February 2010
At the Museum
See also: Southwest Art Scene
History Lessons
Menu of this month's listings, stories and columns
Centennial Museum — University at Wiggins, UTEP. Changing exhibits are on the second floor, Lea and Discovery Galleries. Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Admission is free. Information: 747-5565 or utep.edu/museum.
Showing Feb. 11-April 17: “High and Dry,” annual exhibit of photographic images of desert lands by the International Center for Arid and Semiarid Land Studies (ICASALS) at Texas Tech University. The center has hosted the annual show for more than a decade. This exhibit features images from the current and past shows, including 60 images of North American deserts – their landscapes, people, animals and plants.
Showing through March 13: “Border Stories: Photographs and Commentary by Bruce Berman.” Berman has been documenting the US-Mexico border for three of his four decades as a professional photographer. He concentrates on the narrow stretch of land that encompasses El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. Berman lives and works deep in the borderlands, three blocks from the international bridge connecting the two cities. Border Stories is the latest of his efforts to portray the border, beginning with the Border Project: 1985-2007 and the continuing Border Blog. These photographs, from what Berman calls the “City State of No Man’s Land” are part of his planned book.
Continuing exhibits are on the third floor of the Centennial and include archaeology, ethnology and paleontology of the Southwest. Around the museum building, the Chihuahuan Desert Gardens exhibit the beauty and utility of Southwestern water-conserving native plants in landscaping. The gardens are open daily from daylight to dusk.
El Paso Holocaust Museum and Study Center — 715 N. Oregon. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Closed Monday. Admission is free. Information: 351-0048 or elpasoholocaustmuseum.org.
The El Paso museum depicts Jewish life in Europe before World War II, Hitler’s rise to power, the expulsion of Jews into ghettoes, life in concentration camps, prisoner resistance to the Nazis and liberation of the camps. Also featured is a local survivors exhibit. Docents available for guided tours.
The museum’s book club meets at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 4, to discuss “The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews” by Father Patrick DeBois. The public is welcome, but RSVP by Feb. 2 required as seating is limited: 351-0048 ext. 24.
The museum’s free monthly “Cinema Sundays” series is 2 p.m. the last Sunday of the month, featuring a Holocaust- or other genocide-related film. The Feb. 28 film is “The Reader.”
El Paso Museum of Archaeology — 4301 Transmountain in Northeast El Paso (west of U.S. 54). Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free. Information: 755-4332.
Showing through Feb. 14: “Rarámuri: The Foot Runners of the Sierra Madre,” photography by Diana Molina. The exhibit includes 25 ilfochrome color prints, as well as 25 Rarámuri hand-crafted artifacts. Molina captures the contemporary life of the Rarámuri of the Sierra Madre in the steep mountain terrain where they live lightly on the land in contrast to the outside world that intrudes with roads and extraction of resources. For more than a decade she has documented the Sierra Madre and its people, and her photographs provide a view of their life from child rearing and sports to community social life, ceremonies, and indigenous as well as Christian beliefs.
Molina will provide a personal zip tour of her exhibit at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 30.
Local archaeologist Lora Jackson-Legare will give the illustrated presentation “Evidence of Pueblo Ceremonialism in the El Paso Region” at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 6. The highlight of this evidence is a specific prehistoric El Paso Polychrome crenellated bowl in the collection of the El Paso Museum of Archaeology. Jackson-Legare is currently the archaeology laboratory director for Geo-Marine, Inc., a local consulting firm. From 2002 to 2007 she was Curator of Education at the El Paso Museum of Archaeology.
Local archaeologist Tabitha (Beth) Griffith will present an El Paso Archaeological Society Lecture, ‘Seeing Beneath the Soil” at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 21. Griffith will use photographs and illustrations to show some of the equipment and technology archaeologists use to “see” what’s below ground. Admission is free.
The museum tells the 12,000-year-old story of prehistoric human habitation in the region, with five dioramas and exhibits of tools, pottery, rock art and other materials.
