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Albuquerque Plaza built. American International Rattlesnake Museum opens. Population: 384,736. [35] 1991 – National Museum of Nuclear Science & History chartered. 1993 – ¡Explora! Science Center and Children's Museum opens. 1994 Albuquerque Poetry Slam begins. [36] 1996 April: City website online. [37] [38]
Antoine Samuel Predock (/ ˈ p r iː d ɒ k / PREE-dok; June 24, 1936 – March 2, 2024) was an American architect based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.He was the principal of Antoine Predock Architect PC, the studio he founded in 1967.
The history of Albuquerque, New Mexico dates back up to 12,000 years, beginning with the presence of Paleo-Indian hunter-gatherers in the region. Gradually, these nomadic people adopted a more settled, agricultural lifestyle and began to build multi-story stone or adobe dwellings now known as pueblos by 750 CE.
George Gustav Heye (1874 – January 20, 1957) was an American collector of Native American artifacts in the Western Hemisphere, particularly in North America. He founded the Museum of the American Indian, and his collection became the core of the National Museum of the American Indian.
Oct. 20—James C. "Jim" Moore retired from his job as director of the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History in 2005. But step into his handsome South Valley house, and you realize immediately ...
Edgar L. Hewett, founder and first director of the School of American Research and the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe, was a leading promoter. He began the Santa Fe Fiesta in 1919 and the Southwest Indian Fair in 1922 (now known as the Indian Market).
Maisel's Indian Trading Post was located in the city of Albuquerque, county of Bernalillo, in the U.S. state of New Mexico.It was added to the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties and the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bernalillo County, New Mexico in 1993. [2]
When the National Museum was created in 1989, a law governing repatriation was drafted specifically for the museum, the National Museum of the American Indian Act, upon which NAGPRA was modeled. [38] In addition to repatriation, the museum engages in dialogues with tribal communities regarding the appropriate curation of cultural heritage items.