ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM FOUNDATION
Mission
The Albuquerque Museum Foundation — an independent, nonprofit corporation — raises funds for the Albuquerque Museum.
Strategic Plan
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Vision
The Foundation champions the Museum’s exceptional exhibitions, educational programs, and acquisitions.
Values
Integrity ● Stewardship ● Communication ● Respect
Albuquerque Museum Foundation
PO Box 7006, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87194
Phone: 505-677-8500
Email: info@albuquerquemuseumfoundation.org
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BUSINESS HOURS: Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
EIN 85-0201054
The Internal Revenue Service requires all 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable and nonprofit organizations to submit Form 990 annually. It is designed to increase financial transparency and includes revenue, expenditure, and income data.
OUR STAFF
MUSEUM STORE
Our 2025–26 Board of Directors
Joe McKinney Honorary Emeritus Board
Hal Behl
Joe McKinney
The historic Juan Cristobal Armijo “New Homestead”
The Batten House
Architectural Feature: The Historic Batten House
The historic Juan Cristóbal Armijo “New Homestead” and the contents of the House were given to the Albuquerque Museum Foundation through the Lucia v.B. Batten Trust and the estate’s Trustee.
In 2007, rehabilitation of the hacienda was completed with Kells + Craig Architects’ services, and the Foundation moved to its headquarters, now called “Batten House.” Built in 1875, it is one of the very few territorial haciendas remaining in New Mexico.
Baroness Lucia von Borosini was born in Chicago to German nobility. When she was very young, her family moved to Pasadena, California where she spent her childhood. When Lucia’s third husband, Edmund Engel, was hired as Albuquerque’s City Manager the couple moved from Pasadena to Albuquerque.
In 1952 Lucia purchased the historic property in Los Griegos—the Juan Cristóbal Armijo “New Homestead”—and purchased it from then owners Elizabeth and A.E. Borrell who had renamed the property “Casa del Lago”.
In 1964, Mrs. Engel married Philadelphia advertising mogul and “mover and shaker” Harry Batten; they divided their time between his homes in Philadelphia and her estate in Albuquerque. For the next several years, they embarked on a plan to restore the estate’s extensive gardens and build a library adjacent to the hacienda.
Mrs. Batten’s book collection had outgrown the original library inside the hacienda. Unfortunately, Batten died in 1966 before he could see the new addition. But nearly 100 years after Juan Cristobal built the original hacienda, the library was added to the property.
Lucia v.B. Batten lived at her beloved “Outlook Ranch” until her death in January 2005. Mrs. Batten’s wishes—through her bequest—were that the property and contents of the house be given to the Albuquerque Museum Foundation and that the Foundation occupy and maintain Outlook Ranch in perpetuity. She left a sizable securities fund to insure that her wishes could be honored by the Foundation.
SOURCE: New Mexico Architectural Foundation
Built c. 1875-1885. The property was listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior in 1982. The Batten House is not open to the public.
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