Cultural History Menu

Casas Grandes pot, Centennial Museum Collection.

Centennial Museum: General Information

Archaeology Exhibit

Ethnology Exhibit

Desert Diary. The web version of the daily radio program presented by the Centennial Museum and KTEP, National Public Radio for the Southwest. Additional materials (photographs, references, educational material, mp3 recordings of the programs) are added to many accounts.

Casas Grandes. Learn more about the prehistoric and early historic Casas Grandes Regional Culture that held sway over a large area that included northern Chihuahua, Far West Texas, and much of southern New Mexico.

Early Southwestern Photographs. Glass-plate photographs of the early years in the Southwest.

Publications. The Museum has a short series of publications on anthropology and natural history. The Museum also has a series available by PDF that includes informal, electronic documents of the Centennial Museum: Ethnobotanical Information, Chihuahuan Desert Gardens; An Annotated Checklist of Fishes of the Rio Grande Drainage, Doña Ana, El Paso and Hudspeth Counties; Mammals of the Greater El Paso Region; Checklist of Amphibians and Reptiles of the El Paso-Juárez Border Region; Checklist of the Mammals of El Paso County; Plio-Pleistocene Vertebrate Fossils of the El Paso Area; El Paso Birds; and Recommended Southwestern Native Plants for the El Paso/Las Cruces Area.