Millicent Rogers Museum

Founded In 1956 From The Personal Collection Of Millicent Rogers, A Standard Oil Heiress Who Moved To Taos In 1947; Holds The Largest Collection Of Maria Martinez Pottery Anywhere And A Major Southwestern Jewellery Collection · Taos, New Mexico

Millicent Rogers was a Standard Oil heiress and a fixture of New York fashion who arrived in Taos in 1947, largely to get away from a broken love affair, and spent the last six years of her life collecting Native and Hispanic art of the Southwest and wearing enormous quantities of Navajo silver in ways that got photographed and changed how the rest of the country looked at it. Her family opened this museum in 1956 from what she left. It has grown considerably since: the pottery holding includes the largest collection anywhere of work by Maria Martinez of San Ildefonso, who revived the black-on-black technique, along with her family's work across four generations. There is Navajo and Zuni silver, Rio Grande weaving, santos and tinwork, and Hispanic colonial material that most museums treat as an afterthought. It is four miles north of the Taos plaza, and much quieter than anything standing on it.

1504 Millicent Rogers Road, Taos, Taos, New Mexico, 87571, United States

Open most days through the middle of the day and afternoon, with at least one weekday closure in most seasons - Mondays most often - and closed on several major holidays. Winter hours are shorter. The shop keeps the same hours as the museum. Lectures, demonstrations and temporary exhibition openings run on announced dates and are the reason to check the calendar before choosing a day.

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