Item Description

The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History has served as the city's cultural center since 1967. Located in the heart of Old Town, The Museum maintains a reputation for being one of the leading institutions for art, history and culture in the Southwest.  And the winning bidder gets a year’s membership for two adults or for you and a guest and a $20 gift certificate for the Gallery Store and a private tour of Casa San Ysidro: The Gutiérrez-Minge House!

Your membership includes:

• Free admission to The Museum and Casa San Ysidro (2 adults + guests under 18)
• Invitations (2) to members-only openings
• Free Family Art Workshops on Saturdays
• Free lectures on art, culture & history
• 10% discount in the Gallery Store
• eCommunications
• abqmuseum quarterly magazine

Whether you're a local seeking to be immersed in art or history, or a visitor wanting to experience Albuquerque's premier cultural institution, be sure to include a visit to The Museum.

In addition to world-class exhibitions, The Museum offers a wide variety of programming including educational classes for children of all ages; live performances in its amphitheater; docent-guided tours in The Museum, its Sculpture Garden and Old Town; The Gallery Store and The Museum's café, Slate at The Museum.

The Albuquerque Museum of Art also includes the historic Casa San Ysidro: The Gutiérrez-Minge House, located in the village of Corrales, just north of Albuquerque. This original Greek revival home, built by the Gutiérrez family in the 1870s, includes Alan and Shirley Minge's recreation of a 19th century rancho, complete with a small family chapel, a central plazuela and an enclosed corral.

And for YOU dear winning bidder - a private tour of the Casa San Ysidro with the new site manager, Carol Kennis Lopez for you and up to five of your friends.  She is also a regular KUNM listener and member who loves Afternoon Freeform so you will be in good hands.

Carol Kennis Lopez brings more than twenty years of  experience working in museums and historic sites to her role of site manager for Casa San Ysidro: The Gutiérrez /Minge House. Originally from Colorado where she served at several museums most notably the Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site and the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museumm Carol  has embraced her new community in New Mexico. Besides being a member of KUNM, her memberships include the Albuquerque BioPark, the Albuquerque Museum Foundation, and the Historical Society of New Mexico. Her academic focus of agricultural history has led her to an appreciation and some first-hand experience with modern as well as historic farming and ranching practices. She loves working in the Village of Corrales and preserving and sharing New Mexico’s rich agricutlrual and artistic traditions with the community.

Can't wait to see Casa San Ysidro? Go this Saturday, May 18th!

Heritage Day Offers Fun Family Activities

19^th Century Lifestyle on Display at Casa San Ysidro Museum Event

Corrales, New Mexico-Inside the adobe walls of Casa San Ysidro the colors, traditions and music of historic New Mexico spring to life in this free family-oriented event. On Saturday, May 18 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. visitors may talk with a traditional blacksmith as he works the forge, watch a bread baking demonstration in the adobe horno, and see how generations of New Mexicans spun wool from churro and other sheep. A traditional Arts Mercado will feature well known artists Charlie Carrillo, Oscar and Bernandette Caraveo, Jimmy Trujillo, Jerry Montoya and Robert and Viola Chavez.

Fun performances include Loren Kahn’s Puppet Theatre production of Floppo, the Spanish Frog Prince at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., and traditional New Mexican music by Frank McCulloch y sus Amigos at 3 p.m.

At Noon and 2 p.m. Ron and Pat Rundstrom and their burros will demonstrate how to pack these hardy critters as the early pioneers and prospectors did. Throughout the day visitors may explore the Museum to see how New Mexican families lived long ago.

Located at 973 Old Church Road in Corrales

Item Special Note

$5 per shipping address for all gift certificates and tickets unless the bidder chooses pick up options listed in your winning bid confirmation at the close of the auction. This is to cover priority mail and delivery confirmation. Details for arranging your tour will be included. You will need to arange the tour at a mutually agreeable time and the offer expires June 14, 2014.