Harwood Museum of Art 238 Ledoux St., Taos (575) 758-2052; harwoodmuseum.org Winter hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday, noon-5 p.m. Closed Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. Admission $10; $8 seniors/students with ID, free to locals Sundays. s Dec. 6, 7 p.m., The Big Read Film: “Hecho en Mexico/Made in Mexico�; free. s Dec. 7, 5-7 p.m. Lighting Ledoux — join the museums, galleries and boutiques on Ledoux Street for a block party open to pedestrians only, lit by luminarias and farolitos. Cookies, hot chocolate, hot cider and Father Winter at the Harwood. s Dec. 14-15, 5 p.m., TCMG Celebrates Sagittarius composers Beethoven, Berlioz, Joseph Jongen and Laupheimer, plus Harwood’s 90th Anniversary with Beethoven’s “Archduke Trio� and more. Tickets $20, $16 members, $12 children under 16. See taoschambermusicgroup. org.
La Hacienda de los MartĂnez 708 Hacienda Way, Taos (575) 758-1000 Holiday hours: Daily, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Admission $8, discounts for seniors, children and students. s Memories in Lights, Sunday (Dec. 8), 3-5 p.m. officially starts the Christmas season with a tree lighting, entertainment and light refreshments. A drawing for a handmade quilt is at 4 p.m.
Millicent Rogers Museum 1504 Millicent Rogers Road, Taos (575) 758-2462; millicentrogers.org Winter hours: Tuesday-Sundays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed Mondays. Museum Ambassadors Program admits Taos County residents free with ID. Non-resident admission: adults $10, ages 60-and-over $8, students 16-21 w/ ID and military $6, ages 6-16 $2, under age 6 free; Tour groups of 10 or more, call for discount. s Holiday Fiesta for families is Saturday (Dec. 7), from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. This exciting event features dozens of hands-on activities and performances from dancing to retablo-making for children ages 4-12; free.
Kit Carson Home and Museum 113 Kit Carson Road, Taos 2 0 1 3
(575) 758-4945 kitcarsonhomeand museum.com Holiday hours: Daily, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. through February (closed Christmas and Dec. 31-Jan. 1). Step back into the 1850s at Taos’ oldest museum with: Guided living history interpretive tours, newly renovated buildings (now more accessible), a large gift store and book store, new exhibits and storyboards and an award winning history channel video.
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Taos Art Museum at Fechin House 227 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, just North of Kit Carson Park (575) 758-2690, ext 101; taosartmuseum. org Winter hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission, $8 adults, $7 seniors, $5 students, free for children (under 12); groups of 10 or more, $6 each. Free to Taos residents on Sundays. Fechin studio, grounds, and museum store, and parking are free. December discounts in the Museum Store include Christmas-themed toys, ornaments, and decorations, plus jewelry. s Dec. 11, 5:30 p.m.: Special holiday Learning-the-Collections program offers “Watching the Ballgame� by Oscar Edmund Berninghaus (American artist, 1874-1952) in a more intimate examination of the painting and its stories than viewers can get in any exhibition. Free for members at the Supporter level and above, $4 for members at the Individual, Family, or Friend levels; $8 for nonmembers. Holiday refreshments and conversation in a small group of 20. RSVP required (575) 758-2690, ext 101. s Dec. 14, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.: A special holiday celebration including refreshments and an extra 10 percent off everything in the museum Store: At 2 p.m., fourth to sixth graders enjoy a special “Off the Wall� holiday art event to see artwork up close, inspiring storytelling and imagination. Members’ children free admission; $4 for nonmembers. RSVP required due to limit of 10, at (575) 758-2690, extension 101. Housing the art of early 20th-century Taos, the Taos Art Museum at Fechin House is set in the historic home Russian artist Nicolai Fechin built for his family between 1927-1933. Fechin carved and shaped the adobe buildings into a harmonic marriage of Russian, American Indian and Spanish motifs. The collections feature paintings by the masters of the Taos Society of Artists (1915 -1927) and their followers, who established Taos as a premier destination for American art.
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