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The first museum I visited when I traveled to Santa Fe, New Mexico was the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. One of the most significant artists of the 20th century, Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) was devoted to creating imagery that expressed what she called “the wideness and wonder of the world as I…
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If you don’t have time to travel to Albuquerque, New Mexico to see the stone arts, there is a much smaller area in the middle of the State where you see some petroglyphs. Visit the Three Rivers Petroglyph Site. The site is located 17 miles north of Tularosa, NM, and…
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The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico is the only museum in the world dedicated solely to advancing the understanding of the contemporary Native arts. The look of the museum from the outside is appealing, with all those multi-colored columns that line the sidewalk. Even…
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There are very limited free parking spaces when you travel and visit the downtown plaza of Santa Fe, New Mexico. If you go later during the day, chances are, you won’t find a place to park for free. But don’t worry, there are a number of city parking facilities around…
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Small garden, not so many variety of plants, and for a $7 admission fee, it is not worth seeing. I visited the Santa Fe Botanical Garden at the Museum Hill as it was just right across the Museum of International Folk Art. The entrance to the garden was a little…
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It is the merging of the old and the new! The New Mexico History Museum and the Palace of the Governors in downtown Santa Fe are now connected. The Palace of the Governors is one of the oldest occupied government buildings in the U.S. and has witnessed four centuries of…
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Experience the art of the Southwest and beyond in the picturesque icon of Spanish Pueblo Revival architecture at the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe. The museum is an essential stop for anyone who wishes to appreciate not only the graceful simplicity of pueblo architecture, inspired by 300-year-old…
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The Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico has been regularly voted as Santa Fe’s “Favorite Museum” since it houses the largest collection of traditional folk art in the world. About 135,000 artifacts are displayed in the museums four building wings. The curators of the museum traveled…
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