Valencia County Historical Society Railroad Exhibit Room, Harvey Girls Room, and Railroad Club Exhibit. The Historic Harvey House is located in Belen at the old railroad station.
Phone number is 505 861-0581.
Tome Parish Museum: Local religious history exhibit. Tome is located 7 miles north of Belen on NM Highway 47.
P&M Farm Museum in Jarales three miles south of Belen offers 250 years of history from inside to outside. Manuela and Pablo Chavez love to collect things and that collection has become a museum with everything from tractors to butter churns to bells.
Visual Arts
New Mexico's vibrant colors and charming landscaping have drawn artists for decades. Taos and Santa Fe have been hotbeds of artistic colonies with paintings, drawings and photographs of scenes in The Land of Enchantment created and then distributed worldwide.
Members of the Belen Art League have honed their skills over the last decades. Members paint, draw and perform a wide range of other artistic talents. Located at 509 Becker Avenue, 505-861-0217.
The Rio Abajo Gallery and Studio Tour is an annual event showcasing the abilities of any artisans through the Valencia County valley. Artists whose talents range from photography to sculpture and scores of other artistic endeavors are on display.
Belén is now home to world-renown artist Judy Chicago and her photographer husband Donald Woodman and their Through the Flower Foundation.
