Experts' Choice Award Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
What the experts agree on
This hogan-shaped museum on Museum Hill houses one of the world's most comprehensive collections of Navajo and Pueblo jewelry alongside exquisite textiles, basketry, and contemporary Native American art in an intimate, high-quality setting.
“An incredible collection of 19th- and 20th-century baskets, pottery, sculpture, weavings, metalwork, photography, paintings... and typically fascinating changing exhibits.”
– Fodor's
Lonely Planet "Mary Cabot established this museum in 1937 to showcase Navajo ceremonial art, and its major strength continues to be exquisite Navajo textiles." Full review
Michelin Guide 1 Star
"Home of The National Collection of Contemporary Indian Art, this provocative museum presents works of Native Americans including Alaskan Eskimos." Full review
Michelin Guide 0 Stars
"This small independent museum is built in the eight-sided shape of a Navajo hogan, its door facing east toward the rising sun." Full review
Michelin Guide 2 Stars
"The Navajo-style house hosts temporary exhibitions of modern and contemporary Native American art, but also and especially the most important collection of Pueblo and Navajo jewellery in the world." Full review
Independent "The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian houses intriguing artefacts from jewellery to toys and wood carvings (£6)"
Independent "The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian makes a study of that wearable art, housing a centre that focuses on silversmithing, lapidary and historic and contemporary southwestern jewellery, alongside one of the most comprehensive collections of Navajo and Pueblo jewellery in the world"
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Frommer's "Up on Museum Hill, the Wheelwright is a compact but high-quality museum of contemporary and historic Native American art" Full review
Travel + Leisure "At the Wheelwright Museum, visitors will see jewelry, metalwork, carving, basketry, folk art, and textiles of the Navajo and other Native peoples of New Mexico"
The Wall Street Journal "When I was about 10, my grandmother and I spent an afternoon at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian. The museum was nearly empty and we walked through the quiet galleries filled..."
