Casa Camino Real is a bookstore, art gallery and community resource center that celebrates literature and the arts in the borderland region of New Mexico, West Texas and Northern México. Casa Camino Real is a bookstore, art gallery and community resource center that celebrates literature and the arts in the borderland region of New Mexico, Texas and Northern México. We are now open by appointment.
Please call ahead to connect with us. 575-649-9173. We believe books are for everyone. When you enter our historic adobe, our motto is "This is the temple where books are sacred." We focus on Chicano/Chicana/Latino/Latina, Southwestern, Native American and Borderland literature but have many collections online including The Sherman Wengard Science and Geology Collection, The Golden Age of Spain Collection, a Collection of Photography from the Estate of Photographer John Running, A World Erotica Collection and a Collection of the work and archives of poet, Margaret Randall. We began our work over 20 years ago as a book festival but have concentrated over the years in archiving and preserving the history of our region through the development of Museo de La Gente/Museum of the People, an arts residency center, a resource library, a workshop & exhibit space as well as a venue for multi-cultural, multi-generational and multi-ethnic literary, literacy, music and arts events for audiences of all ages and backgrounds. We welcome visitors from around the globe and believe we can heal and transform the world one cup of Mexican coffee--café de la olla--and one book at a time.
