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Center of Southwest Studies

Fort Lewis College established The Center of Southwest Studies in 1964 to serve as a museum and a research facility for the history of the Southwest. The center is the crown jewel for research in the Southwest.

The Center of Southwest Studies is now an $8 million, 48,000 square-foot facility on campus. It features a 4,400 square-foot gallery, a 2,000 square-foot archives and special collections research library, and a lyceum seating 100-plus for lectures and public programs.

The gallery exhibits continually change with traveling exhibits of photography and artifacts of the greater Southwest. Always on display are samples from the Durango Collection ®, which represents 800 years of weaving in the Southwest with one of a kind, rare prehistoric and historic textiles from Pueblo, Navajo, and Hispano weaving traditions.

Fort Lewis College has free tuition for Native American students who work at the Center and assist with curation and exhibit preparation. The Center also offers hands-on for-credit and non-credit career training internships and work-study experiences for students and the community.

Additional exhibit cases are in the Robert Delaney Southwest Research Library, which has more than 185,000 photographs, hundreds of maps, and over 16,000 volumes on the Southwest.

Visitors, volunteers and researchers are always welcome.

The Center of Southwest Studies is the crown jewel for research of the Southwest.