New Mexico Art Museum and Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

New Mexico Art Museum has a collection of contemporary regional art housed in an adobe building.  The Museum of Contemporary Native Arts museum do exhibits, collects, and interprets the most progressive work of contemporary Native artists

New Mexico Art Museum: 107 W Palace Ave, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Museum of Contemporary Native Arts: 108 Cathedral Pl, Santa Fe, New Mexico

When the New Mexico Museum of Art opened in 1917 it was the first building in the state dedicated to art. Its galleries, reception areas and St. Francis auditorium were made by the people of New Mexico for the promotion of the state’s rich culture to visitors and locals alike.

Winter Ceremony Deer Dance

The architects Isaac Hamilton and William Morris Rapp designed the building as an enlarged and modified version of the building they made for the 1915 Panama-California Exposition in San Diego. The style of the building, called Pueblo Revival, uses modern construction materials made to look like the historic adobe churches found throughout the state’s Pueblos.

The Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, a center of the Institute of American Indian Arts, is dedicated to increasing public understanding and appreciation of/for contemporary Native art, history and culture through presentation, collection/acquisition, preservation, and interpretation.