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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...

The photography of Diné photographer Rapheal Begay presents an account of the Navajo Nation—without ever directly portraying any people—by focusing on the land and the material and...

Professor W. H. “Chip” Wills will launch Maxwell Museum’s Celebration of International Archaeology Day with the presentation Chaco Canyon and The University of New Mexico: 90 Years of Discovery. He’ll discuss the ongoing exploration of researchers from...

In 1963 the Sierra Club, an environmental organization founded by John Muir, enlisted photographer Eliot Porter to document Glen Canyon, a stunning landscape slated to be submerged under the waters of the Colorado River with the construction of the Glen...

The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology is hosting a lecture on The Transformation of a Wolf Killer into a Wolf Protector: Wolves, Conversation and Ernest Thompson Seton by David L. Witt on Saturday, March 23 at 1 p.m. at the Museum.    Perhaps no other...

Perhaps no other animal in North America has been as controversial as the gray wolf, which once numbered in the millions on this continent. Massive reductions of many wolf populations began with the arrival of European settlers. Efforts to conserve...

Open to the public, this coming Friday gives The University of New Mexico community a rare opportunity to experience three art openings in one invigorating evening. From a rotation of innovative films, to exploring the timeless connection between wolves...

The University of New Mexico Maxwell Museum of Anthropology presents the 10thAnnual Navajo Rug Auction on Saturday, Nov. 17 at 1 p.m. at the Prairie Star Restaurant in Bernalillo. Viewing will begin at 11 a.m. The event is free and open to all. More...