By appointment only:
Please contact Museum Registrar, Amberly Meli at
a.meli@roswell-nm.gov or 575-624-6744 to schedule a visit
Non-Lending Library
This is free to the public. It is a non-lending library. Teachers with an Educator’s Membership may borrow library resources. The RMAC Library can also facilitate inter-library loans.
Library Materials
The Roswell Museum and Art Center’s 8,000 volume library includes books, catalogues, periodicals, and audio-visual materials related to world art history, anthropology, art and history of the Southwest, applied art, photography, museum studies, and rocket history-technology.
Unique primary source materials related to the Federal Arts Project in New Mexico, and the archives of artist Howard Cook and physicist Robert Hutchings Goddard are an important resource for scholars.
The library also houses vertical files on artists in the Museum’s collection and artists of the Southwest, and video and audio tapes related to museum studies, the art and culture of the West/Southwest, and world art history.
Periodicals
The Library subscribes to the following monthly or quarterly periodicals: