Treasures of Devotion/Tesoros de Devoción
Treasures of Devotion/Tesoros de Devoción contains bultos, retablos, and crucifijos, dating from the late 1700s to 1900. They demonstrate how European stylistic traditions and iconography were combined with new palettes, different styles, and distinctive regional decorative designs that transformed New Mexican santo making into a unique hybrid. Highlighting the exhibit will be esoteric pieces such as the Crucifixion in a Large Nicho by the Laguna Santero and La Santísima Trinidad, a wood retablo with an applied paper painting of the Holy Trinity.

The pieces in Treasures of Devotion/Tesoros de Devoción show the diverse artistic responses that occurred as santeros answered the demand from their respective communities to bring devotional images into their churches, homes, and lives. The bultos, retablos, and crucifijos presented reveal a visual documentation of New Mexico's cultural heritage.

The exhibit, once part of the private collection of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Frank, was recently purchased by the Department of Cultural Affairs with an appropriation made by the NM State Legislature and approved by Governor Bill Richardson for the Palace of the Governors, New Mexico History Museum in order to preserve New Mexico's cultural heritage. It is one of the defining traditional art forms of the region and a source of pride and identity for New Mexican Hispanics.
On long term display

The Palace of the Governors
A monumental adobe structure that housed the residence and offices of governors from its construction ca. 1609 until it became the state history museum in 1909. Visit the museum to learn about 400 years of life in New Mexico in exhibitions and period rooms.
Permanent exhibition

The Palace Press
An award winning working exhibit of 19th and 20th century printing equipment and techniques. Still used to create unique hand-crafted books, cards, and other book arts.
Permanent exhibition

Portal Native American Artisans Program
A daily, regulated market where New Mexico Pueblo, Navajo and Apache artisans display and sell their handmade jewelry, pottery and crafts under the Portal of the Palace.

Segesser Hide Paintings
Two magnificent 18th century Spanish Colonial paintings on tanned hides, representing a rare example of the earliest known depictions of colonial life and contact between Santa Fe presidial soldiers and Plains Indians.
Permanent exhibition

Lasting Impressions: Private Presses of New Mexico
A walk through New Mexico literary history into the world of the private press, where art meets technology and personal expression reigns supreme.
» See the exhibition online at www.privatepress.org

Album Amicorum
A new exhibition Album Amicorum: Gems of Friendship presents current work by twenty-one artists and also features historical marbled papers from the Palace collections.
» See the exhibition online at www.palaceofthegovernors.org/album