Good In Everything: All The Worlds A Stage & Where the Sidewalk Ends

Poets and playwrights have long taken inspiration from urban life and the natural world, hoping to find words to encompass the fullness of humanity. These exhibitions bring together two contrasting ideas that highlight the human condition. “All the World’s a Stage” examines the various roles we play in public, and “Where the Sidewalk Ends” explores the freedom to not perform in any role when we are in nature.

These exhibitions draw from the approximately 150,000 images in the Museum’s Photo Archives, made by amateur, commercial, and studio photographers throughout the central Rio Grande valley and the City of Albuquerque from 1867 to the present. The collection includes photographic prints, stereoscopic views, glass plate negatives, family albums, slides, oral history recordings, ephemera, postcards, film, and digitized media.

Every first Wednesday (free admission day for all) and third Friday of the month, the Photo Archives team sets up a table in the Museum lobby from 9:30am – 12pm and presents curated stories from the collection, making the collection more accessible to our community. Drop by and meet the archivists, ask questions and share your family’s archives and stories.

Images:

Left: Dominguez, Untitled, January 25, 2016, Albuquerque Museum, PA2021.036.013

Right: Unknown Photographer, “Man Sitting on a Cliff,” ca. 1910, Albuquerque Museum, PA1978.031.255