A nature trail takes visitors through 17 acres of Chihuahuan Desert with 200 varieties of desert plants. The trail also offers a local pithouse, pueblo ruin and an Apache brush hut. The park also has picnic tables and a gazebo.
Applications for faculty are being accepted through Feb. 15 for the museum’s 2010 Spring Camp. Applications for faculty for spring, summer and winter camps available year round. Faculty teach archaeology camps and weekend classes to children in elementary school through high school and to adults year round. Individuals are needed to teach three-hour camp sessions and/or short specialized skills classes. Camps and classes for children will be held weekdays during school breaks the week of March 15, the weeks of June 14 through Aug. 9, and the week of Dec. 27, and on weekends throughout the year. Information/qualification details: Marilyn Guida, Curator of Education, 755-4332 or guidamr@elpasotexas.gov.
El Paso Museum of Art — One Arts Festival Plaza, downtown El Paso. For exhibit information, see “Southwest Art Scene.”
El Paso Museum of History — 510 N. Santa Fe. Hours (including gift shop) are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. Closed Mondays and city holidays. Special admission fee for Da Vinci exhibit; admission to other exhibits is free. Information: 351-3588 or elpasotexas.gov/history.
Showing through July 10: “The Da Vinci Experience Exhibition.” El Paso will be the exhibit’s West Texas stop. More than 60 precise and working machines described and designed by Leonardo Da Vinci along with replicas of his greatest paintings; most notably the Mona Lisa, are on display. One piece is a precursor to the Gatling gun, weighing 2 tons. Tickets: $14 ($12 seniors 65 and older; $10 ages 5-11; $9 each for groups of 10). Family packages (sold in groups of five): $7 per ticket. (Ticketmaster).
A “Da Vinci: His life and Times” illustrated lecture by Dr. Max Grossman, Professor of Italian Art History at UTEP, is 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20.
A special teacher Da Vinci workshop is 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27. Call for details.
Also showing is “Casas Grandes, Casas Chicas: Cottage Industries of Paquimé and Mata Ortíz.” Casas Grandes is a archaeological site in Northern Mexico, and Mata Ortiz is a modern community in the same region. The exhibit includes more than 50 examples of prehistoric Casas Grandes pottery, modern attempts to copy this pottery, and the distinctive style developed in Mata Ortiz. Other cottage industries represented are stone work and jewelry. Photographs by Marc Thompson, recently retired director of El Paso Museum of Archaeology, are featured.
Showing through May: “Awakening Our Giants-Celebrating Our Firsts” honoring the NCAA 1966 Basketball Champions. The exhibit includes the unveiling of El Paso’s “Wall of Giants,” which is part of the future, permanent gallery, “Awakening Our Giants” and “Celebrating Our Firsts.”
Free zip tours are 12:15 to 1 p.m. on selected Wednesdays.
Permanent exhibits include “El Paso: A to Z,” a nontraditional look at day-to-day life in El Paso, and ‘The Changing Pass,” a chronological history of the region from the Ice Age through the Camino Real, arrival of stagecoaches and more.
Ron Leinman will lecture on “The ATSF Railroad and El Paso” 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11.
A Black History Month celebration is 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 13, featuring “The Buffalo Soldiers” presented by Victory Warriors.
UTEP Professor, Dr. Maceo Dailey will discuss “Booker T. Washington in El Paso during the Mexican Revolution” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 18, as part of the Mexican Revolution 100th anniversary lecture series. Admission is free, but seating is limited. RSVP requested. R.S.V.P requested.
The museum hosts Tai Chi I classes 9 to 10 a.m. for beginners and Tai Chi II classes 10:15 to 11:15 a.m. for intermediate students (Tai Chi I prerequisite) Saturdays through March 13. Cost: $30 ($10 museum members).
Volunteer training for the Da Vinci exhibit is 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10, and 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11.
