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Museums:

Art: Casa San Ysidro, Center for Contemporary Arts, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Harwood Museum, Indian Arts Research Center at the School of American Research, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Millicent Rogers Museum, Museum Hill, Museum of Fine Arts, The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Museum of International Folk Art, Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, New Mexico Creates, New Mexico State University Art Museum, SITE Santa Fe, Taos Art Museum, Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, University of New Mexico Art Museum

History: Alamogordo Museum of History, The Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, Billy the Kid Museum, City of Las Vegas Museum/Rough Rider Memorial Collection, Cleveland Roller Mill Museum, E. L. Blumenschein Home and Museum, El Rancho de las Golondrinas, Farmington Museum, Grandma's Trading Post and Museum, Historic Percha Bank, Hubbard Museum of the American West, Kit Carson Home and Museum, La Hacienda de los Martinez, Los Alamos Historical Museum, Palace of the Governors, Sacramento Mountains Historical Museum & Pioneer Village, Silver City Museum, Smokey Bear Historical Park

National History, Science and Space: Albuquerque Biological Park, Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum, Bradbury Science Museum, Explora, Ghost Ranch Living Museum, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, Mesalands Dinosaur Museum, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, New Mexico Museum of Space History

Special Interests: American International Rattlesnake Museum, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, International UFO Museum, Museum of Turquoise, National Atomic Museum, National Hispanic Cultural Center, New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum, New Mexico State University Zuhl Collection, NMOCA,Old Coal Mine Museum, Santa Fe Children's Museum, The Unser Racing Museum, Tinkertown Museum, U.S. Southwest Soaring Museum, War Eagles Air Museum

Ghost Ranch Living Museum

A museum of conservation, ecology and heritage located in northern New Mexico in the landscape immortalized by painter Georgia O'Keeffe.

Ghost Ranch was given to the Presbyterian Church in 1955 by Arthur and Pheobe Pack. The 21,000 acres that comprise Ghost Ranch were part of a land grant to Pedro Martin Serrano from the King of Spain in 1766. The grant was called Piedra Lumbre (shining rock). The name "Ghost Ranch," or the local name "El Rancho de los Brujos," was derived from the many tales of ghosts and legends of hangings in the Ranch's history.

Georgia O'Keeffe and Ghost Ranch have always been connected. Although she never owned Ghost Ranch, she eventually purchased a small home from Arthur Pack and later a home in Abiquiu. She spent many years exploring and painting the Ghost Ranch environs. Her love for northern New Mexico started in 1917 ona trip O'Keeffe and her sister Claudia took to New Mexico and Colorado from their home in Canyon, Texas. Yet it was 12 years before O'Keeffe returned to New Mexico and even longer before she found her way into the beautiful valley that would eventually become her summer home.

For over fifty years the Church, the staff, the National Ghost Ranch Foundation and many friends and supporters have built the programs, facilities and grounds into a nationally known study and conference center. You can take a class or enjoy the B&B or conference facilities at Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu and make O'Keeffe the focus of your stay by combining the Georgia O'Keeffe and Ghost Ranch Landscape Tour with the Georgia O'Keeffe Home and Studio Tour.

Ghost Ranch Living Museum
Carson National Forest, 15 miles north of Abiquiu, US 84
Abiquiu, NM 87510
Phone ( 505) 753-2155
www.ghostranch.org/

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