Family Summer Fun Guide to the Museum

Summer Family Fun Guide

TO THE MUSEUM

Create

THINK OF ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM AS A

SUMMERTIME FAMILY DESTINATION—a place to create. Families can find inspiration for at-home projects, in-person family-oriented classes (free with admission), or enjoy a cool (in many ways) environment on a hot summer afternoon.

INSPIRATION

VISIT THE FAMILY GALLERY as you exit the exhibition Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche. Families gather at the tables where Museum-provided supplies and instructions help young and old alike to create art projects based on the exhibition. Take it home to remind you of your visit.

LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO DO ON A

SATURDAY AFTERNOON from 1-2:30? Drop in to Family Art Workshops, where the Museum’s expert, fun, and friendly art instructors are on hand to help families fool around with art. There’s a new theme every week, many inspired by the Museum’s exhibitions and collections.

Learn

EXPLORE THE MUSEUM’S

COLLECTIONS. Pick up the Museum’s Art Cards to use as a conversation-starter around the family dinner table. Art Cards, located next to select pieces in the La Malinche, provide tips for looking at art.

MUSEUM SCAVENGER HUNT

ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM COLLECTS ARTWORKS AND

OBJECTS THAT TELL THE STORIES of our city, state, and region. It displays some of these works in Common Ground: Art in New Mexico; Only in Albuquerque; and the Sculpture Garden (a great place for a summer picnic).

Find these in Common Ground.

SEE

What do these works have in common? What colors, shapes, lines, and textures do you see? What kinds of animals?

SCULPTURE GARDEN

EXPLORE OUTDOORS AT THE MUSEUM.

Check out these sculptures and envision how the artist might have made them. For sculptures of people or animals, try to act out the pose yourself.

THINK

What does this artwork mean to you?

CONNECT

What does this artwork have to do with New Mexico? Or your family and culture?

Can you locate

the mountains and river on the floor map? Can you find where you live?

What can you find

in the galleries that is related to transportation, both old and new? (Hint: carreta, trains, planes, cars)

Find the Duke of Alburquerque’s Coat of Arms:

Learn about it by using the touchscreen, and then make your own. What symbols would it include?

FACING PAGE: Felipe Archuleta, Coyote, 1977. Carved and painted wood with glass marbles and rubber. 38 × 64 × 10 in. Albuquerque Museum, gift of Mary and David Corley. PC2008.28.1; Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Herding, 1985. Oil on canvas, 66 x 84 in. Albuquerque Museum, museum purchase, 1985 General Obligation Bonds, PC1986.98.1.

THIS PAGE, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Nora Naranjo Morse, Numbe Whageh, earthen work with native plant garden featuring boulders from nearby Pueblo, collection of Albuquerque Public Art (1% for Arts Funds, City of Albuquerque) PAC.2005.83.2 ; Jesus Bautista Moroles, Floating Mesa, 1982. Texas pink granite, stainless steel, and fountain mechanism, 264 × 60 × 60 in. Albuquerque Museum purchase, 1% for Art Funds, City of Albuquerque, PC1984.24.; Dan Ostermiller, Les Bears, 1991, bronze, ed. 2/12, Albuquerque Museum, museum purchase, 1991 General Obligation Bonds and the Albuquerque Museum Foundation, PC1992.81.1; Eddie Dominguez, Correspondence, 1990. Wooden door, copper, wood, postcards, 81 x 36 x 2 in. Albuquerque Museum purchase PC1992.12.1; Tom Palmore, Survivor, 1995. Oil on canvas. Museum purchase, 1993 General Obligations Bonds PC1995.30.1; Michael A. Naranjo, The Dancer, 1990. Bronze, 75 × 38 × 32 in. Albuquerque Museum purchase, 1987 General Obligation Bonds PC1990.25.1; Teri Greeves, Kiowa, Rez Pride/Rez Girls: Beaded Shoes, 2009, beaded high-top tennis shoes, Albuquerque Museum, gift of Friends of Killer Heels, PC2015.23.1.1-2