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 The rich and varied museum collections at Bandelier National Monument make it one of New Mexico’s most important National Park attractions. The collections found here rival those of any other New Mexico museums. They include objects made by Ancestral Pueblo peoples more than 400 years ago, as well as works by neighboring modern Pueblo peoples. The collection features exhibits ranging from paintings by Pablita Velarde and Helmut Naumer Sr. to Civilian Conservation Corps tinware and woodwork made in the 1930’s.
Thousands of ancestral Pueblo dwellings are found among the pink mesas and sheer-walled canyons of Bandelier National Monument. The best-known archeological sites were inhabited from the 1100’s into the mid-1500s, and earlier groups had used the area for thousands of years before them. Bandelier National Monument was established in 1916 to protect and preserve the sites occupied by the Ancestral Pueblo on the Pajarito Plateau for more than 4 centuries.
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