{"id":298,"date":"2006-05-30T09:55:49","date_gmt":"2006-05-30T15:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/wild\/?p=298"},"modified":"2014-03-26T14:45:21","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T20:45:21","slug":"sky-city-cultural-center-and-haaku-museum-at-acoma-pueblo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"Sky City Cultural Center and Haak&#8217;u Museum at Acoma Pueblo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/id\/13029148\/\">Tribal events, sites contribute to NM&#8217;s tourist traffic &#8211; Albuquerque &#8211; MSNBC.com<\/a> By Harlan McKosato, New Mexico Business Weekly<\/p>\n<p>The newest tourist attraction on tribal lands is the Sky City Cultural Center and Haak&#8217;u Museum at Acoma Pueblo, 45 miles west of Albuquerque, opening May 27. The $15 million, 40,000-square-foot building evokes the Acoma ancestral architecture at Mesa Verde and Chaco Canyon.<\/p>\n<p>There will be interactive components in the museum, such as a chance to bake bread in an outdoor oven, or horno. Tours will take visitors atop the 370-foot sandstone mesa, home of the Acoma people for 2,000 years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Acoma has been involved in the tourism industry since the 1940s,&#8221; says Brian Vallo, director of the new cultural center and museum and an Acoma member.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1970s, Acoma built a tourist center at the base of the mesa. This housed a museum, gift shop and food service. In May of 2000, the tourist center burned down and the tribal council approved a plan to rebuild. But first they decided to take a closer look at the tourism industry in New Mexico and funded a market study. As a result, the council decided to build the cultural center and museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tribal events, sites contribute to NM&#8217;s tourist traffic &#8211; Albuquerque &#8211; MSNBC.com By Harlan McKosato, New Mexico Business Weekly The newest tourist attraction on tribal lands is the Sky City Cultural Center and Haak&#8217;u Museum at Acoma Pueblo, 45 miles west of Albuquerque, opening May 27. The $15 million, 40,000-square-foot building evokes the Acoma ancestral &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=298\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sky City Cultural Center and Haak&#8217;u Museum at Acoma Pueblo<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daytrips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}