Programs & Events

May Events

Wed May 3, 2023
12:00 - 1:00 pm

Friends of History Wednesday Lecture Series: Encore Presentation

Hoofbeats Through History: The Story of the Horse in New Mexico

Please join us for an ONLINE encore presentation of Ms. Cynthia Culbertson’s lecture, The Story of the Horse in New Mexico, first presented on April 7, 2021. This presentation is the first of occasional encore productions the Friends of History are offering online in the months ahead. These encore talks will complement original online talks during this period.  We hope you will enjoy seeing these selected presentations which have been offered since May 2020--either for the first time or as a return to a topic of particular interest to you.   Enjoy!! ...

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Fri May 5, 2023
5:00 - 7:00 pm

Palace Avenue First Friday Art Walk

The Santos of New Mexico

Please join us with FREE Admission to all as we celebrate Art and History every first Friday evening of every month with some of our additional museum and gallery friends located along Palace Avenue in the heart of the historic Santa Fe Plaza. Each month we will highlight something new and wonderful to share. Together, we hope to educate, inspire, and encourage a love and appreciation of history and the diversity of art that the city different is so well known for. For this month, the History Museum invites you to enjoy The Santos of New Mexico; a collection of sixty ...

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Sat May 6, 2023
2:00 - 4:00 pm

Indian Market Lecture Series-Free with Admission

The Photography of Cara Romero

Please join Cara Romero (Chemehuevi), international award-winning fine art photographer in our auditorium, as she shares her proficiency as an artist and explores how her photographs convey collective Native histories, and the ways in which indigeneity expresses itself in modern times, along with her involvement as an artist and her own experiences in the annual Santa Fe’s Indian Market. Free with admission.

Photo courtesy of Cara Romero

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Sun May 7, 2023
1:00 - 4:00 pm

Pull a Print at the Palace Press

Free Admission to NM Residents-All others Free WITH Admission

Stop by the New Mexico History Museum for an engaging and interactive activity at the Palace Press, located within our historic courtyard.

Visitors will have the opportunity to learn about the historic press and experience hands-on printmaking and "pulling" their own custom print to take home. 

(The Press at the Palace of the Governors, known informally as the Palace Press, introduces visitors to the world of nineteenth-and early twentieth-century publishing.)

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Fri May 12, 2023
5:00 - 7:00 pm

Late Night Friday

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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Fri May 19, 2023
5:00 - 7:00 pm

Late Night Friday

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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Fri May 26, 2023
5:00 - 7:00 pm

Late Night Friday

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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