{"id":315,"date":"2006-06-13T11:01:44","date_gmt":"2006-06-13T17:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/wild\/?p=315"},"modified":"2014-03-26T14:45:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T20:45:20","slug":"acomas-sky-city-cultural-center-and-haaku-museum-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"Acoma’s Sky City Cultural Center and Haak’u Museum, New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sky City Cultural Center links present to past<\/a> By Tamara N. Shope, Tribune Reporter, June 9, 2006<\/p>\n

IF YOU GO<\/p>\n

What: Acoma’s Sky City Cultural Center and Haak’u Museum.
\nWhere: Sky City Pueblo, 12 miles southwest of I-40 from Exit 102.
\nWhen: 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. during the summer; 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. during the winter.
\nHow much: The museum and cultural center are free. Tours of Sky City: Adult, $10; seniors $9; youths $7. A still-camera permit is $10.<\/p>\n

Call (800) 747-0181.<\/p>\n

The $15 million Sky City Cultural Center and Haak’u Museum offers new experiences for tourists, in a setting very familiar to Acomas<\/p>\n

ACOMA – It’s peculiar how swiftly a sense of grandeur can swallow up a traveler.<\/p>\n

But when a long road disappears below a rocky, dusty hill in Acoma, a valley suddenly opens up as wide as the sky. <\/p>\n

At the same time, Sky City, with its worn, modest homes and whitewashed walls and thousands of years of history, brings with it a sense of belonging.<\/p>\n

A series of towering, sandy rocks and, sometimes, wayward cattle greet the traveler, usually a visitor looking to connect with an ancient city.<\/p>\n

The road through grandeur branches off I-40 about 45 minutes west of Albuquerque. It heads southward, winding to a village on top of a mesa and, now, to its cultural center and museum – which, like the valley, has become priceless to the community.<\/p>\n

The $15 million project was designed to look and feel like home for Acomas, and the community it was built for hopes it can help sustain 2,000-year-old culture. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sky City Cultural Center links present to past By Tamara N. Shope, Tribune Reporter, June 9, 2006 IF YOU GO What: Acoma’s Sky City Cultural Center and Haak’u Museum. Where: Sky City Pueblo, 12 miles southwest of I-40 from Exit 102. When: 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. during the summer; 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. … Continue reading Acoma’s Sky City Cultural Center and Haak’u Museum, New Mexico<\/span> →<\/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-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daytrips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","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=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}