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Aztec New Mexico - Ruins and Museum - July 2018
Memories of the Aztec Ruins National Monument in our family date back to 1957, when we moved from Wyoming to Farmington, New Mexico. I remember seeing an excavated skeleton in one of the rooms in the north wall of the larger ruin. It was under glass and illuminated in the floor. It's interesting to see the different styles of construction that were used by the various occupants of the community.
The Aztec Museum is a bit of a “sleeper” in that the entrance is just a little house along main street, with a small sign; easy to miss while driving by. The house is two stories full of artifacts of all types from the local area. After going downstairs and out the back door, you enter a reconstructed village about a square city block in size. The village features structures from a homestead cabin to blacksmith shop, general store, chapel, county records office and several others from the late 1800's, and even an old drilling rig used in the early days of the local oilfield.
The Aztec Museum is a bit of a “sleeper” in that the entrance is just a little house along main street, with a small sign; easy to miss while driving by. The house is two stories full of artifacts of all types from the local area. After going downstairs and out the back door, you enter a reconstructed village about a square city block in size. The village features structures from a homestead cabin to blacksmith shop, general store, chapel, county records office and several others from the late 1800's, and even an old drilling rig used in the early days of the local oilfield.
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