NewsMuseum celebrates San Ysidro on May 15
- The New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum will celebrate the annual San Ysidro Day on May 15 with a blessing of the fields processional.
Bishop Ricardo Ramirez of the Las Cruces Diocese will lead the colorful procession . . . Museum changes food services
- The New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum is modifying its food services to better fit its evolving needs.
The museum is replacing its daily restaurant with a snack bar that will be operated by the Eagle Ranch Mercantile. . . Mercantile exhibit takes visitors back in time
- It’s not often you see two people playing checkers inside a museum exhibit.
But then there are not many exhibits like the new mercantile in the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum’s Heritage Gallery. The recreated gene. . . Museum announces Summer Class schedule for kids
- Summer Classes 2008
June 17
Cowboy 101
Grades K-3
9 a.m. - noon
Callin’ all cowpokes! Sharpen your cowboy skills by takin’ ropin’ lessons, learning how to saddle up a horse, and moseyin’ around our cattle pens. Pre-reg. . . Popular Shufelt drawings on display
- LAS CRUCES -- The popular offset lithographs by artist Robert “Shoofly” Shufelt are now being featured in the north hallway of the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum.
The pencil sketches will be on display through Aug.. . . Museum to help host Rag Rug Festival
- The Rag Rug Festival Las Cruces is returning to the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum the weekend of March 15 and 16.
Rag Rug Festival™ is a program of New Mexico Women’s Foundation whose mission is to create ec. . . Exhibit features Jewish Pioneers
- A new exhibit at the Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum brings to light the contributions to New Mexico's cultural, civic, economic, and creative life of Jewish merchants, bankers, miners, ranchers, and even a Jewish governor of A. . . Chavez lecture focuses on New Mexico history
- New Mexico’s history and how it relates to the rest of the world will be the subject of a special presentation on Feb. 14 at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum.
Noted historian Dr. Thomas Chavez will be the guest . . . Cowboy Days rides again on March 8-9
- New Mexico’s ranching heritage comes to life on March 8-9 when the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum hosts Cowboy Days.
The ninth-annual festival features two days packed with demonstrations, music, book-signings, ch. . . Museum announces holiday closings
- The New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum will be closed on Dec. 25 and Jan. 1.
The museum also will be closed to the public from noon to 5 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 28.
The museum’s restaurant will be closed from Dec. 23 . . . Author presents 'Avenging Victorio"
- Author Dave DeWitt of Albuquerque will be at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum on Dec. 13 to discuss his new book, “Avenging Victorio: A Novel of the Apache Insurgency in New Mexico, 1881.”
DeWitt will present a . . . Time Travel by Lantern Light
- The New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum’s fastest-growing event takes place on three consecutive nights next week.
“Time Travel by Lantern Light” is an interactive journey back in time that introduces visitors to New M. . . French Buckaroos focus of new exhibit
- A new exhibit at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum gives visitors an inside look at a centuries-old cowboy culture in France.
“Gardians of the Camargue: The French Buckaroo Tradition” opens in the Museum’s South . . . Celebration set for Historic Green Bridge
- After years of planning, researching and seeking funding, the Historic Green Bridge has been moved and is settled in at its new home.
The New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum is planning a large celebration on Oct.. . . Noted artist, students to create mural for Main Gallery
- Noted Las Cruces artist Anthony Pennock is teaming with a group of New Mexico State University students to create a mural for the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum’s Main Gallery.
Known mainly for his water tank mura. . . Museum earns awards for parade float
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The New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum received two major awards for its float in the New Mexico State Fair Parade on Sept. 8.
The Museum received the Governor’s Most Extraordinary Award, as well as the Most Specta. . . Storyteller comes to Museum
- Nationally known storyteller Paulette Atencio will present a special program at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum in Las Cruces on Thursday, Sept. 13.
Atencio will present “Life of a Farmer,” and “Chili Seeds of . . . Museum hosts first Harvest Festival
- The New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum in Las Cruces will hold its first Harvest Festival on Sunday, Sept. 9.
The event will be from noon to 5 p.m. and admission is $5 for adults, $3 for senior citizens and $2 for chi. . . Exhibit Explores "Castas" of New Spain
- The New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum is opening a new temporary exhibit that depicts the castas (castes) of New Spain in the form of beautiful prints.
“Castas: Emergence of a National Identity” is a collection of 24. . . Voices of American Farm Women
- Two Dona Ana County women who have been heavily involved in agriculture for years will be the speakers at an exhibit opening at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum.
Emma Jean Cervantes and Lacy Simpson will speak a. . . Antique Treasures Day
- That once-a-year peek into the enormous Collections Storage Room at the Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum is right around the corner.
“Antique Treasures Day” is scheduled for noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday, June 17. In celebration o. . . Museum hosts annual Ice Cream Sunday
- LAS CRUCES – There is nothing like enjoying ice cream on a hot Sunday afternoon in July.
The New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum in Las Cruces hosts its fourth-annual Ice Cream Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. on July 15. Sp. . . Museum event features cowboy folk songs
- Historian Elvis Fleming of Roswell presents "Cowboy Folk Songs of Southeastern New Mexico" at 7 p.m. on July 12 at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum in Las Cruces. The performance is part of the Museum's monthly lec. . . Exhibit draws visitors into 1920s-era farm house.
- It’s a colorful, nostalgic "slice of life" illuminating the Main Gallery of the Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum in Las Cruces.
The new addition to the gallery is called "Home Sweet Home," a component of the exhibit: "Farm Lif. . . Historic bridge headed to Museum
- LAS CRUCES – For almost 90 years it delivered New Mexicans from one side of the river to the other. Soon, the historic Rio Hondo Bridge will once again deliver its passengers to the other side -- this time across the To. . . Museum hosts blacksmith event
- LAS CRUCES -- The New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum and the Southwest Artist Blacksmiths Association are teaming up to bring a new and exciting event to Las Cruces.
The first Regional Blacksmiths Conference is sche. . . Museum visitors to step back in time
- LAS CRUCES -- History comes alive each December at the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum.
For the second straight year, the museum is hosting Time Travel by Lantern Light. From 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Dec. 7-9, visitor. . . |