LETTER TO MEMBERS

A Year to Remember. This best sums up 2022 for the Museum of New Mexico Foundation and Museum of New Mexico system.

The Foundation celebrates our 60th anniversary year in 2022 along with three major grand openings. An array of new exhibitions will also debut at our four state museums in Santa Fe this spring and summer. They will be complemented by public education programs and events designed to enlighten visitors of all ages.

The first grand opening takes place in May at Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner Historic Site. Their new permanent exhibition, Bosque Redondo: A Place of Suffering, A Place of Survival, tells of the tragic internment of Diné (Navajo) and N’de (Mescalero Apache) tribal members from 1863 to 1868.

June marks the grand reopening of Here, Now and Always, the newly renovated permanent exhibition at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. This groundbreaking exhibition first opened in 1997 and became a national model for Indigenous communities telling their own stories about Native art, culture and lifeways in a museum setting.

Finally, August brings the grand opening of the Vladem Contemporary in Santa Fe’s Railyard Arts District. This major expansion of the New Mexico Museum of Art ushers in a new era for contemporary art in our state with outstanding exhibitions, new opportunities to expand the museum’s permanent collection, exciting new initiatives in community outreach and educational programming, and much more.

Our feature story beginning on page 3 explores the many ways that Foundation members will experience these grand openings. Updated information on all activities at our Santa Fe museums, eight historic sites statewide and Office of Archaeological Studies will be coming to you every two weeks through our Member E-News. You can also check the Foundation’s website—museumfoundation.org—for a comprehensive calendar of events.

This year and every year, we remember that the generous support from you, our members, makes possible these extraordinary advances and programming throughout the Museum of New Mexico. We can’t say it enough: Thank you!

Sincerely,

Jamie Clements President/CEO “This year and every year, we remember that the generous support from you, our members, makes possible these extraordinary advances and programming throughout the Museum of New Mexico.” —Jamie Clements

Photo by Saro Calewarts.