Tickets! Tickets! New Mexico History Museum!

There's a new show opening up at the New Mexico History Museum (Santa Fe Found, which subject I won't comment on except to say that Albuquerque has never been lost -- or some sort of blarney like that). Okay, actually, it sounds really cool. Here's the deal: We have a family four pack (I love that phrase) of tickets to the New Mexico History Museum. They must be used by the end of the year, and so I guess it's okay to do so to see a show about (sniff) Santa Fe.

Okay, no but really -- major thanks to the Museum for offering us these tickets!

Santa Fe Found: Fragments of Time
New Mexico History Museum
November 20, 2009 - May 21, 2010


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For the tickets (the rules): Can't have won anything from the Fix in the last 30 days. One 4-pack of tickets per winner. Be the first to enter the answer to our question in the comments section below AND to email us your name for use at the ticket window. You must do both, or someone else gets them.

For the tickets (the question): The Museum regularly offers free admission to New Mexicans. What days of the week can New Mexicans attend for free?


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Before construction of the New Mexico History Museum began, a two-year archaeological dig uncovered hints of the Native peoples and Spanish settlers who first encountered one another 400 years ago. More than 800,000 artifacts were unearthed from that downtown Santa Fe site, joining finds from the Baca-Garvisu site (now the Santa Fe Community Convention Center), the Sanchez site (near El Rancho de las Golondrinas) and San Gabriel del Yungue (on the Pueblo of Ohkay Owingeh).

A new exhibition, opening Nov. 20, 2009, at the Palace of the Governors explores the archaeological evidence and historical documentation of Santa Fe before the Spanish arrived, the first colony in San Gabriel del Yungue, the founding of Santa Fe and its first 100 years as New Mexico’s first capital.

Co-curated by Josef Diaz of the New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors and Stephen Post of the DCA/Office of Archaeological Studies, Santa Fe Found collects more than 160 artifacts from four historic sites, along with maps, documents, household goods, weaponry and religious objects. Together, they tell the story of cultural encounters between early colonists and the Native Americans who had long called this place home.


A lecture series accompanies the exhibit. Each one is in the New Mexico History Museum Auditorium. The Thursday evening lectures are free; Saturday afternoon lectures are free with museum admission. The schedule:

Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009, 6-7:30 pm Historian and genealogist José Esquibel, “The Jewish-Converso Lineage of Don Juan de Oñate” A Santa Fe 400th Anniversary lecture

Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009, 2-3:30 pm Stephen Post, assistant director of the New Mexico Office of Archaeological Studies, “ “The Founding of Santa Fe from the Ground Down" -- A "Santa Fe Found" lecture
Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010, 6-7:30 pm Archaeologist Cordelia Snow, New Mexico Historic Preservation Division, “Luxury Goods Transported Over the Camino Real” -- A Santa Fe 400th Anniversary lecture

Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010, 2-3:30 pm Dr. Frances Levine, director of the New Mexico History Museum, “In Her own Voice: Doña Teresa and Intrigue in the Palace” -- A "Santa Fe Found" lecture

Saturday, March 13, 2010, 2-3:30 pm Thomas Chavez, retired Executive Director of the National Hispanic Culture Center and former director of the Palace of the Governors, “Juan Martínez de Montoya and the Establishment of Santa Fe” -- A "Santa Fe Found" lecture

Saturday, April 17, 2010, 2-3:30 pm Robin Farwell Gavin, senior curator of the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, “The Journey of Mayólica” -- A "Santa Fe Found" lecture

Thursday, May 13, 2010, 6-7:30 pm Joseph Sánchez, director of the University of New Mexico Spanish Colonial Research Center and director of the Petroglyph National Monument, “Peralta and the Founding of Santa Fe” -- A Santa Fe 400th Anniversary lecture