Las Cruces Museum of Art
Downtown Las Cruces · Las Cruces, New Mexico
The Las Cruces Museum of Art is a free civic museum in downtown Las Cruces presenting rotating exhibitions of regional and national artists alongside a growing permanent collection rooted in the art traditions of southern New Mexico. Free admission ensures that the museum functions as a genuine public resource for the full community of Las Cruces — a city of more than 100,000 people that has often been overshadowed by Santa Fe and Albuquerque in New Mexico's arts narrative. The permanent collection's emphasis on southern New Mexico art — reflecting the distinctive landscape, cultures, and communities of the Mesilla Valley and the Chihuahuan Desert — gives it a regional identity that distinguishes it from larger institutions to the north.
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