The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) New Mexico Exhibit Unit. (Albuquerque, New Mexico)

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The Center engages in a series of programs about New Mexico, including exhibitions, tours, and a new exhibit facility. These interconnected programs explore aspects of the landscape of the state, and its relevance and significance within the fabric of America.

From the birth of the manmade sun in Los Alamos to the optimistic bunkers of its doomsday cultures, New Mexico, more than anywhere else, vibrates with the resonance between the starry plasma of the cosmos and the firmness of terrestrial terra firma. High technology, using the invisible spectrum (radar ranges, radio observatories, x-rays, radioactivity), stretches to see, to detect, and to compel. These efforts are fused with the visible and physical surface of the land, and manifest the ancillary actions of attraction, impact, containment, and entombment.

To explore these themes, the Center established the New Mexico Exhibit Unit. The Unit, a customized mobile office structure and installed at a special location, at the end of a road south of Albuquerque, to be both a destination and a point of embarkation on a journey into this most remarkable state.