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Museums:

Art: Casa San Ysidro, Center for Contemporary Arts, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Harwood Museum, Indian Arts Research Center at the School of American Research, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Millicent Rogers Museum, Museum Hill, Museum of Fine Arts, The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Museum of International Folk Art, Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, New Mexico Creates, New Mexico State University Art Museum, SITE Santa Fe, Taos Art Museum, Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, University of New Mexico Art Museum

History: Alamogordo Museum of History, The Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, Billy the Kid Museum, City of Las Vegas Museum/Rough Rider Memorial Collection, Cleveland Roller Mill Museum, E. L. Blumenschein Home and Museum, El Rancho de las Golondrinas, Farmington Museum, Grandma's Trading Post and Museum, Historic Percha Bank, Hubbard Museum of the American West, Kit Carson Home and Museum, La Hacienda de los Martinez, Los Alamos Historical Museum, Palace of the Governors, Sacramento Mountains Historical Museum & Pioneer Village, Silver City Museum, Smokey Bear Historical Park

National History, Science and Space: Albuquerque Biological Park, Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum, Bradbury Science Museum, Explora, Ghost Ranch Living Museum, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, Mesalands Dinosaur Museum, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, New Mexico Museum of Space History

Special Interests: American International Rattlesnake Museum, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, International UFO Museum, Museum of Turquoise, National Atomic Museum, National Hispanic Cultural Center, New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum, New Mexico State University Zuhl Collection, NMOCA,Old Coal Mine Museum, Santa Fe Children's Museum, The Unser Racing Museum, Tinkertown Museum, U.S. Southwest Soaring Museum, War Eagles Air Museum

Billy the Kid Museum

Southeast region of New Mexico While many regions would like to claim Billy the Kid as their outlaw, Lincoln County is widely known as “Billy the Kid Country.” Though he rests at the Fort Sumner Military Cemetery in Fort Sumner, his legend is alive and well at the Billy the Kid Museum. Here you’ll find 60,000 relics of the historic past, including Billy the Kid’s rifle, chaps and spurs, the original "Wanted" poster, and even locks of his hair! Items of early 20th century life are also on display—check out the horse-drawn hearse and the homestead cabin exhibit. If it’s take-home paraphernalia you want, they’ve got you covered—T-shirts with Billy the Kid on the front and his tombstone on the back, postcards, posters, books, and even the Billy the Kid WANTED and funeral posters. Make sure to visit his grave site—he’s buried just a few steps away. His tombstone has been stolen three times since the 1940s, so it’s enclosed by a metal cage, but you can easily confirm that he’s under the ground!