Attractions

Like very few places, present day Santa Fe is a living link to its past. Tracing the city's history is as easy as walking the picturesque streets of this 400 year old village. The area's Native American culture goes back thousands of years and is alive in the city's art and traditions just as our Hispanic heritage lives in Santa Fe's customs, foods and people.




Santa Fe is also a city of museums, some of the finest of their kind anywhere. The only museum dedicated to an American woman artist of international stature is located downtown. Around the corner is the state's premier collection of historic artifacts housed in the oldest public building in the U.S. The world's most significant museum of Spanish Colonial art opened its doors in 2002. Both a museum with rotating displays of cutting edge contemporary art and another filled with contemporary Native American art have received international attention. Plus, Santa Fe has the largest collection of folk art in the world.