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NEW MEXICO HISTORIC SITES
FY2020-2021 MOVING THE PAST FORWARD
Beaming into the classroom |
The Virtual Classroom program, which includes lesson plans, pre-recorded video lessons and activities designed for K-12 students, was a major pandemic project for the historic sites. The project’s popularity proved it is worth continuing. Ongoing activities include daily updates to the sites’ YouTube pages featuring lessons on native plants, visits with animals, glimpses into the collections, and lectures from historians and experts across the state.
4,562 onsite student visits 92,730 virtual student visits 660,877 total online engagement
30 years in the making | Bosque
Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner Historic Site opened its newly renovated permanent exhibition Bosque Redondo: A Place of Suffering, A Place of Survival. A public opening ceremony will be held on May 28, 2022. The site’s journey to a more truthful telling of the 400-mile Long Walk is the result of three decades of collaboration between tribal leaders, Historic Sites staff, Friends of Bosque Redondo, Museum of New Mexico Foundation members and trustees, and the New Mexico State Legislature.
Left: Detail of a new permanent exhibition mural at the Bosque Redondo Memorial based on The Long Walk, a 2012 painting by Shonto Begay (Navajo/Diné). Photo courtesy New Mexico Historic Sites.
$5,200 exhibitions and education support $33,000 total private support
—Aaron Roth, Site Manager, Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner Historic Site
Beaming into the classroom | The
Virtual Classroom program, which includes lesson plans, pre-recorded video lessons and activities designed for K-12 students, was a major pandemic project for all eight of the historic sites. The project’s popularity proved it is worth continuing. Ongoing activities include daily updates to the sites’ YouTube pages featuring lessons on native plants, visits with animals, glimpses into the collections, and lectures from historians and experts across the state.
Shoring up the past | Closures at the New Mexico Historic Sites due to COVID-19 was an opportunity to tackle long overdue work. Lincoln Historic Site completed a $345,000 preservation project centering on six historic structures, including the Lincoln County Courthouse and John Tunstall Store. “Preserving heritage treasures like those in Lincoln to enrich the lives of New Mexicans through culture is at the heart of what we do,” says New Mexico Historic Sites Executive Director Patrick Moore. “We could not be more excited about the valuable work being conducted.”
Top: Children take part in “Stories of the Land,” one of many educational outreach programs offered by the New Mexico Historic Sites. Photo courtesy New Mexico Historic Sites. Left: Torreon at Lincoln Historic Site. Photo by Kenneth Walter.
