009
• Through the Lens: Creating Santa Fe – Events and Lecture Schedule
  Dec 4, 2008
• 150/100! The Historical Society and the Museum of New Mexico to offer free Symposium
  Nov 10, 2008
• Department of Transportation puts wheels under New Mexico History Museum
  Nov 6, 2008
• New Mexico History Museum: Grand Opening, May 24, 2009
  Sep 17, 2008
• Holiday at the Palace of the Governors
  Sep 12, 2008
• Through the Lens: Creating Santa Fe
  Apr 24, 2008
• Treasures of Devotion/Tesoros de Devoción
  Apr 15, 2008
• Old Spanish Trail
  Mar 17, 2008