Roswell Museum and Art Center
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Roswell Museum and Art Center is a museum in New Mexico, at a recorded elevation of 1,087 m. Blackwater Hill stands 1,334 m to the west-northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is R H Goddard's Launch Tower, a attraction 0.1 miles away. 60 named places lie within 25 miles, 7 of them named summits.
The story
The Roswell Museum (formerly Roswell Museum and Art Center) was founded in 1936 and is located in Roswell, New Mexico, United States. The museum features exhibits about the art and history of the American Southwest, as well as the Robert H. Goddard laboratory. The museum operates the Patricia Lubben Bassett Art Education Center, opened in 1998, as a learning facility. The facility houses two classrooms, a ceramics studio, and research library, all of which supports a museum-school-community creative exchange that provides arts education opportunities for all ages. The Robert H. Goddard Planetarium was built through an initiative shared by the museum and the Roswell Independent School District in 1968. Once considered the largest planetarium in New Mexico, it is capable of reproducing the night sky as seen from any point on Earth. The Robert H. Goddard Planetarium is home to a state-of-the-art, full-dome digital theater system with Digistar 6 programming.
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Dates from 1935.
Wikidata Q7370118, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1087 m
What to expect
How to reach it
60 named places within 25 miles
- POW/MIA Park: 0.2 mi
- Memorial Park: 0.3 mi
- Margot M. Purdy Park: 0.4 mi
- Pioneer Plaza: 0.5 mi
- DeKay Park: 0.6 mi
- POW/MIA Memorial: 0.1 mi
- Iron Cross: 0.2 mi
- Berlin Wall Fragment: 0.2 mi
- Arch: 0.4 mi
- Memorial Point: 1.9 mi
- Comanche Hill: 8.4 mi
- Haystack Mountain: 13.1 mi
- Panther Hill: 13.7 mi
- Mesa Diablo: 17.5 mi
- Blackwater Hill: 19.6 mi
- McBride Museum: 0.5 mi
- Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art: 0.5 mi
- International UFO Museum & Research Center: 0.7 mi
- Historical Center for Southeast New Mexico: 0.7 mi
- Walker Aviation Museum: 6.7 mi
- Overflow Wetlands Area of Critical Environmental Concern: 12.6 mi
- Haystack Mountain Off-Highway Vehicle Area: 22.4 mi
- R H Goddard's Launch Tower: 0.1 mi
- Blackdom: 16.6 mi
- Chalk Bluff: 19.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Roswell Museum and Art Center. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blackwater Hill | WNW 284° | 1,334 m | 19.6 mi |
| Haystack Mountain | NNW 332° | 1,248 m | 13.1 mi |
| Round Top | NNW 347° | 1,239 m | 22.2 mi |
| Sardine Mountain | ENE 76° | 1,212 m | 24.9 mi |
| Mesa Diablo | ENE 77° | 1,208 m | 17.5 mi |
| Panther Hill | N 354° | 1,143 m | 13.7 mi |
| Comanche Hill | E 92° | 1,110 m | 8.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:03 | 18:37 | 19:10 |
| June solstice | 05:50 | 19:35 | 20:12 |
| September equinox | 06:47 | 18:24 | 18:56 |
| December solstice | 06:59 | 16:17 | 16:55 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 39 | 44 | 52 | 59 | 67 | 77 | 80 | 78 | 70 | 60 | 47 | 39 |
| Precip in | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 0.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Roswell Climat, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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