Museum of International Folk Art

The Museum of International Folk Art is defined by a low-profile, long-stretching stone structure that sits nestled into the high-desert landscape of Museum Hill. It was founded in nineteen fifty-three by Florence Dibell Bartlett, a Chicago philanthropist who moved to northern New Mexico and sought to protect handmade traditions in an increasingly industrial world. Bartlett believed these objects could serve as a bond between disparate people, and she gave the original building and her own collection of twenty-five hundred items to the state to turn that idea into reality.