Museum Name:
Western Heritage Museum & Lea County Cowboy Hall of Fame
Schedule: Tuesday - Saturday 9 am to 5 pm
Established: Jan 2006
Address: 5317 Lovington Hwy, Hobbs, NM 88240
Phone Number: (505) 392-6730
Fax Number: (505) 392-2600
Email: TheMuseum@nmjc.edu
Director: Karen Wiley - WHM & Lisa Seed - CHOF
Website: www.nmjc.edu
Focus: The mission of the Western Heritage Museum and Lea County Cowboy Hall of Fame is to celebrate through learning, the stories and history of the people, culture, and industry of this region by preservation, research, collection and exhibition.
Ages: All
Costs: $3 Adults/$2 65+ & ages 6-18/Children <5 free
Notes: The Museum is closed for new equipment installation until March 1, 2007.

Exhibits
Lea County Cowboy Hall of Fame permanant collection of Bronze, Silver Concho, Working Cowboy & Young Rancher inductees focusing on ranching & rodeo.

South Gallery - Historical depiction of Life on the Llano Estacado

2007 Exhibits
March 1 - April 26 Snare - Artist Sandra Luckett

May 1 - May 12 Festival of Quilts Co-sponsored by the Lea County Commission for the Arts

June 1 - Aug 31 Making a Hand: Ranch Children of New Mexico New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum, circulated by TREX - the Traveling Exhibitions Program of the Museum of New Mexico, division of the NM Dept of Cultural Affairs, TREX operates in partnership with the Museum of New Mexico Foundation with support for Metlife Foundation, and McCune Charitable Foundation.

Sept 12 - Oct 24 Playas...Gems of the Plains Project of the Northwest Texas Museum Association, through support of the Playa Lakes Joint Venture, Amarillo Area Foundation, Don & Sybil Harrington Foundation, Meadows Foundation.

Nov 1 - Jan 31, 2008 Maravillas de los Tejedores/Wonders of the Weavers Organized by the Albuquerque Museum

Class Trip Programs:
Mar 12 - Apr 27 Diorama: Flight of the Imagination Design in conjunction with the exhibition Snare Activities designed for all age groups Call for reservations

TBA - September Staked Plains Live exhibits for a hands-on experience of past culture and history of southeastern New Mexico

TBA Fall educational program designed in conjunction with Playas...Gems of the Plains

Class Trip Pricing:
Free to Museum programs

Museum tour - free to Lea County schools, $1 per student for classes outside of Lea County