LOCATION: New Mexico is a southwestern state in the US. The eastern border of New Mexico is with Oklahoma, west with Texas. Texas also lies south of most of New Mexico, although the southwestern boot-heel borders the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora. The states of New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Utah come together at the Four Corners in the northwestern corner of New Mexico.

Northwest Region

The El Morro Old School Gallery is a vibrant, non-profit organization that celebrates diversity of the area.

The Mission at Riverwalk showcases fine art from some of the Southwest's best artists.

New Mexico Mining Museum is the only underground uranium-mining museum in the World.

Other Attractions:
The Double Six Gallery/Cibola Arts Council
Farmington Museum

Central Region

Explora! Science Center & Children's Museum of Alb
Cliff's Amusement Park
Wildlife West Nature Park
Pueblo Cultural Center
The Rio Grande Botanic Garden

Holocaust & Intolerance Museum & Study Center is a national institute for the Prevention of Hate and Intolerance.

Lodestar Astronomy Center is a 20,000 square foot tm that has state-of-the-art planetarium, Virtual Voyages motion simulator, observatory, exhibit galleries, and StarWorks, an astronomy themed retail store.

The Albuquerque Aquarium showcases marine habitats of the Gulf of Mexico--salt marsh, eelgrass meadow, surf zone, coral reef and ocean.

American International Rattlesnake Museum is an animal conservation museum that reveals the hundreds of ways rattlesnakes and other 'less desirable' animals have influenced our lives.

National Atomic Museum provides a readily accessible repository of educational materials and information reflecting the Atomic Age, and to preserve, interpret, and exhibit to the public memorabilia of this Age.

Other Attractions:
Highland Swing Miniature Golf
The Albuquerque Museum
J&R Vintage Auto Museum
National Hispanic Cultural Center of New Mexico
Sandia Peak Tramway
Tinkertown Museum
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Hinkle Family Fun Center
Rio Grande Zoo
Maxwell Museum of Anthropology

Southwest Region

War Eagles Air Museum is dedicated to collecting, restoring and displaying historic aircraft of the World War II and the Korean Conflict eras.

Other Attractions:
Double E Guest Ranch
Cultural Complex
Las Cruces Museum of Natural History

North Central Region

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum is dedicated to enhancing appreciation of the art of Georgia O'Keeffe, one of the preeminent modern artists of the 20th century.

Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian hosts changing exhibitions of contemporary and historic Native American art with an emphasis on the Southwest.

El Rancho de las Golondrinas is a living history museum dedicated to the heritage and culture of Spanish Colonial New Mexico.

Other Attractions:
The Old Coal Mine Museum
Bradbury Science Museum
Los Alamos Historical Museum
Museum of International Folk Art
The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture
Millicent Rogers Museum of Northern New Mexico
Blumenschein Home & Museum
Lensic Performing Arts Center
Santa Fe Children's Museum
Museum of New Mexico

Northeast Region

The Las Vegas City Museum manages a collection of Rough Riders memorabilia and artifacts belonging to Northern New Mexico's territorial history and regional culture.

Herzstein Memorial Museum offers a rare collection of artifacts from the age of dinosaurs to the present.

Southeast Region

New Mexico Museum of Space History is a complex consisting of a space museum, Planetarium, IMAX® dome theater, and an International Space Hall of Fame.

Tularosa Basin Historical Society Museum promotes local, regional, and sometimes national history through exhibits, projects, presentations, and various other methods of conveying ideas.

The Blackwater Draw Museum displays artifacts and exhibits associated with the Blackwater Locality No. 1 Archaeological Site, one of the most important archaeological sites in the New World.

International UFO Museum & Research Center has become the worldwide center for UFO information.

Other Attractions:
Spring River Park & Zoo
Roswell Museum and Art Center
The Hubbard Museum of the American West
Spencer Theater for the Performing Arts
National Solar Observatory
Alameda Zoo
ENMU Natural History Museum
Roswell Symphony Orchestra is one of the very few communities in the state with an all-professional Symphony.
Smokey Bear Museum

NATIONAL PARKS

Gilla Cliff Dwellings National Monument offers a glimpse of the homes and lives of the people of the Mogollon culture who lived there from the 1280s through the early 1300s.

Pecos National Historic Park preserves 12,000 years of history including the ancient pueblo of Pecos, two Spanish Colonial Missions, Santa Fe Trail sites, 20th century ranch history of Forked Lightning Ranch, and the site of the Civil War Battle of Glorieta Pass.

Petroglyph National Monument has more than 20,000 prehistoric and historic Native American and Hispanic petroglyphs (images carved in rock) stretch 17-miles along Albuquerque's West Mesa escarpment.

Aztec Ruins National Monument reserves structures and artifacts of Ancestral Pueblo people from the 1100's through 1200s.

Other Attractions:
Bandelier National Monument
Capulin Volcano National Monument
Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument
Santa Fe National Historic Trail
White Sands National Monument
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Chaco Culture National Historic Park
El Malpais National Monument
El Morro National Monument
Fort Union National Monument

THINGS TO DO

War Eagles Air Museum pays special tribute to military aviation and reminds us all of the significant role these airplanes, their pilots and support crews played in securing US freedom.

Sandia Peak Tramway is the world's longest tramway. From the base to the top of 10,378 foot Sandia Peak, the trams lifts passengers from the desert floor, above canyons and lush forests, to the mountain top.