New Mexico

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Museums: Kit Carson Historic Museum, Las Vegas City Museum & Rough Rider Memorial, Tucumcari Historical Research Institute & Museum, The Museum of New Mexico, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Rattlesnake Museum, El Malpais National Monument, El Morro National Monument, Farmington Museum, Grants Chamber of Commerce and Mining, Red Rock Museum, San Juan County Archaeological Research Center, E.L. Blumenschein Home & Museum, Florence Hawley Ellis Museum of Anthropology, Ghost Ranch Living Museum, Millicent Rogers Museum, Old Mill Museum, Palace of the Governors, Ruth Hall Museum of Paleontology, Cleveland Roller Mill Museum, Folsom Museum, Fort Union National Monument, Pecos National Historical Park, Raton Museum, Santa Fe Trail Museum & Historical Society, City of Las Cruces Log Cabin Museum, Fort Selden State Monument, Gadsden Museum, Las Cruces Museum of Natural History, New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources, New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, Silver City Museum, Western Archeological & Conservation Center, Center for Southwest Research, Charlie Morrisey Research Hall Collection, Geology Museum

The Silver City Museum

The Silver City Museum creates opportunities for residents and visitors to explore, understand, and celebrate the rich and diverse cultural heritage of southwestern New Mexico by collecting, preserving, researching and interpreting the region's unique history.

The Silver City Museum, opened in 1967, is a department of the Town of Silver City with support from the Silver City Museum Society and The Institute of Museum and Library Services. Housed in the restored 1881 Mansard/Italianate H.B Ailman House, the museum collection resource materials include some 20,000 objects relating to the peoples and history of southwest New Mexico.

A twelve-member Board of Directors, appointed by Silver City's mayor, oversees strategic planning and policy for the museum. Museum operations are administered by a small staff, supplemented with a large corps of volunteers.

The Silver City Museum
312 W. Broadway
Silver City, NM 88061
Phone (575) 538.5921
www.silvercitymuseum.org

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