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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
217 Johnson Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico
John and Anne Marion and the Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation opened the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum on July 17, 1997 in Santa Fe -- 80 years after Georgia O'Keeffe first visited New Mexico. While the museum is private, it is promoted through the Museums of New Mexico and shares its library and educational staff.
At age 62, Georgia O'Keeffe left New York City and moved permanently to Abiquiu, New Mexico. Three years before her death in 1986 -- months short of age 100 -- she moved to Santa Fe.
Institute of American Indian Arts Museum
108 Cathedral Pl.
Santa Fe, NM
The IAIA Museum, curated by American Indians, shows Indian art through Indian eyes.
One of the highlights of the Museum's collection is the National Collection of Contemporary Indian Art. This collection is the single largest contemporary collection of its kind, representing a hundred tribal nations in the United States.
Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
704 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, New Mexico
The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian is privately owned, and is located next to the Museum of International Folk Art. Its exhibits change about every four months.
Among the displays are pottery, jewelry, rugs, baskets, and sand paintings. The octagonal museum is constructed in the form of a Navajo hogan, with its door facing east to greet the sun.
It was founded in 1937 by Mary Cabot Wheelwright and Navajo shaman Hastiin Klah to help preserve Navajo spiritual beliefs.
Museum of New Mexico
Four locations in Santa Fe Ph:505-827-6451
Older than the state of New Mexico itself, the Museum of New Mexico houses the country's most intriguing collection of art, history and culture in four museums and five monuments statewide. Come discover the true heart and soul of the Southwest.
Museum of New Mexico Shops
At all Santa Fe Museums Ph:505-982-3016
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
710 Camino Lejo Ph:505-476-1250
The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture in Santa Fe, New Mexico, tells the stories of the Native American people of the Southwest from pre-historic through contemporary times. Its changing exhibitions draw from an unparalleled collection of Native American art and material culture representing the Pueblo, Navajo, Apache, and other indigenous cultures of the Southwest.
Museum of International Folk Art
706 Camino Lejo Ph:505-476-1200
Set in the foothills of northern New Mexico's spectacular Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) attracts students, scholars, and museum visitors alike, not only from the United States but from many countries abroad. Children and "grown-ups" alike share the wonders of discovery in the Museum of International Folk Art.
Palace of the Governors
105 West Palace
Santa Fe, NM 87501
Phone: 505-988-3454
Toll Free: 800-217-7522
Sat-Thur 9:30-5, Fri 9:30-7:45
Originally constructed in the early 17th century as Spain's seat of government for what is today the American Southwest, the Palace of the Governors chronicles the history of Santa Fe, as well as New Mexico and the region. This adobe structure, now the state's history museum, was designated a Registered National Historic Landmark in 1960 and an American Treasure in 1999.
Museum of Fine Arts
107 West Palace
Santa Fe, NM 87501
Phone: 505-982-1131
Sat-Thur 9:30-5, Fri 9:30-7:45
The Museum of Fine Arts was founded in 1917 as the Art Gallery of the Museum of New Mexico. Housed in a spectacular Pueblo Revival building designed by I. H. and William M. Rapp, it was based on their New Mexico building
The building combines aspects of several Southwestern regional styles including elements of the facades of the Spanish mission churches of Acoma, Laguna and San Felipe Pueblos.
For more than eighty-five years the Museum has collected and exhibited work by artists from New Mexico and elsewhere.
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