Museum Hill

The life-size bronze sculpture Journey’s End, commemorating the Santa Fe Trail and the hardy mule teams that traversed it, marks the entrance to Camino Lejo, a strip of major exhibition spaces on Santa Fe’s [1] southeast side.

With the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture [2] just next door to the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art [3], it’s an interesting opportunity to compare the two depictions of New Mexican culture and history.

One of the city’s best tourist deals, a $18 museum pass, good for four days, grants access to three of the institutions on the hill (the fourth is free), as well as to the Palace of the Governors [4] and the New Mexico Museum of Art [5] on the plaza. You can buy it at any of the five participating museums.

Or buy a $12 pass to both the Museum of International Folk Art [6] and the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture [2].