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• Belly Dance with Seneé and Sonia Flores: 7
to 8 p.m. Thursdays through March 5 for
ages 9 to adult; mother/daughter teams welcome.
• Digital Photography: 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Thursdays through March 5, ages 9 to adult.
Cost: $30 ($15 museum members).
Insights Science Center — Insights plans
to move to a new permanent home later in
January at 321 Park Street (the former Alamo
School). Opening date to be announced.
Information: insightselpaso.org or 534-0000.
The science center was established in 1980.
Its former location in downtown El Paso was
demolished to make room for the new baseball
stadium.
Los Portales Museum and Visitor
Center — 1521 San Elizario Road. The muse-
um is operated by the San Elizario Genealogy
and Historical Society, and is housed in an
1850s Territorial-style building across from the
San Elizario church. It offers gifts, family trees,
historical artifacts as well as information on the
“First Thanksgiving” and the Salt War of 1877.
Hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday through
Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. Admission is
free. Information: 851-1682.
Magoffin Home State Historic Site —
1120 Magoffin. The adobe home, built around
1875 by Joseph Magoffin, tells the story of a
multicultural family that influenced the development of the Southwest borderlands. It includes
authentic art and furnishings reflecting the daily
lives of the Magoffin family.
Visitors can now begin their tour at the new
Visitor Center across the street. Hours are 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Tours
on the hour; last tour at 4 p.m. Spanish language tours offered Thursday through Saturday;
call for availability. Cost: $4 ($3 ages 6-18).
Group tours available with advance registration.
Information: 533-5147 or
visitmagoffinhome.com.
Casa Magoffin Compañeros host Second
Saturday workshops in the new visitor center.
The Feb. 14 workshop, “Family Soap Making,”
is 1 to 4 p.m. for children age 8 and up. Make
scented chocolate soap for a valentine gift and
learn a bit about the history of soap making.
Registration required by Feb. 11. Cost: $12;
cash or checks only.
An exhibit of Early El Paso Artists runs
through Feb. 26, in the Visitor Center.
Admission is free.
National Border Patrol Museum and
Memorial Library — 4315 Transmountain
Drive. The museum, in Northeast El Paso just
west of U.S. 54, features the history of the
Border Patrol with uniforms, equipment, photographs, guns, motor vehicles, airplanes, boats
and other items, including hands-on exhibits for
kids. Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through
Saturday. Closed Sunday, Monday and major
holidays. Admission is free. Information: 7596060 or borderpatrolmuseum.com.
San Elizario Veterans Museum and
Memorial Walk — 1501-B Main Street in
San Elizario. Hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Wednesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. Admission
is free. Information: Ann Lara, 345-3741 or Ray
Borrego, 383-8529.
Tigua Indian Cultural Center — 305
Yaya Lane, at Socorro Road east of the Ysleta
Mission. The center features a museum on the
Tigua tribe, offering a glimpse of five centuries
February 2015
of Pueblo history and tradition. Hours are 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday.
Admission is free. Information: 859-7700, ysletadelsurpueblo.org.
War Eagles Air Museum — 8012 Airport
Road, Doña Ana County Airport, Santa Teresa.
Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through
Sunday. Admission: $5; $4 senior citizens and
military; free for children under 12.
Information: (575) 589-2000 or war-eagles-airmuseum.com.
Ford Tri-Motor Airplane Rides are offered 8
a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday through Sunday, Feb.
5-7. Ride in a 1929 Ford Tri-Motor, the original
airliner, hosted by the War Eagles Air Museum
and EAA chapter 555. There will be experimental and vintage aircraft on display as well as
the Ford Mustang club. Cost for ride: $70 ($50
age 17 and younger) in advance. Information:
flytheford.org.
Las Cruces area
Free activities based on the PBS program
“FETCH! With Ruff Ruffman” are 10 to noon
Saturdays (48 hour advance RSVP encouraged).
Pre-K Thursdays are 9 a.m. every Thursdays,
for ages 6 and younger.