Fort Bliss Museums and Study Center — Building 1735, Marshall Road (old PX building), Fort Bliss. Exhibits range from Civil War artifacts to the Patriot Missile System. Admission is free. Open 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily. Information: 568-3390 or 568-5412.
With the relocation of the 1st Armored Cavalry Division to Fort Bliss, the museum is adding 35 tanks and 10 other vehicles to its outdoor displays. The museum is also expanding its exhibit on the post’s history with Mexico, including the 1916 “Punitive Expedition” led by Gen. John “Blackjack” Pershing.
Also on Fort Bliss is Old Fort Bliss, Building 5051, corner of Pershing and Pleasanton, a reproduction of the Magoffinsville Post of 1854 to 1868. Information: 568-4518.
Insights El Paso Science Museum — 505 N. Santa Fe. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission: $6 ($5 seniors, students and military; $4 ages 4-11). Information: 534-0000 or insightselpaso.org.
Currently on exhibit: “Giant Worlds.” The National Science Foundation and NASA has provided major funding to the Space Science Institute for the traveling exhibition about Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The exhibit highlights discoveries made possible with tools such as the Hubble Space Telescope, the Keck Observatory, and the Cassini spacecraft.
Also showing is “To the Ends of the Earth, UTEP at The Poles.” UTEP biology faculty and students, joined by high school teachers from El Paso and students from across the U.S., headed for Antarctica and the Arctic to carry out research projects. This exhibit highlights their work, what they learned about the impact of climate change, and explains the differences and similarities between the north and south poles. Guests can measure themselves against different types of penguins, create an origami penguin and learn how actions in El Paso effect climate change at the poles.
International Museum of Art — 1211 Montana. Information: 543-6747 or info@internationalmuseumofart.net. See “Southwest Art Scene.”
LYNX Exhibits — The exhibit space is at 300 W. San Antonio (just south of Convention Center). Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday. Closed Monday. Last admission is one hour before closing time.
Admission is $10 for adults; $8 seniors, military and students with ID; and $6 ages 4 to 11. Children 3 and younger are free. Information: 533-4330 or lynxexhibits.com.
Showing Jan. 30-May 30: “Extreme Deep: Mission to the Abyss,” featuring hands-on exhibits on the technology necessary for deep-sea exploration. The exhibit also depicts the mysteries of the ocean’s greatest depths including newly discovered life forms, thermal vents, close-up views of deep-sea research submersibles and shipwrecks, including the Titanic. Included is a dramatically recreated ocean-floor environment, a simulator ride with dolphins, multiple hands-on activity tables and an aquarium exhibit featuring unusual and rare sea life. A small touching pool for Atlantic Stingrays will also be built.
From the Command Center, visitors may simulate the launching of “Alvin,” the robotic submersible that explored the Titanic. Visitors also may fly a remotely operated vehicle over a model of the Titanic’s deck and test their skill at manipulating Alvin’s robotic arm.
A Grand Opening party for “Extreme Deep” is 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 30.
Magoffin Home State Historic Site — 1120 Magoffin. The adobe home, built around 1875 by Joseph Magoffin, is a prime example of territorial style architecture. The site explores the stories of the prominent El Paso pioneer family, with authentic art and furnishings that reflect the daily lives of that era.
Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Tours on the hour; last tour at 4 p.m. Cost: $4 ($3 ages 6-18). Group tours available with advance registration. Information: 533-5147 or visitmagoffinhome.com.
“Spirit Tours” are offered by the Casa Magoffin Compañeros at 10 a.m. the second Saturday of every month. Cost: $5. Reservations required.
National Border Patrol Museum and Memorial Library — 4315 Transmountain Drive. The museum, in Northeast El Paso just west of U.S. 54, features the history of the Border Patrol with uniforms, equipment, photographs, guns, motor vehicles, airplanes, boats and other items, including hands-on exhibits for kids. The Border Patrol was founded in 1924 in El Paso. Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Closed Sunday, Monday and major holidays. Admission is free. Information: 759-6060 or borderpatrolmuseum.com.
