Choose between National History Museum and Downtown Santa Fe OR Hike - Bandelier National Monument
National History Museum and Downtown Santa Fe
https://www.nmhistorymuseum.org/about/ The New Mexico History Museum opened in 2009, the museum houses 96,000 square feet (8,900 m2) of permanent and rotating exhibits covering the history of New Mexico from ancient Native American cultures to the present. The New Mexico History Museum has 3 1/2 floors of exhibitions telling the stories that made the American West, from the early lives of Native people to Spanish colonists.
The Palace of the Governors, adjacent to the museum and worth a visit, is an adobe structure built in the Territorial Style of Pueblo architecture on Palace Avenue in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It served as the seat of government for New Mexico for centuries, having been established as the capitol building of Nuevo México in 1610. It was New Mexico's seat of government until 1901.
Hike - Bandelier Natonal Monument
Bandelier National Monument protects, preserves, and interprets an outstanding portion of the Pajarito Plateau, including one of the largest concentrations of Ancestral Pueblo archaeological sites in the American Southwest. The park provides opportunities for people to connect with and enjoy a diversity of cultural and natural resources, striking scenery, wildlife habitats, remnants of a volcanic landscape, and wilderness.The Pueblo Loop Trail is a 1.4 mile loop trail (thanks to log crossings) through archeological sites. Most visitors spend between 45 minutes and one hour on this trail. Ladders along the trail allow visitors to climb into cavates (cave dwellings). The Main Pueblo Loop Trail takes you past the Big Kiva, Tyuonyi, Talus House, and Long House. Bandelier history and info.