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The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology will take part in the annual Hanging of the Greens on The University of New Mexico campus to celebrate the start of the holiday season. Everyone is invited to the Maxwell for this family-friendly event on Friday, Dec....

Every Navajo rug is a unique piece that starts with raising the sheep and goats, which are then shorn and the wool carded, spun, dyed, and finally woven, all by hand, into a rug using traditional, contemporary, and historic themes. Rugs are not just...

To promote the community well-being, and fun while drawing in new museum visitors, the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico is hosting its first ever board game night Thursday, Sept. 26, from 7 to 10 p.m. Pizza and soft drinks...

The University of New Mexico Maxwell Museum of Anthropology is the midst of its annual student membership drive, in which it gives away free memberships to the first 75 UNM or CNM students who sign up in person at its museum store before Friday, Aug. 30....

ALL REZ: Kéyah, Hooghan, K'é, Iiná / Land, Home, Kinship, Life, an innovative, traveling, site-specific, experimental photography exhibition and museological project at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico, will close with a...

The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology of the University of New Mexico has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for a Grants for Arts Projects award of $36,000. This grant will support ALL REZ: Kéyah, Hooghan, K'é, Iiná / Land, Home,...

A memorial service for Professor Emeritus Jacob Jerome Brody, known to friends and family as Jerry, will be held May 17 on the campus of The University of New Mexico. Brody had a distinguished history at UNM...

Imposed upon Navajo people in the 1930s, the brutal Livestock Reduction Program proposed to eliminate over half of Diné livestock herds. Against the backdrop of the Dust Bowl and the Hoover Dam, livestock reduction was an extreme response to reports of...

The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico is hosting a Family Day Event focused on Exploring Human Evolution. The event is part of Maxwell’s mission of working toward a greater understanding of the fullness of human experiences...

The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology’s annual Ancestors lecture returns with a talk by The University of New Mexico Associate Professor Sherry Nelson. Nelson will speak about Becoming Human: The Early Stages from Ape to Hominin. The lecture will be...