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VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Practical Information
Road map E3. * 6,000. n 1139
Paseo del Pueblo Sur (575) 758-
3873; (800) 732-8267. 
_ Fiestas de Taos (late Jul);
Yuletide in Taos (late Nov–New
Year). ∑ taos.org

E Taos Art Museum at
Fechin House
Handcrafted, wooden swing doors in the Fechin House 227 Paseo del Pueblo Norte. Tel (575)
758-2690. Open 10am–5pm Tue–Sun
created one of the country’s New Mexico in 1846. In 1847 (call for winter hours). & 7
best museums of Southwestern he was killed by Hispanic and ∑ taosartmuseum.org
arts and design. Native silver Indian residents who resented Born in Russia in 1881,
and turquoise jewelry and American rule. The hole hacked Nicolai Fechin learned
Navajo weavings form the core in the adobe by his family as woodcarving from his father.
of the exhibits, which are housed they attempted to flee can still He became a talented artist,
in a historic hacienda. Also be seen. Today, exhibits include producing paintings, drawings,
featured is the pottery of the guns, native artifacts, and and sculpture. Fechin
famous Puebloan artist Maria animal skins. moved to Taos with his
Martinez (1887–1980), with its family in 1927 and set about
distinctive black-on-black style. P Rio Grande Gorge Bridge restoring his adobe home
The dramatic Rio Grande Gorge with Russian-influenced wood-
E Governor Bent House Bridge, which opened in 1965, is work including handcrafted
and Museum the second-highest suspension doors, windows, and furniture.
117 Bent St. Tel (575) 758-2376. bridge in the country. At 650 ft Today his house is the Taos
Open Apr–Oct: 9am–5pm daily; (195 m) above the Rio Grande, its Art Museum, containing
Nov–Mar: 10am–4pm daily. & dizzying heights offer awesome examples of his work as
Charles Bent became the first views of the gorge and the well as that of numerous
Anglo-American governor of surrounding sweeping plateau. early Taos artists.

Central Taos
1 Harwood Museum of Art 5 Governor Bent House
Taos Pueblo
2 Blumenschein Home and Museum Millicent Rogers Museum,
and Museum 6 Taos Art Museum Rio Grande Gorge Bridge
3 Taos Plaza at Fechin House BROOKS STREET
4 Kit Carson Home MO N TA NO LA NE
and Museum H I NDE ST R EET at Fechin House
BEDFORD LN BE D FO RD S TR E ET PASEO DEL PUEBL O NORTE Taos Art Museum
CAMIN O DE LA PLACITAS BENT STREET Governor Bent Kit Carson
CIVIC PLAZA DRIVE
MARTYRS LANE
House and Museum
State Park
MANZANA R ES STREET DO N F E R N ANDO STRE DONA LUZ ET STREET Taos Plaza Kit Carson Home DRAGOON LANE MOR A DA LANE
TERESINA LN
and Museum
LANE
PADRE MARTINEZ
RANCHITOS ROAD LEDOUX ST Blumenschein LA PL A CITA PASEO DEL PUEBLO SUR KIT CARSON ROAD ROBERTS LANE
Home and Museum
COMANCH E RD
Harwood OJITOS ROAD Q U E S N E L S T R E E T
Museum of Art 0 meters 100
0 yards 100
Rancho de Taos
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