What’s New u DR. CYNTHIA ANN BETTISON
WNMU Museum Reopens in a Stunningly Renovated Fleming Hall
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ave you been to the WNMU museum recently? If not, GO!! e remodeling of Fleming Hall, the display of Mimbres cultural artifacts, the entire experience will leave you in awe. Not simply because of what you see, but what you feel. WRITTEN BY MIKE ROWSE PHOTOGRAPHED BY JAY HEMPHILL this page, opposite: The interior of the Western New Mexico University Museum at Fleming Hall, is bright and open after its transformation. Dr. Cynthia Bettison, who has been Director of the WNMU Museum for nearly 30 years, cares for a vessel in the university’s NAN Ranch Collection. top: The WNMU Museum houses a wide range of prehistoric and historic materials, including Mimbres and Southwestern pottery, basketry, weavings and stone artifacts, like those shown here.