A. The "museum of New Mexico" is established. All properties, real or personal, now held for museum purposes and all properties, real or personal, that may be acquired for museum purposes at any time in the future shall be under the control of the museum board of regents of the museum of New Mexico.

B. The museum of New Mexico consists of:

(1) the palace of the governors state history museum;

(2) the New Mexico museum of art;

(3) the museum of Indian arts and culture;

(4) the museum of international folk art;

(5) the archaeology division; and

(6) the state historic sites:

(a) Coronado historic site;

(b) Jemez historic site;

(c) Fort Selden historic site;

(d) Bosque Redondo memorial and Fort Sumner historic site;

(e) Lincoln historic site;

(f) El Camino Real historic trail site;

(g) Fort Stanton historic site;

(h) Taylor Reynolds Barela Mesilla historic site; and

(i) Los Luceros historic site.

History: 1953 Comp., § 4-12-32, enacted by Laws 1975, ch. 264, § 1; 1977, ch. 246, § 25; 1980, ch. 151, § 25; 2004, ch. 25, § 19; 2007, ch. 269, § 5; 2013, ch. 67, § 3; 2019, ch. 113, § 1.

Cross references. — For special recreation and museum privileges for veterans and their immediate families on Veteran's Day, see 28-13A-1 NMSA 1978.

The 2019 amendment, effective June 14, 2019, added Los Luceros historic site to the list of state historic sites that are part of the museum of New Mexico; and in Subsection B, Paragraph B(6), added Subparagraph B(6)(i).

The 2013 amendment, effective June 14, 2013, renamed the archaeological services division as the archaeology division; renamed state monuments as historic sites; in Paragraph (5) of Subsection B, deleted "archaeological services" and added "the archaeology division"; in Paragraph (6) of Subsection B, in the introductory sentence, after "the state", deleted "monuments" and added "historic site"; in Subparagraphs (a) through (e) and (h) of Paragraph (6) of Subsection B, deleted "state monument" and added "historic site"; in Subparagraph (d) of Paragraph (6) of Subsection B, at the beginning of the sentence, added "Bosque Redondo memorial and"; in Subparagraph (f) of Paragraph (6) of Subsection B, after "El Camino Real", deleted "international heritage center; and" and added "historic trail site"; and added Subparagraph (g) of Paragraph (6) of Subsection B.

The 2007 amendment, effective June 15, 2007, changes the museum of fine art to the "New Mexico museum of art".

The 2004 amendment, effective May 19, 2004, designated the formerly undesignated provisions of this section as Subsection A and in Subsection A, deleted Santa Fe as the headquarters of the museum and changed "museum division of office of cultural affairs" to "museum board of regents of the museum of New Mexico"; and added Subsection B.

Investment of fund. — Under former law the board of regents of the museum of New Mexico was not given authority to determine the type of investment that its permanent fund would be invested in. 1964 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 64-29.