Insights into Native American lifeways await visitors to the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture where you can experience the art, material culture and archaeology of the Southwest from ancestral to contemporary times. The Museum was opened in 1987 to showcase the vast collection of more than 70,000 works from the Laboratory of Anthropology. Featured in the new Amy Bloch Wing is Here, Now and Always — the dramatic story of Native American presence in the Southwest. The 9,000-square-foot exhibition with more than 1,300 artifacts was collaboratively produced by Native American elders, artists, scholars, teachers, builders, writers, and museum professionals. An annual Fiber Arts Festival, lectures and artist presentations are some of the events sponsored throughout the year at the Museum.