Located in southeast New Mexico, the Roswell Museum presents exhibitions, classes, lectures, film screenings, planetarium programming, festivals and other special events related to art, history and science for visitors of all ages.

The Museum opened as the Roswell Museum Federal Art Center in 1937 as one of nearly 100 Federal Art Centers established nationwide by the WPA during the Great Depression. Today, RMAC is operated by the City of Roswell and is among only a handful of the original Federal Art Centers that are still in operation. The Museum is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums for its excellence in operations and programs.

The RMAC houses approximately 8,000 items of art and history in its permanent collection. Highlights include:

Works by regional artists Peter Hurd and Henriette Wyeth, representing the most comprehensive public assembly of these artists’ works.

Paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, Stuart Davis and others form the core of one of the finest collections of 20th Century New Mexico modernism.

The acclaimed Robert H. Goddard Collection of Liquid Fuel Rocketry bears national and international significance and represents rocket pioneer Robert Goddard’s twelve years of experimentation in Roswell.

The Rogers and Mary Ellen Aston Collection of the American West contains art and artifacts related to the Plains and Pueblo Indian cultures, Spanish conquest, and westward expansion―representing the West as a crossroads for exploration, warfare, trade, and settlement among peoples.