Georgia O’Keeffe Museum

This exquisite museum, opened in 1997, is a small but powerful testament to the legacy of one of the United States’ most pioneering artists. A selection of the 3,000 works owned by the museum is shown within a handful of small rooms, hung on simple beige walls with choice quotations from O’Keeffe, which create a narrative alongside the paintings, drawings and sculptures. A luminous abstract like Evening Star, No. VI, which she painted in 1917, only grows in scope and depth next to the artist’s musing that “the meaning of a word – to me – is not as exact as the meaning of color.” There are changing exhibitions, but the permanent collection is the real draw here. Don’t miss the short film about O’Keeffe’s connection to and love for New Mexico.