MUSEUMS

Underwilderness

Presented by Heard Museum at Heard Museum

May 24, 2008 - Ongoing

Visitors can explore the monumental black and white drawings and installations of Navajo artist Tony Abeyta in this experimental contemporary art installation.

Wells Fargo History Museum

Presented by Wells Fargo History Museum at Wells Fargo History Museum

July 1, 2004 - Ongoing

From 1858 on the stagecoaches of the Butterfield Line, through wild days at Tombstone, to extensive railroad service to the mines, Wells Fargo's history in Arizona is classic western history. The museum includes an art gallery with the largest public display of illustrator N.C. Wyeth's western paintings.

Exhibits include a baseball-size gold nugget, an authentic Wells Fargo stagecoach and reproductions of a gold mine, railroad depot and express office will bring the Old West to life...

Berlin Agave Yucca Forest

Presented by Desert Botanical Garden at Desert Botanical Garden

November 21, 2009 - Ongoing

This new exhibit, made possible by a generous Tending the Garden Campaign gift from Howard and Joy Berlin, will showcase the diversity of the agave and nolina families.

Local landscape architect Bob Thompson of e group led the exhibit team through hardscape and planting concepts and design. The 11,000 square foot exhibit, located south of the Sybil B. Harrington Succulent Gallery, will bring dramatic new elements to the Garden. A large Yucca filifera, which was salvaged as...

Desert Walk Tour

Presented by Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation at Taliesin West

November 1, 2007 - Ongoing

A guided desert nature walk at Taliesin West allows you to explore rugged desert trails on the site, and experience the beauty Wright discovered 70 years ago. You will explore the beautiful foothills of the McDowell Mountains, with knowledgeable guides providing an in-depth, and entertaining explanation about the native materials found on the site. See firsthand the desert vegetation, and landforms that were translated into design elements by Wright. Evidence of desert wildlife (javelina,...

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - Exhibition Tours

Presented by Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art

July 8, 2007 - Ongoing

These special weekly tours are led by trained docents and cover a variety of exhibits within SMoCA.

Arizona Doll & Toy Museum

Presented by Arizona Doll & Toy Museum at Arizona Doll and Toy Museum

January 1, 2006 - Ongoing

Visit the Arizona Doll & Toy Museum, located in the Stevens House at Historic Heritage Square in downtown Phoenix. There are a variety of dolls and toys from yester-year, as well as familiar modern play-things. The scenario is constantly changing as Arizona collectors share their favorites. You will love the authentic schoolroom of 1912 featuring antique dolls as students. A fully stocked Gift Shop makes available unique gift items for children and adults who are young at...

Phoenix Police Museum

Presented by Phoenix Police Museum at Phoenix Police Museum

January 1, 2006 - Ongoing

In October 1993, the Phoenix Police Museum started as a small exhibit at the Historic City Hall. With the assistance of Cindy Myers from the Phoenix Museum of History, a temporary six-month display was created. The event was enthusiastically received.

The Arizona Humanities Council funded a study of the artifacts to determine if enough material existed to open a small museum and it was determined that there was. Barrister Place was selected as the permanent site of the museum. ...

Rosson House Museum

Presented by Rosson House Museum at Rosson House Museum

January 1, 2006 - Ongoing

Rosson House Museum is a beautifully restored 1895 historic home open for public tours in downtown Phoenix. This 2,800 sq. foot beautiful Eastlake architectural style Victorian home built in 1895 features ten rooms and five fireplaces. View what life was like for Rosson House residents of Block 14, owners and tenants both, in early Phoenix during Arizona's late territorial times all in its original location. Docent guided tours are held on the half hour and last approximately 30 minutes. ...

80th Anniversary Historical Tours

Presented by Arizona Biltmore Country Club Resort at Arizona Biltmore Resort and Spa

March 12, 2009 - Ongoing

Throughout the entire year, the Arizona Biltmore will be offering events and activities designed to celebrate it's 80th Anniversary.

Arizona Biltmore Historical Tours - Historical tours are offered to the public every Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday at 10am. The tours last approximately 1 hour, 15 minutes and are led by a Biltmore Certified Historian. Tour charge is $10 per person.

Arctic Spirit: Inuit Art From The Albrecht Collection

Presented by Heard Museum at Heard Museum

January 21, 2010 - Ongoing

The Heard Museum welcomes home Arctic Spirit: Inuit Art from the Albrecht Collection, a traveling exhibit of the Canadian Inuit's rich artistic history. Chosen from a Heard Museum collection donated by Daniel Albrecht, the sculptures, textiles and graphics offers a rare opportunity to view Inuit artwork. The Inuits, or Eskimos, are a society of natives who live mainly in Siberia, Alaska, Greenland and the Canadian Arctic. Although many consider these various groups to be homogenous,...

