The only congressionally chartered museum of its kind in the United States, the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History tells the sweeping and often sobering story of the atomic age. Established in 1969 on a military base near Albuquerque and originally known as the atomic museum, it relocated to a purpose-built home in the city's science and technology park in 2009, where it serves as a Smithsonian affiliate and a national resource on nuclear science. The museum's exhibits trace the devel.....

Roy Rogers and Dale Evans played the brand-new coliseum in 1957, and a former governor once showed up with a 145-pound pumpkin - the New Mexico State Fair has been collecting stories since before New Mexico was a state. The fair's home, Expo New Mexico at 300 San Pedro Drive NE in Albuquerque, is a 236-acre state-owned events campus. The fair predates statehood: the first territorial fair ran on 3 October 1881 near the Rio Grande, arriving with the railroad; after decades downtown and a World W.....

A million adobe bricks and seventeen years of stop-start construction produced New Mexico's great all-purpose barn - dedicated with Roy Rogers and Dale Evans playing all nine days of the 1957 State Fair. Tingley Coliseum at 300 San Pedro Drive NE sits on the Expo New Mexico fairgrounds in Albuquerque. The project began in 1940 with Works Progress Administration funds championed by Governor Clyde Tingley, part of the fairgrounds rebuild that revived the New Mexico State Fair after a two-decade l.....