Farmington Museum is hosting the Smithsonian’s traveling “Lowrider Culture in the United States” exhibit through July 25, 2026. The museum expanded the exhibit with three lowrider cars, three motorcycles, artwork on the walls and bicycles in the lobby. Outside, the Park and Chill car show drew local car owners looking to show off their rides in a laid-back setting, alongside live music, food vendors and arts and crafts.
Museum officials said the event drew a wide cross-section of the Farmington community and reflected the deep ties between lowrider culture and Northern New Mexico’s Hispanic heritage. The museum is tentatively planning a follow-up event in September or October 2027 to coincide with Hispanic Heritage Month. For more information, contact the museum or curator Michelle Zupan through farmingtonnm.gov.
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Well, the mission of the exhibit is to introduce people to and to celebrate Lowrider culture. Lowrider culture is really, really important to New Mexico, especially Northern New Mexico. So we wanted to celebrate that, and it’s, it’s a chance to see some amazing, amazing works of art in the form of cars and motorcycles and bicycles and also art in general. All that celebrate this amazing culture that’s, that’s really key to Northern New Mexico and, and the Hispanic culture that’s here.
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Today we’re hosting a public opening of the Smithsonian’s low Rider culture in the United States exhibit. That’s a traveling exhibit of photographs, but we’ve added to that exhibit. We’ve added three low rider cars and three motorcycles in the exhibit itself. And then we also have art on the walls and bicycles out in the, the lobby of the museum. And on top of all that, we’re having what’s called a Park and Chill, which is basically a, a relaxed car show. Most car shows are competitive and we’re just kind of having a relax, show your car off and have fun event outside. We’ve also got live music and food vendors and arts and crafts vendors and just a, a big party outside in the, in the parking lot. Well, it’s, it’s been a big success for us. We, we, one of our goals as a museum is to unite the community across all different cultures and all different groups. And this has really brought a, a really important part of the community out here to the museum. They’re sharing their love and their passion for these cars with the rest of the communities here in in Farmington, we do plan on doing this. Again, we’re scheduling tentatively at least to do this again in September on October of 2027. The Smithsonian’s exhibit is a one-off deal, but we plan on continuing this tradition of having low riders in our galleries and low rider art on our walls, I hope annually, but we’ll have to see how that works. But September, on October, our Hispanic Heritage month, so we’re targeting that for 2027. Well, if you’re a low rider or if you know low riders or you’re connected to the low rider culture or Hispanic culture in general, you can reach out to me at the Farmington Museum. Our curator, her name is Michelle Zupan. Either one of us can connect people up. So it’s, it’s been a really big celebration and we’re having a lot of fun with all, with the turnout and the huge number of people that are, that have come here to see this.
The Lowrider culture in the United States Smithsonian Exhibit will be featured in the Farmington Museum until July 25th, 2026. To learn more about the Farmington Museum, visit Farmingtonnm.gov and for more stories like this, visit LNN.news.
