The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum is in New Mexico and opened in Santa Fe in 1997.
The museum was established to preserve, study, and present O'Keeffe's art and life. Its collection includes paintings, drawings, photographs, and archival materials connected with her career. The institution also operates research and education programs related to modern art and the American Southwest.
New Mexico became central to O'Keeffe's life after she first visited the state in 1917. From the late 1920s onward, she returned frequently, and she eventually lived and worked there for much of the year. The state's cliffs, bones, adobe structures, and expansive skies became recurring subjects.
The museum is in Santa Fe, not in Wisconsin, where O'Keeffe was born, and not in New York, where she first became publicly known. Its location reflects the importance of New Mexico to her mature artistic identity.