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275 matches in New Mexico

Living Desert Zoo & Gardens State Park
Nature
Living Desert Zoo & Gardens State Park
Carlsbad

State park zoo and botanical garden in Chihuahuan Desert — covers desert ecology, native plant biology, and wildlife conservation.

Los Alamos History Museum
Historical
Los Alamos History Museum
Los Alamos

Museum documenting the Manhattan Project and Los Alamos National Laboratory — covers WWII history, nuclear physics policy, and Cold War science.

Manhattan Project National Historical Park (Los Alamos Site) - Visitor Contact Station
Science
Manhattan Project National Historical Park (Los Alamos Site) - Visitor Contact Station
Los Alamos

NPS contact station at the Los Alamos Manhattan Project site — nuclear physics history, WWII science policy, and atomic-age ethics.

Mesalands Dinosaur Museum and Natural Sciences Laboratory
Science
Mesalands Dinosaur Museum and Natural Sciences Laboratory
Tucumcari

Regional dinosaur museum with bronze fossil casts and working paleontology lab — covers vertebrate paleontology, geology, and scientific method.

Museum of Indian Arts & Culture
Historical
Museum of Indian Arts & Culture
Santa Fe

State museum focused on Indigenous Pueblo and Southwest cultures — covers Native American history, material culture, and archaeological context.

Museum of Nature & Science
Science
Museum of Nature & Science
Las Cruces

Regional natural history and science museum — covers paleontology, geology, and Chihuahuan Desert ecology.

National Hispanic Cultural Center
Museum
National Hispanic Cultural Center
Albuquerque

Cultural center dedicated to Hispanic arts and heritage — covers Latin American history, visual arts, performing arts, and social studies from pre-Columbian to present.

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Science
National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Albuquerque

Dedicated nuclear science and history museum covering fission, reactor design, the Manhattan Project, and Cold War weapons development.

New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum
Historical
New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum
Las Cruces

Living-history farm and ranch museum with livestock, blacksmithing, and irrigation demonstrations — covers agricultural history, animal husbandry, and New Mexico heritage.

New Mexico History Museum
Historical
New Mexico History Museum
Santa Fe

State history museum in the Palace of the Governors complex — covers New Mexico's Spanish colonial, Native American, and territorial history with primary-source artifacts.

New Mexico Museum of Natural History
Science
New Mexico Museum of Natural History
Albuquerque

State natural-history museum with dinosaur fossils, volcanic geology, and New Mexico paleontology exhibits — applied earth science and evolutionary biology.

New Mexico Skies Observatories
Science
New Mexico Skies Observatories
Mayhill

Dark-sky observatory offering remote telescope access and on-site viewing — covers observational astronomy, optics, and celestial mechanics.

NM Museum of Natural History Foundation
Science
NM Museum of Natural History Foundation
Albuquerque

New Mexico Museum of Natural History with dinosaur exhibits, planetarium, and geology halls — paleontology, earth science, and evolutionary biology.

NRAO Very Large Array
Science
NRAO Very Large Array
Magdalena

NSF-operated radio telescope array of 27 dish antennas used for active astrophysics research — covers radio astronomy, electromagnetic spectrum, and scientific data collection.

Palace of the Governors at New Mexico History Museum
Historical
Palace of the Governors at New Mexico History Museum
Santa Fe

Oldest continuously occupied public building in the US with exhibits on New Mexico and Spanish colonial history — primary-source American Southwest history.

Pecos National Historical Park
Historical
Pecos National Historical Park
Pecos

NPS site preserving a Pueblo and Spanish mission complex occupied 1100–1838 — pre-Columbian archaeology, Spanish colonial history, and Ancestral Puebloan culture.

Petroglyph National Monument
Historical
Petroglyph National Monument
Albuquerque

Over 20,000 volcanic rock carvings by ancestral Pueblo peoples — covers Indigenous archaeology, geology of volcanic escarpments, and Southwest prehistory.

Prehistoric Trackways National Monument
Science
Prehistoric Trackways National Monument
Las Cruces

National monument preserving Permian-era vertebrate and invertebrate fossil trackways — covers paleontology, geological time, and plate tectonics.

Puye Cliff Dwellings
Historical
Puye Cliff Dwellings
Los Alamos

Ancestral Pueblo cliff dwellings on Santa Clara Pueblo land — covers pre-Columbian architecture, Indigenous history, and Southwestern archaeology.

Río Grande del Norte National Monument
Nature
Río Grande del Norte National Monument
Embudo

BLM national monument along the Río Grande Gorge — covers volcanic geology, river ecology, desert biology, and Pueblo cultural history.

Rockhound State Park
Nature
Rockhound State Park
Deming

New Mexico state park where visitors collect volcanic minerals and thunder eggs — covers geology, mineralogy, and Chihuahuan Desert ecology in an active field-collection setting.

Ruins trail of Pecos
Historical
Ruins trail of Pecos
Pecos

Pecos National Historical Park ruins trail — covers ancestral Pueblo civilization, Spanish colonial history, and Southwest archaeology.

Santa Fe National Forest
Nature
Santa Fe National Forest
Los Alamos

Vast national forest near Los Alamos covering diverse ecosystems — supports field study in ecology, geology, and high-desert geography.

Sunspot
Science
Sunspot
Sunspot

National Solar Observatory visitor site at Sacramento Peak — covers solar astronomy, spectroscopy, and telescope optics with public exhibits.

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