Things to do / Travel Guide
Address:217 Johnson St.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Tel:
(505) 946-1000
Come and enjoy the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, the most visited art museum in the state of New Mexico and the first museum in the United States dedicated to a female artist. Explore the largest single repository of O'Keeffe's work, her expression of "the wideness and wonder of the world as I live in it."
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) was a leading member of one of the avant-garde art movements that blossomed in New York in the 1910s and 1920s. The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum opened to the public in July 1997, and welcomes more than 1,800,000 visitors from all over the world each year.
In addition to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum's permanent collection, there are special exhibitions that are either devoted entirely to O'Keeffe's work or that combine examples of her art with works by related American modernist artists such as Arthur Dove, Helen Frankenthaler, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, and others. The displays are always changing so it is never the same museum twice!
The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum offers a state-of-the-art audio tour, written and narrated by Museum curator and noted O'Keeffe scholar Barbara Buhler Lynes, who is available for each exhibition. The audio tour provides information about each exhibit and how its works relate to the history of modern American art. Check out the museum's short film on the life of O'Keeffe and her best-known works to get a good introduction before the tour.
An added touch to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum is its complimentary, secured lockers where visitors can store their personal belongings during their stay. This makes for a more comfortable and relaxing visit!
The Museum and its Research Center are both Pueblo Revival-style buildings located two blocks from the historic Santa Fe Plaza, accessible from Exit 282 of I-25 as well as Highway 84/285.
From Georgia O'Keeffe Museum:
The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum is dedicated to perpetuating the artistic legacy of Georgia O'Keeffe and to the study and interpretation of American modernism. The Museum's collections, exhibitions, research center, publications, and education programs contribute to scholarly discourse and serve diverse audiences.