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1956
Founded in 1956 by the family of Millicent Rogers
The museum was founded in 1956 by the family of Millicent Rogers, a granddaughter of one of the original founders of Standard Oil, who moved to Taos in 1947. Her collection of Native American jewelry and weavings influenced Southwestern art and design. Her mother, Mary B. Rogers, donated many of the first pieces of Taos Pueblo art.
The house
A permanent home in 1968, expanded in the 1980s
The museum first opened in a temporary location in the mid-1950s. In 1968 it moved to its permanent site, a home built by Claude J. K. and Elizabeth Anderson in Taos. In the 1980s it was renovated and expanded by the architect Nathaniel A. Owings.
The collection
Native American, Hispanic and Anglo-American art of northern New Mexico
The museum holds Native American, Hispanic and Anglo-American art, with an emphasis on northern New Mexico and Taos. There is prehistoric and modern pottery, a unique collection of pottery by Maria Martinez, paintings, jewelry, textiles and Zuni and Hopi kachina figures. In the 1980s it was the first major New Mexico cultural organization to hold Hispanic art.
Her pieces
More than 1,200 pieces of jewelry and a campaign for Native art
Millicent collected more than 1,200 pieces of Native American and Hispanic jewelry and more than 50 textiles, such as Navajo chief blankets and colcha embroidery. She also used her social connections in the middle of the 20th century to have Native American art classified as historic, which gave it protection and status.
1,200+pieces of jewelry she collected
Day 4, midday
It comes after Taos Pueblo. Then Earthship Biotecture.
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