Most of the interest in the Socorro region is outside town and is covered in the "Get out" section, but a couple of in-town points of interest:
The Socorro town plaza
with a cute park, a fragment from Jumbo, the vessel built to contain the first ever atomic bomb which was detonated at the Trinity test site in 1945, and a few gift shops.New Mexico Tech
(http://www.nmt.edu) is on the west side of town and has a mineralogical museum, some art, and a pleasant, if decidedly low-key, campus. Many of the cultural activities in town center on Tech. Don't visit expecting intercollegiate sports; apart from rugby and soccer, there basically aren't any, although the college does have a decent golf course.