Railroad and Transportation Museum of El Paso — More than 100 years of El Paso railroad history are on display at Union Depot Transit Terminal, 400 W. San Antonio, at Durango. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free. Information: 422-3420 or elpasorails.com.
Home of El Paso’s “Old No. 1” engine, the museum covers the city’s transportation history. The “Classic American” 1857 Locomotive is featured with the history of eight railroads and the Transcontinental Railroad System. Exhibits cover the lives of rail workers, their jobs, and the use of railroads in wartime. Urban transportation exhibits cover the Mule Cars of 1882, streetcars of 1902 and streamlined 1937 PCC Cars.
U.S. Army Museum of the NCO — Building 11331, Staff Sergeant Simms St., Biggs Army Airfield. Equipment and uniforms used by sergeants and other NCO’s through the years are displayed. Admission: free. Hours: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Information: 568-8646.
War Eagles Air Museum — 8012 Airport Road, Doña Ana County Airport, Santa Teresa. Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Admission: $5; $4 senior citizens and military; free for children under 12. Information: (575) 589-2000 or war-eagles-air-museum.com.
The warbirds of World War II and Korea, and other historic military aircraft, are displayed in a 54,000-square-foot building and surrounding area. The collection of more than 30 aircraft and 40 automobiles includes the P-51 Mustang, P-38 Lightning, A-26 Invader and the German Fieseler-Storch. Among later aircraft are the F-86 Sabre and MiG-15s.
To get there: Take the Artcraft exit off Interstate 10, head west past the Rio Grande to Santa Teresa and follow signs to the airport and museum.
Las Cruces area
Casasola Museum/Museo Casasola — 2251 Calle de Santiago in Old Mesilla, N.M. Open sunrise to sunset daily. Admission is free, but donations accepted. Information: casasolamuseum@gmail.com or casasolamuseum.com.
The museum is devoted to Mexico-U.S. history, and archives special collections with more than 120,000 images that portray the borderland relationship between the two countries. The images in the exhibit are from some of the museum’s various private collections captured by more than 600 professional photographic artists over four generations. Federico Casasola has preserved the family’s legacy through the founding of the Casasola Museum in Old Mesilla.
Las Cruces Museum of Natural History — Mesilla Valley Mall, Las Cruces (take Lohman exit east from I-25). Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays and Saturdays; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Fridays; 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays. All events are free unless otherwise noted. Information: (575) 522-3120 or las-cruces.org.
Showing through May 9: “A View from Space.”
The monthly hands-on Saturday Science Class for elementary children is 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 6. The topic is Electricity.
Sky Safari is 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20, at La Llorona Park, W. Picacho at River Levee Road to view Pleiades (Star cluster) and M35 (Open Cluster in Gemini).
On permanent exhibit is the Nature Center, highlighting the wildlife of Southern New Mexico with a broad collection of amphibians, reptiles, fish and arachnids native to the Chihuahuan Desert.
Las Cruces Railroad Museum — The museum is in the Santa Fe train depot, 351 N. Mesilla, (at Las Cruces avenue west of the Downtown Mall). Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. Admission is free; donations encouraged. Information: (575) 647-4480 or museums.las-cruces.org//rrmuseum.shtm.
A screening of the video “Locomotion: The Amazing World of Trains,” Volume I is 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 6, with Volume II 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 20.
The museum’s brown bag lecture series is noon the second Tuesday of each month in 2010 to honor the 100th year of the Santa Fe Railroad Depot. The lecture series is a designated We the People project by the New Mexico Humanities Council. Light refreshments served; RSVP encouraged. The Feb. 9 lecture is “Traditional Garden Herbs of New Mexico” with From the Ground Up owner Deborah Brandt.
The Rail Readers Book Club meets at 11 to noon the second Wednesday of the month to discuss a train mystery book. The Feb. 10 book is “Deadman’s Switch” by Barbara Seranella. Call the museum for registration.