First Saturdays for Families

Presented by ASU Art Museum at ASU Art Museum

September 5, 2009 - Ongoing

First Saturdays for Families is a program at the ASU Art Museum that helps teach children about art and encourages them to be creative. Stop by on the first Saturday of each month (excluding holidays) to learn about one artist whose work is in the museum, and then make your own project based on what that artist does.

Pioneer Living History Village

Presented by Pioneer Living History Village at Pioneer Living History Village

December 20, 2005 - Ongoing

Located 30 minutes north of downtown Phoenix, the Pioneer Living History Village has over 90 acres of an old 1800s village, with no cars or smog - just original buildings and historically accurate reproductions.

See the Opera House where Lilly Langtry sang; look through a rifle port in the actual cabin that survived Arizona's bloodiest range war; or browse through an 1890s dress shop and much more! All of this, plus a working blacksmith shop, critter corral, sheriff's office and jail,...

Around The World: The Heard Museum Collection

Presented by Heard Museum at Heard Museum

November 18, 2006 - Ongoing

Tour the global span of the Heard Museum's permanent collection. This exhibit will focus on more than 75 years of collecting and preserving Native art and cultures in the Southwest and beyond. Starting with examples of work collected by museum founders, Dwight and Maie Heard, and including donations by artists and collectors such as Byron Harvey and Richard Faletti, the exhibit features objects and artwork from indigenous peoples of North and South America as well as Oceania.

Ellie and Michael Ziegler Fiesta Bowl Museum

Presented by Ziegler Fiesta Bowl Center and Museum at Ziegler Fiesta Bowl Center and Museum

September 10, 2008 - Ongoing

Celebrate Arizona's history in the growth of college football at the Ziegler Fiesta Bowl Center and Museum. It highlights the Fiesta Bow's 37-year tradition in the Valley of the Sun and features exhibits on the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, Insight Bowl, history of college football and the Fiesta Bowl s community based Festival of College Football events. Patrons will also marvel at the rare collegiate artifacts featured in the museum, including all 120 Football Bowl Subdivision football helmets, a...

The Book of Kells Museum

Presented by The Irish Cultural Center at The Irish Cultural Center

December 17, 2004 - Ongoing

The Book of Kells Museum is now completed! Located inside the Irish Cottage at The Irish Cultural Center a masterpiece of Celtic Art awaits. Only a limited 1,480 copies of the historic Book of Kells have been issued. Museums and universities around the world quickly purchased these famous copies except for one.

Irish Cultural Center member and valley businessman, Sean Lee, owns the only known privately owned copy of the Book of Kells, which dates back to 800 AD. Born in Kells Ireland,...

The Americas Gallery

Presented by ASU Art Museum at ASU Art Museum

January 1, 2005 - Ongoing

In May 2004, the ASU Art Museum broke down the barriers between the United States and Latin America and reinstalled its former American Gallery as the new Americas Gallery. The Americas Gallery features artwork from North, Central and South America, grouped by three themes: Faces, Work and Space/Place. This shift replaces the standard chronologic installation with topics addressed in works from all of the Americas. The diversity of art forms creates interactions among works of art, suggesting...

Chandler High School Exhibit

Presented by Chandler Museum at Chandler Museum

January 1, 2005 - Ongoing

When Chandler High School was completed in 1922, it was considered the best equipped and the finest structure of its kind. Built for $250,000 Chandler High was semi-fireproof with only 2-percent wood in its construction. The school had grand pillars, a front garden landscape, 30 class and experimental rooms, physics laboratory, domestic science room able to accommodate 28 in cooking, an auditorium with open beams for perfect acoustics able to seat 1000, and most impressively the school had a...

San Marcos Hotel Exhibit

Presented by Chandler Museum at Chandler Museum

January 1, 2005 - Ongoing

Designed by Arthur Burnett Benton, a pioneer of the Mission Revival style of architecture, the San Marcos Hotel came to be known as one of the most prestigious hotels in the country drawing the rich and famous from all over the United States. Celebrities such as Christian Dior, Errol Flynn and Fred Astaire were among the seasonal visitors.

Cotton & Classrooms: Chandler's Goodyear School

Presented by Chandler Museum at Chandler Museum

January 1, 2005 - Ongoing

A country school in a "company town", Chandler's Goodyear School was located in south Chandler in the early 1900's. Examine this exhibit and learn the history of this school and how it reflects the Goodyear Company's significance to the community, the socio-economics of the times, the ups and downs of farming, as well as race relations in Arizona where school segregation was the norm until 1953.

Chandler Fire Department Exhibit

Presented by Chandler Museum at Chandler Museum

January 1, 2005 - Ongoing

Enjoy viewing historic artifacts and photographs of the Chandler Fire Department. Take a look at the fire department's history from the past to the present, and pick up some fire safety tips!

