“It’s a transitory space for the visitor to challenge their expectations,” says Tony Chavarria (Santa Clara Pueblo), the museum’s curator of ethnology. The result is an immersive cultural encounter that is every bit as engrossing and inspirational as its precursor.Īt the exhibit’s entrance, a moody, blue-lit tunnel of emergence evokes the creation stories of tribes across the region. They’ve gathered fresh perspectives and more than 600 objects from the museum’s collections, updated technology, and reimagined ways to tell Indigenous stories from a 21st-century vantage. (Think of it as HNA: The Next Generation.) More than 20 curators and a Native-owned construction crew have worked to revamp and renew the original show. On July 2, the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture opens the moving new iteration of Here, Now and Always. Ladd’s words described an exhibit that celebrated Native culture as a living, breathing, quintessential part of the Southwest, uncontained by glass display cases. Created in partnership with Native American communities across the Southwest, Here, Now and Always debuted in 1997 and centered on Indigenous people as the preeminent authorities on their own history and lifeways.Īs the permanent exhibition at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture until 2019, it presented a richer narrative of the Native experience, told by Indigenous voices from all walks of life instead of Anglo curators. Twenty-five years ago, Ladd’s simple declaration lent itself to Here, Now and Always, an exhibition at Santa Fe’s Museum of Indian Arts & Culture that forever altered the museum system. “I AM HERE," said Zuni Pueblo scholar Edmund J.
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