Las Cruces Museums Complex
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The Branigan Cultural Center was built in 1935 as the city's first true public library, funded largely by a $35,000 bequest of Alice Branigan in honor of her husband Thomas Branigan. It also housed city offices and still contains a mural by noted western artist Tom Lea. In 1979 the City constructed a new Thomas Branigan Memorial Library on the site of the former Lucero School, on East Picacho Avenue. The City soon found a new use for the old library as a showcase for art, music, and culture. The Branigan Cultural Center. Since the city's addition of the Museum of Art and the Museum of Nature and Science, the museum corridor is complete.
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