Gallup Cultural Center

In 1996 the City of Gallup turned to the Southwest Indian Foundation requesting the Foundation take possession of the historic and newly renovated Sante Fe Depot. The City asked the Foundation to turn the building into a Cultural Center. Our concept for the Cultural Center is modeled on the Public Square, where the community, school children, and visitors can gather together for forums, lectures, and celebrate the extraordinarily diverse heritages of our region.

We wish to invite you to this wonderful historic building so that you too can enjoy the many exhibits we have put together - trains, weaving, sandpainting, Historic Route 66, silversmithing, and more come to life in the Storyteller Museum with in depth interviews with experts of that specific field.

Museum

Culture is an excellent introduction to the complexity and diversity of the Native American cultures of the region. Here, you can listen to the stories and songs that tell of a visit to the museum of Indian arts & origins and the long history of the Native people of the Southwest, witness the development of new forms of art, or learn about the traditional lives and lifeways of the Southwest's indigenous populations.

The museum reflects the collections of the Southwest Indian Foundation Arts and is a unique touring experience. The El Navajo Hotel was famous for its many sandpaintings. The museum provides visitors with a wide array of Native pottery, basketry, rug weaving, kachina dolls, model trains, exhibits on silversmithing and traditional sandpaintings. Donated by local families.

The exhibitions at the museum of the Gallup Cultural Center showcase the museums traditional approach to the interpretation of Native American Arts & Culture. Developed through active partnership between Native and non-Native people, the museum's permanent message that Indian cultures are complex diverse, steeped in Tradition and very much alive.

The museum is open Monday through Friday from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. The museum is located at 201 E. Historic Highway 66, Gallup, New Mexico. Take I-40 West, exit 26, continue West on US Hwy 66. The Gallup Cultural Center's museum is located downtown and within easy walking distance of the many shops along Cole Porter's Grand Old Highway.

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