What's Happening at the FRHM

Events for the Month of July 2010

Demonstrations are part of what makes our museum unique. Click here for our demonstration schedule.

July 6, 2010
Harvest Cooking Class
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Enjoy a variety of creative recipes in our monthly cooking class. This month’s recipes feature tomatillos, poblano chile peppers, and cantaloupe. Carol Koenig is the chef. Pre-registration is required. $35.

July 8, 2010
Lecture Series: Hiking Apacheria & New Mexican Ranches
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Historian Jerry Eagan presents “Hiking Apacheria & New Mexico Ranches: Sites & Signs of the Apaches in Southwestern New Mexico.” Eagan, a retired civil servant and U.S. Army combat veteran of the Vietnam War, has hiked and studied various Apache trails and sites throughout the Southwest. For more information, visit www.hikingapacheria.com. Admission is a suggested donation of $2.

July 18, 2010
Ice Cream Sunday
12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
America’s favorite summer treat -- ice cream -- is the star of the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum’s most popular event of the summer.

The seventh-annual Ice Cream Sunday is set for 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, July 18. Admission is $4 for adults and $3 for children 17 and under.

The annual ice cream sandwich eating contest and race is scheduled to start at 2 p.m., with registration beginning at 12 p.m. There were will be several different age categories, and the contestants this year must move from table to table, eating one sandwich at each table.

There will be an ongoing living history performance, with a rural family creating and enjoying homemade ice cream. Museum visitors may make their own ice cream by rolling tin cans. Also, there will be green chile ice cream for sale, made from a tractor-engine-powered ice cream maker.

The event’s first 600 paid visitors will receive a coupon for a free 5-ounce cup of Caliche’s Frozen Custard, which will be served at the museum throughout the afternoon. They will have a choice of two toppings only – strawberry or mango.

Aside from Caliche’s Frozen Custard, the Southwest Dairy Farmers and Price’s Creameries also are sponsoring events and providing treats.

For more information, please call (575) 522-4100.

Exhibitions On Display in July 2010

George Gray: Son of a Cowboy
April 19, 2010 through August 8, 2010
The "Son of a Cowboy" exhibit is in the Arts Corridor and features 27 paintings, mostly including Western and Native American scenes. A man of many talents, George Gray’s New Mexico roots run deep. His . . .

Colcha: Embroidered Connections
November 25, 2009 through September 10, 2010
An embroidery method that is traced back to the 1700s in New Mexico is the focus of a tradition-rich exhibit called “Colcha: Embroidered Connections.” Colcha, a single and versatile stitch, has succeed. . .

What in the World?: Unusual Objects from the Museum Collections
February 11, 2010 through November 28, 2010
This highly interactive exhibit takes visitors on a fun and informative journey through a fascinating array of unusual objects from the museum’s vast collections. The gadgets featured in the exhibit wer. . .

Antique Equipment Park
On long-term display
Dozens of farm implements line the pathways through this outdoor exhibit. The park includes threshing machines, hay rakes, cultivators, planters, and many other horse-drawn and tractor-pulled equipment. . . .

Watering Place
On long-term display
This unique sculpture by artist Armando Alvarez is dedicated to New Mexico agriculturalists. The sculpture is shaped like a water tank. The cut-out figures were inspired by photographs of New Mexico farm a. . .

Skaggs Dairy Barn
On long-term display
A fixture at the Museum since it opened, the Skaggs Dairy Barn features exhibits that trace New Mexico's unique and long history of dairy production. Milking demonstrations are held here twice daily, at 10. . .

Witte Cabin
On long-term display
Built in the early 1920s, the "cabin" was intended for use as a garage for Marcus Witte's Model A. However, it soon became the blacksmith shop for the Witte ranch. The Museum relocated the historic str. . .

Generations
On long-term display
The Museum's first permanent exhibit takes visitors on an odyssey through 150 generations over 3,000 years of agriculture in New Mexico. The exhibit uses the biographies of 33 people from New Mexico's hist. . .

Peter Hurd's charcoal studies
On long-term display
In order to create a large work, like a mural or fresco on a wall, artists must plan and prepare. This is can be achieved through charcoal studies that work out compositional elements for the final versio. . .

Farm Life in New Mexico: Then & Now
On long-term display
Located in the Main Gallery, this beautiful new exhibit features four major sections: "Moving Around," "On the Farm," "Home Sweet Home," and "Going to Town." This extensive exhibit is packed full of intere. . .

Inside Story of the Roadside View
On long-term display
This exhibit focuses on contemporary agriculture in the Mesilla Valley. It provides a detailed look at irrigation, dairies, ranching and many of the crops that highway drivers see up and down the valley, s. . .

Historic Green Bridge
On long-term display
Formerly known as the Pecos River Bridge and the Rio Hondo Bridge, New Mexico's second-oldest highway bridge is the Museum's newest exciting structure. Built as part of a three-span bridge across the . . .