The oldest and best-known New Mexico pueblo has been designated a World Heritage Site, of enduring value to mankind, by the United Nations. A visit is a step back in time. Although Pueblo Indian ruins are found throughout the Southwest, here the site..

Works by 20C Taos artists-paintings, drawings, sculptures and photography-are displayed at this museum, a fixture since 1923. There are works by noted American Modernists including Marsden Hartley and Richard Diebenkorn, and a Hispanic folk-art colle..

One of the few Spanish Colonial "great houses" open to the public, the fortress-like hacienda was built in 1804 by merchant Don Antonio Severino Martinez. Its windowless adobe walls rise above the west bank of the Rio Pueblo de Taos. Twenty..

Founded by Standard Oil heiress Millicent Rogers (1902-53), this museum exhibits Rogers' own silver and turquoise Indian jewelry, Navajo and Rio Grande weavings. Additional collections include Hispanic religious and domestic arts, and crafts from all..

Carson, a famous frontier scout and Indian agent (1809-68), lived in this 1825 house from 1843 until his death. The museum, in a part of the original house, illustrates Carson's career and frontier life of that era through displays featuring guns, cl..

A founder of the Taos Society, painter Ernest L. Blumenschein (1874-1960) first visited Taos in 1898; he moved here in 1919. His adobe home, built in 1797, demonstrates the artist's lifestyle. The collection includes works by Blumenschein and his wif..

Before he moved to Taos in 1927, Nikolai Fechin (1881-1955) had secured a reputation in his native Russia and in New York as a renaissance man. Securing a huge adobe home, Fechin embellished it with hand-carved doors, furniture, and wood trim to refl..