Santa Fe, New Mexico
The New Mexico History Museum
The New Mexico History Museum
The New Mexico History Museum is a real part of the story—a witness to history. The museum is an extension of the Palace of the Governors on the Santa Fe Plaza—the Nation’s oldest continuously occupied government building. The exhibit galleries take the visitor on a journey that spans four centuries. Within each gallery, the displays showcase a nuanced picture, incorporating varied voices and highlighting the connective threads of place, culture and identity.
This first area, "This is What I was Told" tells the story of the first inhabitants of New Mexico. Stories are mostly collected and passed down from personal voices of different generations, enhanced with old treasures and artifacts from the past.
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These three photos below take the visitors through the Snata Fe Trail, Linking Nations – arrival of the Spanish and the stories of Trappers and Mountain Men
The next exhibit takes you to "The Indian Policy – The Other Civil War", the Resistance and the Long Walk". All these lead to the "New" New Mexico, changing the landscape forever.
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"The Coming of the Railroad" changed the scene of New Mexico, setting a new stage.
World War II and how New Mexico's own heroes
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Los Alamos is home to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which was founded to undertake the Manhattan Project. This white-on-white exhibit area is dedicated to the secrecy of the Manhattan Project and those who worked on the project – their professional lives hidden even from their families.
