15-16 Sep: Our focus in Santa Fe was museums and art galleries. We visited the Indian Art and Culture Museum & the International Folk Art Museum one day and the New Mexico History Museum & the New Mexico Art Museum the next. Our tour guide in the history museum gave us a thoroughly interesting and informative summary of some of the significant events and famous people in the state’s history, such as the Pueblo Revolt and Billy the Kid, and an appreciation of the influential cultural factors behind them. The museum area in the old part of Santa Fe showcases the traditional pueblo building style of the region. We also went through the gallery of Navajo artist R.C. Gorman, whose work we were introduced to by the collection of his art displayed in a restaurant back in New Hampshire.
