RMAC / COLLECTIONS / HISTORY

Contact Information:

Curator of Collections and Exhibitions
Roswell Museum and Art Center
100 West 11th Street
Roswell, NM 88201
575-624-6744, extension 15

Registrar
Roswell Museum and Art Center
100 West 11th Street
Roswell, NM 88201
575-624-6744, extension 13
farnham@roswellmuseum.org

The Roswell Museum and Art Center’s permanent collection is comprised of fine art and historical materials that chronicle specific areas of cultural change in the Southwest while recognizing this region’s relationship to the broader American society.

Rogers and Mary Ellen Aston Collection of the American West

This collection includes artifacts and works of art that recount the conquest and settlement of the American West including its early occupation by native peoples; Spanish conquest and domination; and European American expansion into the West.

Robert H. Goddard Collection of Liquid-Propellant Rocketry

This collection includes Dr. Goddard’s original rocket launch tower (located on the Museum grounds), rocket assemblies, journals and notes, rare film footage of rocket launches, and a recreation of Goddard’s workshop with machinery, tools, rocket cones, and fully-assembled rockets.

Clockwise: Mexican, Retablo, c. 1800-1850, tin covered iron, oil paint, wood. RMAC Permanent Collection.

Zuni, Storage Jar, 20th century, earthenware.
RMAC Permanent Collection.

Lakota, Saddlebag, c. 1885-95, buckskin, glass beads, tin, horsehair, cotton thread, sinew.
RMAC Permanent Collection.

Clockwise:Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard making adjustments at the upper end of a rocket combustion chamber, Roswell, NM, 1940. RMAC Library and Archives Collection.

Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard with a rocket, Roswell, NM, September 29, 1931. RMAC Library and Archives Collection.






Contact Information: Curator of Collections and Exhibitions Roswell Museum and Art Center 100 West 11th Street Roswell, NM 88201 575-624-6744, extension 15 Registrar Roswell Museum and Art Center 100 West 11th Street Roswell, NM 88201 575-624-6744, extension 13 farnham@roswellmuseum.org	The Roswell Museum and Art Center’s permanent collection is comprised of fine art and historical materials that chronicle specific areas of cultural change in the Southwest while recognizing this region’s relationship to the broader American society.



	Rogers and Mary Ellen Aston Collection of the American West This collection includes artifacts and works of art that recount the conquest and settlement of the American West including its early occupation by native peoples; Spanish conquest and domination; and European American expansion into the West. Robert H. Goddard Collection of Liquid-Propellant Rocketry This collection includes Dr. Goddard’s original rocket launch tower (located on the Museum grounds), rocket assemblies, journals and notes, rare film footage of rocket launches, and a recreation of Goddard’s workshop with machinery, tools, rocket cones, and fully-assembled rockets.	Clockwise: Mexican, Retablo, c. 1800-1850, tin covered iron, oil paint, wood. RMAC Permanent Collection. Zuni, Storage Jar, 20th century, earthenware. RMAC Permanent Collection. Lakota, Saddlebag, c. 1885-95, buckskin, glass beads, tin, horsehair, cotton thread, sinew. RMAC Permanent Collection. Clockwise:Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard making adjustments at the upper end of a rocket combustion chamber, Roswell, NM, 1940. RMAC Library and Archives Collection. Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard with a rocket, Roswell, NM, September 29, 1931. RMAC Library and Archives Collection.