New Mexico History Museum, History museum in Santa Fe, United States

The New Mexico History Museum is a state-run history museum in Santa Fe, part of the Museum of New Mexico system. Its 96,000 square feet of permanent and rotating exhibits trace New Mexico from ancient Native American cultures to the present, across 3½ floors. The campus also holds the Palace of the Governors, the Fray Angélico Chávez History Library and Photo Archives, and the Palace Print Shop & Bindery.

The museum was created because the Museum of New Mexico's artifact collection had outgrown the 400-year-old Palace of the Governors. The new building, costing US$44 million, opened on May 24, 2009, and drew more than 10,000 visitors on its first day. It holds around 20,000 artifacts and is part of the state-run Museum of New Mexico system.

The museum campus includes the Native American Artisans Program, held under the portal of the Palace of the Governors, the 400-year-old building whose collection outgrew it. There, Pueblo and other Native artists sell handmade jewelry, pottery and textiles directly to visitors, a tradition of vendors lining that adobe arcade on the Santa Fe Plaza.

The museum stands on Lincoln Avenue in downtown Santa Fe, next to the Palace of the Governors, and its campus also takes in the Fray Angélico Chávez History Library, the Palace Press and the Photo Archives. The main building has 3½ floors of exhibitions, so allow time to move between levels. The entrance is on the north side of the Palace of the Governors courtyard.

The museum campus also holds the Palace Press, a working print shop in the Palace of the Governors, and the Fray Angélico Chávez History Library with its Photo Archives. The Native American Artisans Program is likewise part of the campus, alongside the main building's 3½ floors of exhibitions.