Murals
Gallup has dozens of unique murals inspired by regional history and cultures that you can explore both downtown and around the community.
Arts & Culture
Often called the "Gateway to Native America," Gallup is a threshold to its multiple indigenous neighbors and celebrates the rich arts and centuries old cultural traditions that come with being a western railroad border town.
Museums & Galleries
Founded in 1881 as a headquarters for the southern transcontinental rail route, Gallup has become the gateway to the Native American cultural experience and a center for Native American arts.
Made in Gallup
Gallup is home to some of the most unique manufacturing in the Southwest, with brands you may not even know were made in our region.
Gallup offers an astonishing and unparalleled variety of high quality turquoise and silver jewelry, paintings, murals, pottery and sculptures, rugs and blankets, Kachina dolls and other Native American arts and crafts.
We are the Indian jewelry capital of the world with more than 70-80% of Native American jewelry and other arts produced and sold through our region. The wares created in our community supply art markets and retail across the United States. As the gateway to the Native American culture, Gallup affords easy access to visit Zuni Pueblo and the Navajo Nation or experience authentic traditional dances right here in Gallup performed by a variety of area tribes, with traditional drum, rattle and flute instruments. Gallup also celebrates its rich cultural heritage that grew when diverse European, Asian, and South American cultures immigrated into the area during the late 1800s for construction of the railroad and coal mining.
Gallup lies in the heart of Native American ancestral homelands. With the Navajo Nation at their doorstep, Zuni Pueblo to the South, and the Hopi Reservation nearby in Arizona, Gallup is truly the gateway to the Native American experience.
Summer Indigenous Arts & Dances
Experience authentic traditional dances from a variety of area tribes, featuring traditional drum, rattle, and flute instruments along with explanations regarding the cultural traditions that surround these dances.
Red Rock Park Museum
Through interpretive exhibits, the Red Rock Park Museum chronicles the lives and culture of the Ancestral Puebloans as well as the present-day Zuni, Hopi and Navajo.
Gallup Cultural Center
The Gallup Cultural Center offers diverse programming and arts that celebrate the Native American cultures that neighbor Gallup, as well as Gallup's unique history. It was created in 1996 at the historic…
Gallup Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial
Every August, Gallup, New Mexico, hosts one the nation's oldest celebrations of Native American arts and culture in a massive showcase of arts, dance, music, rodeo, and more.
Art-Focused Events
August 4 to August 13
Save the date for the 101st Gallup Intertribal Ceremonial! Native American & Indigenous Tribal Processions & Performances, Rodeo Events, Ceremonial Queen and Princess Pageants, Juried Art Show & Contest, Artisan Markets, 5k Run/Walk, Parades, Powwow, Navajo Song & Dance, Film Screenings and more. Founded in 1922 and considered a New Mexico destination experience, the Gallup Intertribal Ceremonial is one of the oldest continuous recognitions of Native American culture and heritage and known for attracting an international audience.
Information about the event will be published at www.GallupIntertribalCeremonial.com.