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About Kit Carson Museum
The Kit Carson Museum is an adobe museum built in 1950 by Scouting America in Rayado, New Mexico. It serves as an interpretive area portraying the history and exploits of Lucien Maxwell and Kit Carson. Staff in period clothing demonstrate frontier skills such as blacksmithing, cooking, shooting, and farming. Each room features reproduction furniture and objects typical of New Mexico in the 1850s, and the Rayado Trading Company sells various historical reproductions.
On the coast
Serving Rayado, NM
The Kit Carson Museum is an adobe museum built in 1950 by Scouting America in Rayado, New Mexico. It serves as an interpretive area portraying the history and exploits of Lucien Maxwell and Kit Carson. Staff in period clothing demonstrate frontier skills such as blacksmithing, cooking, shooting, and farming. Each room features reproduction furniture and objects typical of New Mexico in the 1850s, and the Rayado Trading Company sells various historical reproductions.