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Welcome to the Poeh Museum
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Opened in 1991, the Poeh Museum is a unique hub of Pueblo culture that serves Native and non-Native peoples alike. As a center point of Pueblo culture and history, the Poeh Museum strives to promote cultural preservation through curation, exhibition, and interaction. A key resource for the promotion and preservation of Native American Pueblo art and culture, the Poeh Museum is a unique treasure in American history. With a primary focus on the artists of the six Tewa-speaking pueblos of Northern New Mexico, its programs focus on the preservation of traditional and contemporary Pueblo art and culture. Its rapidly growing collections include contemporary, historical, and archaeological works – an invaluable resource to artists and researchers from both within and outside the Pueblo community.
Like all Tewa Pueblos of Northern New Mexico Pojoaque (or Po'su wah geh) Pueblo was systematically stripped of its heritage, culture and traditions by European contact in the sixteenth century. Pojoaque Pueblo is revitalizing their traditions in part through the efforts of the Poeh Center’s mission to teach their native language, traditional song and dance, and material culture.
The Grand Opening of the Collections Gallery, which houses the Permanent Collection, was held on August 14, 2002. The Pueblo of Pojoaque and the Poeh Cultural Center and Museum are excited to be able to serve the Pueblo and local communities by completing the Collections Gallery – the first public space in the newly constructed Poeh Cultural Center.
