New Mexico Museum of Art

The New Mexico Museum of Art is the state's oldest art museum, housed in a landmark 1917 Pueblo Revival building that faces the Santa Fe Plaza and constitutes one of the most important examples of the Spanish Colonial Revival architectural style in the United States. The permanent collection spans more than a century of New Mexico art - from the founding generation of the Taos Society of Artists and Santa Fe art colony through midcentury abstraction to contemporary New Mexican practice - making it the definitive repository for the visual history of art in the state. The museum's St. Francis Auditorium, decorated with murals depicting the history of New Mexico, is itself a landmark of American regionalist mural painting.