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Chaco Canyon is extraordinary in many respects, not least in the dense concentration of jewelry found in archaeological contexts dating between the 9th and early 12th centuries CE (Current Era). The largest and most prominent pueblo in the Canyon is...

The Latin American and Iberian Institute at The University of New Mexico has announced its Fall 2020 Im/migration and Human Rights Series, co-sponsored by the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, the Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies, and El...

The University of New Mexico (UNM) has received a $3 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for an innovative graduate education program centered in the University’s science museums. The Museum Research Training Program (MRT) is a...

Right now during a pandemic shutdown, people don’t have to actually visit the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology on The University of New Mexico campus to “visit” the museum. Like most museums, the Maxwell is closed right now because...

With local healthcare workers facing a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, UNM Art Museum, and Museum of Southwest Biology recently donated their supply of gloves and N-95 masks to UNM Hospital. 

In response to the current unprecedented public health situation, curator of exhibits Devorah Romanek at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at The University of NewMexico is creating a new and rapidly evolving virtual exhibition COVID-19: Concepts of...

In 2018, the National Museum of Brazil was ravaged by a fire that destroyed a huge collection of irreplaceable historical artifacts. In a New York Times article, Dalton de Souza Amorim, a professor of biology at the University of São Paulo, was quoted as...

Celebrate our evolutionary past! Children will be able to travel 4 million years back in time this weekend and discover our ancient human ancestors at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology on the UNM campus. The popular radio program The Children’s Hour,...

The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology will hold special evening hours Friday, Dec. 6, from 6 to 8 p.m. during the UNM Hanging of the Greens, when the campus will be illuminated by more than 13,000 luminarias.  Visitors are welcome to the museum to enjoy...

Chances are, if you think of Native American arts, the Navajo rug comes to mind. Every rug is a unique work of art that starts with raising the sheep and goats for wool, which is then shorn, carded, spun, dyed, and finally woven, all by hand, into a rug...