Albuquerque Museum of Art & History Sculpture Garden Photo Gallery
Inside the Albuquerque Museum galleries you'll find an outstanding collection of primarily 20th century paintings by world-renowned artists with a New Mexico connection and the largest collection of Spanish colonial artifacts in the nation. But if you enjoy viewing art alfresco, then you'll want to spend time in the museum's outdoor gallery. Here you'll find one of the nation's outstanding sculpture gardens with nearly 50 contemporary works of art by . . . more
Inside Old Town Albuquerque
Old Town Albuquerque consists of about ten blocks of historic adobe buildings that have been renovated into more than 125 shops, galleries and restaurants. The area respects traditional Spanish patterns with a central plaza and church surrounded by homes and businesses. Most of the newer post-1800s buildings were remodeled to meet visitors’ expectations of southwestern architecture. Old Town retains much of its historic charm. . . . more
Underground in an Earthship
Every spring, environmental groups pull tons of trash from U. S. streams and rivers, including old tires, bottles and cans, which is then hauled away to the landfill. If Michael Reynolds, the principle biotect and creator of the Earthship Concept has his way, that trash will be in great demand as earthship building products. Or even better, it will never be tossed into our waterways in the first place. What is an earthship you ask? Until my recent visit to . . . more
Exploring the Turquoise Trail
In my recent drive southbound from the Santa Fe high country to the Albuquerque desert, I had the luxury of time so I decided to take the 52 mile Turquoise Trail. Today the trail is a paved two lane highway, but it follows the same dusty route used by Native Americans, Spanish and Confederate soldiers, miners, missionaries, and other early pioneers as they traveled between Santa Fe and Albuquerque. Rita Simmons, an award winning . . . more
Tinkertown Museum
My first view of the Tinkertown Museum should have prepared me for what I’d see inside. There was a rustic wood fence built from indigenous tree branches held together with bailing wire, a wall of bottles set in concrete, old wagon wheels standing casually on the ground and stacked haphazardly atop one another high above the museum’s roof, and a redheaded turkey buzzard perched on one of big wheels looking down menancingly . . . more
Old Coal Town Museum
The giant red chili peppers towering over the museum’s weather worn walls are a little misleading relative to the dusty treasures found in the Old Coal Mine Museum. As the name implies, the museum holds a collection of mining, railroad and non-mining relics that was used by the Albuquerque & Cerrillos Coal Company. The self-guided tour began with an Ediphone, a business dictation cylinder phonograph introduced by Thomas A. Edison in . . . more
American International Rattlesnake Museum
The American International Rattlesnake Museum boosts the world’s largest collection of living rattlesnake species – more than the San Diego Zoo, the Bronx Zoo, the Washington, DC National Zoo, the Philadelphia Zoo, the San Francisco Zoo, and the Denver Zoo, all combined. Included in the museum’s collection are both venomous and nonvenomous rattlesnake species as well as ground dwellers such as tarantulas and gila monsters. . . . more