Governor Bent Museum

Very local, eccentric little museum. Do not expect shiny display cases and other modern museum amenities, this place has not changed very much in the past 40 plus years. Owned and operated by Tom...

I wish that I had the $3 and 15 minutes that I spent back. The museum has some belongings from the Bent family and random stuff from the era scattered around in a random fashion. The most...

Normally I like small out of the way history museum's. Unfortunately this one was like more of a junk collection. There was little to no signage so it was difficult to know what the exhibits were....

This museum is in the small house of Gov. Charles Bent, head of the U.S. Territory of New Mexico in 1847 when the Natives of the Taos Pueblo killed him here (the US Military responded with a...

Save your $3 admission charge, and skip this sad little "museum." The day we visited, the place was being staffed by an elderly man who seemed annoyed that we interrupted his newspaper reading....