Catholic Museum and the Archbishop Lamy Commemorative Garden

Frommer's Review

This museum will be especially interesting if you've read Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop, a fictional account of Archbishop Lamy's experience in northern New Mexico. If you haven't read it, as you visit the St. Francis Cathedral, The Bishop's Lodge, and other areas around Santa Fe, pay attention to tales of the Archbishop because he's central to the area's history. The exhibition changes every few years, but you're likely to see a portrait of the determined, thin-lipped Frenchman -- who resolutely battled what he felt was apostasy on the part of the Spanish clergy in New Mexico -- and some of Lamy's personal items. All of the museum's changing exhibits feature objects and information about the 400-year-old history of the Catholic Church in New Mexico. The adjacent Lamy garden isn't much to see, but the gift shop has a nice collection of locally made religious articles.

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