hubbard museum of the american west

It is a nice museum! Coming up it doesn't look like a museum but it is nice to give you an idea of what happened in the area. They also have a good gift shop. You have to like history to go.

They really need to change their website. It says that they are open daily. They are actually closed Thursdays and Fridays. We drove two hours with my inlaws the day after thanksgiving specifically to go there. I was pretty disappointed. Please change your website.

What was a skating rink is now a museum of one person's collections. All the different carriages were educational, and there is an excellent area for the little ones to climb a wagon and play "pioneer."

It was ok. I think you really have to be crazy about old wagons,guns and housewares to really enjoy this museum.

This is a real hidden gem. Mostly put together through the collection of a wealthy eastern woman who came west in the early 20th century, the collection features an impressive collection of wagons, chuck wagons, carriages from the late nineteenth century. Also an interesting collection of household items, photos and firearms.

My whole family enjoyed the museum, even my 2 year old. They have a little of everything for all ages to look at.

This was our 3rd visit to the Hubbard Museum. In the past we have walked the entire museum and seen the American West exhibits which are very good. This visit we went for the Quilt and Fabric Arts Show, "A Walk in the Wild". I have been to a lot of quilt shows but this one took the cake! It is hard to describe the awesomeness of the works of art made from fabric. We were impressed by the portraits and landscapes created using quilting methods. My favorite was a wall hanging of a dinosaur depicting the dinosaur in a setting as he may have lived on one side and on the other his skeleton in an arid dessert setting.

I was expecting this museum to be a lot bigger but still a very nice place to visit. Area for kids to play dress up and get into a wagon is great!!! Coupons available online!

Thought that this museum will be just an ordinary one. My hubby and I are not into south western culture,glad we checked this out.Learned so much about covered wagons, coaches , carriages and guns.There were some Indian art and artifacts.Very interesting and educational. We also loved the exquisite art quilts exhibit.I surely am going to bring my siblings here next time.I gathered from the museum personnel that the quilt exhibit collection ,last day of display is September.5 Too bad was hoping it would still be there when my siblings come.

As a horsey person on holiday from England this was a must visit for me and I certainly wasnt disappointed. Great exhibits inside and beautiful horse statues outside. My non horsey husband and 15 y old son had a nice surprise as they really enjoyed it too. My husband particularly enjoyed the photo exhibition.All in all a great visit for the whole family

Some time back I looked at a U Tube of this museum. Seemed to be predominately a large number of common wagons & coaches.Since wagons & coaches don't interest me, I didn't go till my hubby wanted to.The best thing there was something I was unaware exists, truely fine art quilts! This is a new media to me & it does amazing things. Unfortunately, the quilts are a traveling show & may not be there much longer.Back to the museum, whatever they have in the entire collection it was not there. There were a couple of handfulls of guns, maybe 30 coaches, etc.The indian art & artifacts were the largest collection in number. Interesting to look at but I can't place historical nor artistic value.

It was trying to rain so we were looking for something inside to do and this was a surprise. It is a 2 story museum with one wealthy woman's collections. In the lower level they had costumes, a play house, fake horses to sit on, and a buggy to pose in for pictures. The kids loved that. They had some interesting collections of buggies, saddles, western collectibles all downstairs that were better geared for adults. Also upstairs when we were there was an incredible collection of artwork made from cloth. Fabulous! All of it was for sale and it made you wish you had a large bank balance.

It was fun walking around and looking at all the displays and they had some fun things for the kids to do. They could sit in an old wagon and take photos.

Great way to spend a little time before the races!!! Really enjoyed looking at the old pictures of Ruidoso in the early years

Wonderful little museum. Looks relatively new. Great display of a wide variety of 19th century horse drawn carriages, wagons, etc. Much more too. Horse metal sculptures in the entrance garden area were spectacular.