NM Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum — 4100 Dripping Springs, Las Cruces. Hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission: $5 for adults, $3 seniors 60 and older, $2 for children 5-17; free for age 4 and under. Information: (575) 522-4100 or nmfarmandranchmuseum.org.
New Mexico Music Commission Executive Director Nancy Laflin will speak about the commission’s work and screen the 2009 documentary “New Mexico Music Legends: Norman Petty Studios,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, as part of the museum’s lecture and film series. The documentary profiles the famous Clovis music studio where artists Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Leann Rimes, and the Fireballs all recorded some of their early music hits. Admission: $2 donation.
Opening Thursday, Feb. 11, is “What in the World?”, a fun and informative journey through an array of unusual objects from the museum’s collections. These peculiar-looking gadgets were used for a variety of tasks and museum visitors are invited to answer the challenge to identify their uses in this interactive exhibit.
Showing through July 18: “Building for the Future: Rural Schoolhouses of New Mexico: 1880-1965.” The exhibit takes visitors on a winding tour of the state to encounter schoolhouses from various small communities.
Showing through April 4 in the Arts Corridor: “Animal Impressions: The Art of Narrie Toole.” The exhibit features impressionistic western oil paintings, and canvas and paper giclées of farm and ranch animals and wildlife indigenous to the west.
Showing through Sept. 10: “Colcha: Embroidered Connections,” Colcha is an embroidery method traced back to the 1700s in New Mexico.
Ongoing exhibits include “Generations,” “Farm Life in New Mexico: Then and Now” and “The Inside Story of the Roadside View: Agriculture in the Lower Rio Grande Valley” in the Heritage Gallery, and Peter Hurd’s “The Future Belongs to Those Who Prepare For It” in the Central Corridor.
Classes and workshops (pre-registration required):
• Harvest Cooking Class is 2 to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 2, with chef Carol Koenig. This month’s class features a variety of recipes. Cost: $35.
• Old-Fashioned Valentine’s Day class for ages 7 to 12, is 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, Feb. 6. Kids will create vintage Valentine crafts (bring a photo to use in crafts). Cost: $10 (includes museum admission for one child and one adult).
• A Greenhouse Gardening class is 10 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 6 and Feb. 27, hosted by the museum’s Landscaping Department. Topics include amending soils, applying herbicides and pesticides, water conservation, and fertilizing. Cost is regular museum admission, but space is limited to first 25 people who pre-register.
• A Colcha Embroidery Workshop is 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27. Students learn the basics of traditional Colcha embroidery stitching and complete a small in-class project. Bring a six-inch embroidery hoop and scissors. Cost: $25 ($20 volunteers and museum members).
The museum also features domestic animals on site, including six different breeds of beef cattle, burros and occasionally horses. Milking demonstrations are at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. daily (3 p.m. only Sundays). Blacksmith shop open Tuesday through Sunday. Sewing and weaving demonstrations are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesdays.
Cart rides to see livestock also offered (call for schedule).
Walking tours of the South 20 are 10:15 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.
Gallery talks are 2 p.m. Wednesdays in the Main Gallery.
NMSU Art Gallery — D.W. Williams Art Center (Williams Hall) on the NMSU campus, Las Cruces (east of Solano). Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursdays, and 1 to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Closed Mondays and University holidays. Information: (575) 646-2545 or nmsu.edu/artgal.
Showing through Feb. 26: Mixed media installation by Colombian artist Luis Roldan.
NMSU Museum — Kent Hall, University at Solano, Las Cruces. Hours are noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Admission is free. Information: (575) 646-5161 or nmsu.edu/museum/.
Spring 2010 Exhibits are “Hopi Katrina Dolls” and “Exploring Yaqui and Mayo Ceremonial Disguise.” Learn about the vibrant cultural traditions of the Hopi of northeastern Arizona as well as the Yaqui of southern Arizona and Sonora and the Mayo of Sinaloa.
Opening reception for both exhibits is 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 18. Refreshments served.
