Folk art was neither widely collected nor highly valued in the early 1900s when globetrotting Chicago socialite & philanthropist Florence Bartlett (1881-1954) began buying indigenous works encountered on her travels & dreamed of founding a museum to celebrate cultural diversity. Beartlett realised her goal in 1953 when the Museum of International Folk Art opened in Santa Fe near her long-time summer home. 50 years later Bartletts vision lives on in an ever-expanding museum collection that
Includes:: contemporary pieces as well as centuries old textiles woodwork pottery & ethnic garb.