Center of Southwest Studies Museum
Fort Lewis College Campus · Durango, Colorado
The Center of Southwest Studies Museum at Fort Lewis College is the research museum and archive for an extraordinary collection of Navajo, Puebloan, and Hispano textiles, plus baskets, beadwork, pottery, sculpture, and paintings representing the full breadth of Southwest cultural production. The collection's depth — built over more than a century of collecting, research, and community collaboration — makes it one of the most significant repositories of Southwest material culture in the region. The Center's dual mission of scholarship and public education means visitors can engage with objects that might otherwise be accessible only to academic researchers, placed in the cultural and historical context they require to be fully understood.
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