The Silver City Museum creates opportunities for residents and visitors to explore, understand, and celebrate the rich and diverse cultural heritage of southwestern New Mexico by collecting, preserving, researching and interpreting the region's unique history.

The Town of Silver City and the Silver City Museum are pleased to announce that a new Director for the Museum has been hired. Mr. Tracy Spikes will begin his duties on April 11th. Spikes replaces longtime museum director Susan Berry, who worked at the Silver City Museum for 36 years, and Interim Director Jay Smith who was hired to guide the search process and help with organizational transition. Press Release . . .

Opened in 1967, the museum is a department of the Town of Silver City with support from the Silver City Museum Society and The Institute of Museum and Library Services. Housed in the restored 1881 Mansard/Italianate H.B Ailman House, the museum collection resource materials include some 20,000 objects relating to the peoples and history of southwest New Mexico. A twelve-member Board of Directors, appointed by Silver City's mayor, oversees strategic planning and policy for the museum.
Museum operations are administered by our small Museum Staff, supplemented with a large corps of volunteers.