Science Cafe round table discussions are 5:30
p.m. the last Thursday of the month. Use
Water Street entrance after 5 p.m.
Foundation for Las Cruces Museums will host
an informal “The Birds, The Bees & The
Brews” event with refreshments, conversation
and presentations on animal courting behaviors
6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27, for ages 21 and
older Admission is free; must have valid ID to
enter.
Las Cruces Railroad Museum — The
museum is in the Santa Fe train depot, 351 N.
Mesilla, (at Las Cruces avenue west of the
Downtown Mall). Hours are 9 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. Thursday through Saturday. Admission is
free; donations encouraged. Information: (575)
647-4480 or museums.las-cruces.org.
Showing in February is New Mexico
Watercolor Society-Southern Chapter’s
“Wheels & Wings: Tracing Our Heritage,” with
works by 13 artists. Opening reception is 5 to 7
p.m. Friday, Feb. 6.
• Family Game Day is 10 a.m. to noon the second Saturday of each month. Families can try
out early 20th century games.
• Toddler Story Time is 11 a.m. the third
Saturday of each month. Listen to books like
Thomas the Tank Engine, and enjoy a related
activity. Children of all ages welcome. RSVP
requested
• Brown Bag lectures are noon to 1 p.m. the
second Tuesday of the month.
• Rail Readers Book Club meets at 11 a.m. the
third Wednesday of each month.
Please see Page 34
Branigan Cultural Center — Branigan
Building, 501 N. Main, (Downtown Mall) Las
Cruces. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday
through Saturday. Admission is free.
Information: (575) 541-2154, lascruces.org/museums or on Facebook.
Showing Feb. 1-28 is “Mesilla Valley Scenes,”
works in oil, pastel, acrylic and watercolor by
the Artamants Painting Group.
Showing Feb. 6-March 21: “Number,
please...” the 2015 quilt challenge exhibit by
Las Colcheras Quilt Guild. This year’s quilters
must incorporate numbers into the titles,
designs, and repetitions found in the quilt.
Opening reception for both exhibits is 5 to 7
p.m. Friday, Feb. 6. The center will host guided tours of the quilt show for adults 10 a.m. to
noon Saturday, Feb. 7.
Also part of the Las Cruces Connects Arts
weekend on Feb. 7 are two family workshops:
• 10 a.m.: “Vamos a Explorar,” Spanish-language program on painting techniques for kids.
• 11 a.m.: Painting workshop, on new painting
materials and techniques.
The center will host music and spoken word
events 1 to 2 p.m. these Saturdays:
• Feb. 14: Alma D’Arte Choir
• Feb. 21: Las Cruces Ukes perform beloved
tunes of days gone by.
• Feb. 28: “For the Love of Lit” poetry readings with Sin Fronteras.
The Borderland Fridas will host a Retablos
workshop 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21,
in celebration of the Spanish Colonial Arts
Society’s Santero Market coming to Las Cruces.
Participants will be provided with an unfinished
wood retablo base and paints to create their
own retablo. A guest speaker will discuss the
importance of the retablo in devotional art
along with the history and meaning of this New
Mexican devotional and cultural artform.
Admission is free, but reservations required:
[email protected] or Pamela
Enriquez-Courts, (575) 520-5246.
Diné/Walatowa tribe member SABA presents
“Las Crossing Signs (aka Arrowsoul Art)” at 1
p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12. Admission is free.
Las Cruces Museum of Nature and
Science — 411 N. Main in the Las Cruces
Downtown Mall. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday through Saturday, plus 5 to 7 p.m.
during the First Friday Ramble. Information:
(575) 522-3120 or las-cruces.org/museums.
Animal Encounters are 1 p.m. Saturdays.
“Dinos A to Z” presentations are 3 p.m.
Fridays. Family Science Saturdays are 10 a.m.
every Saturday, for all ages. A behind-thescenes tour of the nature center is 5 to 7 p.m.
the first Friday of the month.
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