Museum sights in Albuquerque
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New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science
The teen-friendly New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science features an Evolator (evolution elevator), which transports visitors through 38 million years of New Mexico's geologic and evolutionary history. The new Space Frontiers exhibit highlights the state's contribution to space exploration, from ancient Chaco observatories to an impressive, full-scale replica of the Mars Rover.
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National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Exhibits examine the Manhattan Project, the history of arms control and the use of nuclear energy as an alternative energy source. Docents here are retired military, and they're very knowledgeable about the exhibits. Take a moment to read the provocative and soul-searching comments in the visitors' journal beside the Hiroshima and Nagasaki display.
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Rattlesnake Museum
You may want to tiptoe past the fangs, scales and rattling tails that inhabit the informative - but slightly unnerving - Rattlesnake Museum southeast of the plaza. From eastern diamondbacks to canebrakes, you won't find more species of rattlesnakes coiled anywhere else in the world. Get a 'certificate of bravery' with admission.
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University of New Mexico
There are 13 museums and galleries, along with loads of public art, packed onto the grounds of the University of New Mexico. This adobe wonderland is also home to a performing arts center and the Tamarind Institute, which helped to save the art of lithography from extinction in the 1960s and ’70s.
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Indian Pueblo Cultural Center
Operated by New Mexico's 19 pueblos, the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center is a must for anyone visiting pueblos. The museum traces the development of Pueblo cultures, exhibits customs and crafts, and features changing exhibits.
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Maxwell Museum of Anthropology
Maxwell Museum of Anthropology will satisfy the cultural anthropologist in you, so make a bee-line for permanent exhibits on people of the southwest and on ancestors, but do check out traveling exhibits and activities for children.
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New Mexico Holocaust & Intolerance Museum
The New Mexico Holocaust & Intolerance Museum emphasizes WWII exhibits, but there are plenty of powerful ones documenting genocides worldwide – from close-to-home Acoma to all-too-familiar Armenia.
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Turquoise Museum
At the Turquoise Museum visitors get an enlightening crash course in determining the value of stones – from high quality to fakes.
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