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Gallup
Cultural Center is located at
201 E. Historic Rt. 66. Recently
renovated, the cultural center has all a tourist can want:
a gift shop, museum, art gallery, arts & crafts demonstration,
café, tourist information theater, bus station for Greyhound Lines and
Amtrak service.
Gallup
Historical Museum is located
at Rt. 66 and Third Street in Downtown Gallup and is operated by the
Gallup Historical Society to showcase the railroad and mining history of
the Gallup area.
Red
Rock State Park and Museum is
located six miles east of Gallup and houses permanent displays of Kachinas,
pottery, rugs, silver, and turquoise as well as traveling art exhibits.
Octavia
Fellin Public Library, located
at 101 W. Hill Street in Gallup, provides monthly exhibits of art by
regional artists.
Navajo
Code Talkers Room, located at
103 W. Route 66 in the Gallup-McKinley County Chamber of Commerce
building, houses photos and other memorabilia which commemorate the vital
contribution made by the Navajo Code Talkers during World War II.
Nightly
Indian Dances & Market are
every evening at 7:00 p.m. from Memorial Day through Labor Day in the
Court House Square. Authentic
Native American dance and music groups are sponsored by the City of
Gallup.

Inter-Tribal
Indian Ceremonial
Gallup is the site of the Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial which has been
held annually since 1922, usually starting on the second Thursday of
August. Indian participants come from all over North America to take
part in the events designed to show their talents as cowboys, their
agility as dancers, and their expert craftsmanship in the fields of arts
and crafts.
Take
a Self-Guided Historic Walking
Tour
of downtown Gallup. Check at
the Gallup-McKinley County Chamber of Commerce, 104 West Highway 66 for
directions.
Red
Rock State Park is host to the Red
Rock Balloon Rally.
Held annually on the first weekend in December, it is the second largest
balloon rally in the state of New Mexico.
Playground
of Dreams is located on the
north side of I-40 on Maloney. It
is a wonderful place for the kids to play and have fun.
For
Native American Silversmithing,
ask at any trader’s shop to see if they
have manufacturing on the premises. If
so, ask them for a tour.
A’shiwi
A’wan Museum and Heritage Center
is located behind Zuni Tribal Arts & Crafts Store, 1222 State Hwy. 53
in Zuni. The museum is an
eco-museum in harmony with the cultural environmental values of the Zuni
people. It is neither a
temple, nor a storehouse, but a community learning center which links the
past with the present as a strategy to deal with the future.
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