The museum’s permanent exhibit is “Pottery from the Americas,” featuring nearly 600 pottery vessels representing Southwestern and Mesoamerican ceramics.
White Sands Missile Range Museum and Missile Park — Exhibits feature the history of the Trinity Site (site of the first atomic bomb test), the V-2 rocket, ranchers on the range and missile optics. An outdoor Missile Park displays rockets and missiles tested on the range. Hours: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Closed on federal holidays. Free admission.
To get there: take U.S. 54, and after the freeway ends, keep going north on Martin Luther King, which leads directly to the range. Or enter from the north off U.S. 70 east of Las Cruces. Visitors must provide a current license, car registration and proof of insurance. Information: (575) 678-8824 (local call) or wsmr-history.org.
Also
Hubbard Museum of the American West — 841 U.S. Hwy 70 West, next to Ruidoso Downs (N.M.) Race Track. Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day. Admission: $6 ($5 for seniors, military; $2 children 6-16; free for children 5 and younger). Information: (575) 378-4142 or hubbardmuseum.org.
Showing Jan. 30-April 11: “Biennale Grande,” juried exhibition of New Mexico artists. Open house reception for both exhibits is 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 29.
Showing through Oct. 3, 2010: “Ancient New Mexico,” an in-depth exhibit of the peoples who inhabited the southwest from pre-historical periods up to Spanish exploration.
Fort Stanton National Conservation Area 30 Cave Program Managers Mike Bilbo presents “New Developments and New Discoveries at Fort Stanton Cave” at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 13.
New Mexico Museum of Space History — The museum features the International Space Hall of Fame and the Tombaugh IMAX Dome Theater and Planetarium, and is located on the northeast side of Alamogordo off Indian Wells Blvd.
Saturday Space Science classes are offered 9 a.m. to noon Saturdays, for first through third graders and 1 to 4 p.m. for grades four through six. Registration: $18 per session ($15 for museum members) or $60 per month ($50 for members).
Currently showing: “Space Frontiers,” a look at the heritage and future of space exploration in New Mexico. From ancient Native American observatories at Chaco Canyon to modern day facilities such as the Very Large Array astronomical radio observatory, New Mexico’s clear skies and high altitudes have provided an ideal location to study the heavens. This exhibition showcases the state’s history and contributions to how humans see and travel beyond planet earth.
The Hall of Fame attractions include a simulated Mars room, the rocket sled used in early space program research, and various other space exhibits. Space center hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission: $6 ($5 for seniors and military, $4 ages 4-12, children 3 and younger free). Information: (877) 333-6589, (575) 437-2840 or nmspacemuseum.org.
Showing at the IMAX Dome Theater are the films “Sharks” and “Molecules to the Max.” Showtimes are on the hour, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Tickets: $6 general admission; $5.50 for seniors and military; $4.50 ages 4-12. Ages 3 and under free for all shows.
Sacramento Mountains Historical Museum — U.S. 82 across from the Chamber of Commerce in Cloudcroft, N.M. Operated by the Sacramento Mountains Historical Society, the museum features historical buildings from the turn of the century, antique farming and ranching tools, other business and home antiques, historical exhibits and other artifacts. Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Tuesday and Friday and Saturday; and 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday. Closed Wednesday and Thursday. Admission: $3 ($1 children). Information: (575) 682-2932 or smhsmuseumoffice@yahoo.com.
Silver City Museum — 312 W. Broadway, Silver City, in the historic H.B. Ailman House. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The museum covers the settlement of southwest New Mexico, the two centuries of mining in the region and early commerce in Silver City. Group tours offered with advance notice. Admission: $3 suggested donation. Information: (575) 538-5921, 1-877-777-7947 (out of town), or silvercitymuseum.org.
Showing through March: “Taking Care of Our Own: Grant County’s Hospital Heritage, 1883-2009.”
Showing through spring is “Free Flow: The Gila River in New Mexico.” A free lecture by M.H. “Dutch” Salmon is 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 31.
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