Visit us for FREE Admission as we celebrate Art and History every first Friday evening of every month! For this month, the History Museum invites you to enjoy our newest exhibition, EnchantOrama! New Mexico Magazine Celebrates 100, which explores how the publication began and its impact on the State over the years. Join Education staff for a hands-on activity to design your own custom magazine layout with photos cut from duplicate NM Magazines to create a keepsake of your experience at the museum. Learn why and how the publication began, view a selection ...

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The Friends of History are happy to offer an ENCORE presentation of Dr. Megan Kate Nelson’s lecture, The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West.  We think you will enjoy seeing selected encore presentations occasionally as a complement to our original online talks -- either for the first time or as a return to a topic of particular interest.  Enjoy!! Please join Megan Kate Nelson, Ph.D, historian and writer, as she shares her insights on the Civil War as it relates to New Mexico ...

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Please join us for Late Night Friday as we offer the public the opportunity to extend their visit at the museum and explore our amazing collections, and learn more about the historic people, places, and events, that over time touched New Mexico.

Tonight’s visit is FREE TO NEW MEXICO RESIDENTS

Photo credit: State capitol rotunda, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Date: 1970

Photographer: Robert H. Martin, Negative number: 068301

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Please join us for Late Night Friday as we offer the public the opportunity to extend their visit at the museum and explore our amazing collections, and learn more about the historic people, places, and events, that over time touched New Mexico.

Tonight’s visit is FREE TO NEW MEXICO RESIDENTS

Photo credit: Cassell Motor Co., Lincoln Avenue at Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Photographer: T. Harmon Parkhurst, Date: ca. 1929

Negative Number: 050939

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Please join us for Late Night Friday as we offer the public the opportunity to extend their visit at the museum and explore our amazing collections, and learn more about the historic people, places, and events, that over time touched New Mexico.

Tonight’s visit is FREE TO NEW MEXICO RESIDENTS

Photo credit: Lensic Theater, San Francisco Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1935.

Photographer: T. Harmon Parkhurst Negative number: 051556

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Please join us for Late Night Friday as we offer the public the opportunity to extend their visit at the museum and explore our amazing collections, and learn more about the historic people, places, and events, that over time touched New Mexico.

Tonight’s visit is FREE TO NEW MEXICO RESIDENTS

Photo credit: Mission church at McCartys, Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico

Photographer: John Candelario, Date: 1940 - 1950?

Negative Number: 165882

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