Museum Hill, Santa Fe

Four Museums On One Hilltop Campus Southeast Of The Santa Fe Plaza The Museum Of International Folk Art, The Museum Of Indian Arts And Culture, The Wheelwright Museum Of The American Indian And The Museum Of Spanish Colonial Art With A Botanic Garden Alongside · Santa Fe, New Mexico

Four museums share a hilltop about ten minutes southeast of the Santa Fe plaza, and collectively they are stronger than anything downtown. The Museum of International Folk Art holds the largest collection of folk art in the world, most of it from the Girard bequest, and its main hall is around ten thousand figures arranged as villages and processions across a single enormous room - it is the sort of display people remember for decades. Next door the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture covers the Southwest from Chaco to living artists, with material chosen in consultation with the communities it came from. The Wheelwright began as a Navajo ceremonial museum and is built as a hogan. The Museum of Spanish Colonial Art holds the santos, retablos and tinwork of New Mexico's own Hispanic tradition. A botanic garden of native high-desert planting sits between them, and the hilltop plaza has the best view of the city that does not require a walk. Parking is free, which downtown is not.

710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87505, United States

The four museums keep their own hours and are separately ticketed, generally opening late morning and closing in the late afternoon, and at least one of them is closed on a given weekday in most seasons - Mondays catch people out most often. The Santa Fe Botanical Garden on the same hilltop has its own hours and is seasonal in places. The cafe and the plaza between the buildings are open when the museums are.

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