Aaron B. Craycraft. The Palace of the Governors on Palace Avenue, ca. 1920. Palace of the Governors Photo Archives #016670
About the Museum
The Palace of the Governors was first used to exhibit the collections of the Historical Society of New Mexico in 1885. In 1909 the New Mexico Territorial Legislature authorized use of the Palace of the Governors for use by the Museum of New Mexico.
Over the next 100 years, the single museum developed into a system of state-run museums and agencies, and with the addition of the Domenici Building in 2009, the Palace became a part of the new New Mexico History Museum.
The footprint of what we now know as the New Mexico History Museum has a campus of three interlocking buildings.
Operating as part of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, the New Mexico History Museum is now part of the largest state-sponsored museum system in the United States.
Palace of the Governors. Photo by T. Harmon Parkhurst
Our Campus
From the 1610 Palace of the Governors to the 1907 Chávez Library and the 2009 Domenici Building, the museum's campus spans four centuries of architecture, all in service of sharing New Mexico's history.
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