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Museum of Archaeology & Material Culture
Museum of Archaeology & Material Culture Review
In Cedar Crest, just off NM 14 a couple of miles south of Sandia Park, the modest but nicely laid-out Museum of Archaeology & Material Culture chronicles archaeological finds and contains artifacts dating from the Ice Age to the Battle of Wounded Knee. Exhibits shed light on prehistoric man, buffalo hunting, a history of turquoise mining in north-central New Mexico, and the 1930s excavations of Sandia Cave (about 15 mi away) that offered evidence of some of the earliest human life in North America.
- Address: 22 Calvary Rd., ; turn west 5 mi north of I-40 Exit 175 in Cedar Crest, Sandia Park, 87008 | Map It
- Phone: 505/281-2005
- Cost: $3
- Hours: May--Oct., daily noon--7
- Location: Sandia Park
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