Featuring New Mexican history, and culture exhibits (20th Century). Highlights include the old-style adobe home.
Activities: Tours
Open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
$ (Inexpensive); Reduced Rate for Children
Governor Bent House and Museum and Gallery of Western Art Home of New Mexico's first American governor, early trader, trapper and mountain man. Charles Bent was a highly respected, much loved figure of the Old West. He was a trader and owner of a number of wagon trains on the Santa Fe Trail. He owned trading posts in Santa Fe and Taos and had many dealings with early mountain men. He provided them with supplies and bought their furs and buffaloi hides. He, his brother William, and Ceran St. Vrain built Bent's Fort in Colorado, famous throughout the West as a trading center for the Indians and early mountain men.