Museum of Archaeology

I needed to find a post office, so off we went with the gps guiding us up a mountain. We found the post office with no problem and as we headed back towards Albuquerque, we saw a sign for the Museum of Archaeology and Material Culture.


It looked pretty interesting and we couldn't resist. The small, but packed full of treasures, museum was also part of an rv park. We paid our fare and entered the rooms after a brief explanation by the owner. The artifacts and displays covered a 12,000 year Native American timeline written in the natural elements of rock, water and erosion. Other exhibits deal with scientific methodologies used in archaeology.

Thanks to a grant, the history and mining technology of the Turquoise Trail is carefully displayed with much detail presented about the Sandia Cave.

No photography was allowed, but it was a fascinating look at history and how archaeological techniques have changed over the years.