Dr. A.J. Chandler

Presented by Chandler Museum at Chandler Museum

January 1, 2005 - Ongoing

Born and educated in Quebec, Canada, the city of Chandler owes not only its name to Dr. A.J. Chandler, but its entire framework. Dr. Chandler planned out the city's design (based on "The City Beautiful" project). He started the Consolidated Canal Co. which was responsible for the irrigation of land from the Salt River. He and his brother Harry brought hydro-electricity to Chandler and purchased thousands of acres of land for farming cotton. Dr. Chandler was the founder of the Bank of...

Tenthouse Exhibit

Presented by Chandler Museum at Chandler Museum

January 1, 2005 - Ongoing

The promise of work, cheap land and a new town with a great growing season drew settlers from all over the United States to Chandler. While the business district of Chandler grew quickly, the residential areas developed more slowly. Building materials were expensive, so most settlers erected tenthouses on their town site lots. By 1912, these temporary structures dotted the Chandler landscape. Dr. A.J. Chandler, who sold the lots on which the tenthouses were built, did not want the area to...

Arizona B.C. (Before Chandler)

Presented by Chandler Museum at Chandler Museum

January 1, 2005 - Ongoing

Discover the first settlers, the Hohokam, explore their agriculture, architecture, and arts. View pottery and artifacts from 300 B.C. to 1450 A.D. Learn about the Hohokam canal system, which served as the blueprint for today's canal system. The exhibit includes the distinctive Hohokam Red-on-buff pottery, along with a variety of tools, and shell and stone jewelry.

Arizona Railway Museum

Presented by Arizona Railway Museum at Arizona Railway Museum

January 12, 2005 - Ongoing

The Arizona Railway Museum was founded and incorporated in 1983 as a non-profit, educational and historical organization. The Museum is dedicated to the railways of Arizona and the Southwest. The interest and fascination of railways and trains has no boundaries and so railways of all kinds are included in the scope of the Museum. The Arizona Railway Museum is a community effort towards the acquisition, restoration, preservation and display of railway equipment, artifacts and mementos...

Arizona Military Museum

Presented by Arizona Military Museum at Arizona Military Museum

January 12, 2005 - Ongoing

The Arizona Military Museum has displays of uniforms, vehicles, artillery and miscellaneous mementos from military encounters dating all the way back to the Spanish Conquistadors. As the displays progress from the Civil War to the Indian and Spanish-American Wars, both World Wars, Korea, Vietnam and, finally, Desert Storm, the scope of Arizona's extensive military history takes shape. In a newly expanded room dedicated to POWs and MIAs, you can look down on a complex diorama showing how the 25...

Scottsdale Historical Museum

Presented by Scottsdale Historical Society Museum at Scottsdale Historical Society Museum

January 12, 2005 - Ongoing

Visit the permanent exhibits featuring the life and deeds of Winfield Scott, the founding father of Scottsdale, Arizona, how a one-room schoolhouse might have looked during the 1800s and through the early 1900s, and many other fascinating topics.

Home: Native People of the Southwest

Presented by Heard Museum at Heard Museum

May 22, 2005 - Ongoing

"As the centerpiece of the Heard Museum experience, Home will give visitors an unparalleled look into the arts and cultures of Southwestern Native peoples," says Frank H. Goodyear, Jr., director of the Heard Museum.

The central theme of Home reflects the importance of family, community, land and languages - commonalities that play an important role in the lives of all Native people. These stories will be told through first-person recollections, photomurals and objects...

The Doorways to the Past: Hohokam Houses

Presented by Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park at Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park

January 1, 2005 - Ongoing

The Doorways to the Past: Hohokam Houses exhibit is located along the Ruin Trail and consists of an adobe compound and pit-house cluster. Artifact replicas and other features give the visitor the experience of walking back in time to visit the ancient Hohokam people at Pueblo Grande.

The Hohokam constructed a number of features used for domestic purposes. This type of architecture would have probably been constructed and used by immediate or extended family groups. Domestic...

The Hohokam: The Land and the People

Presented by Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park at Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park

January 1, 2005 - Ongoing

The Hohokam: The Land and the People, explores Hohokam agriculture, architecture and arts. Learn about the Hohokam canal system, which served as the blueprint for today's canal system. The exhibit includes the distinctive Hohokam Red-on-buff pottery, along with a variety of tools, and shell and stone jewelry.

Searching for Mesa: Finding Ourselves in our History

Presented by Mesa Historical Museum at Mesa Historical Museum

June 24, 2008 - Ongoing

Encompassing 2,000 years of Mesa's history, "Searching for Mesa: Finding Ourselves in our History" tells the story of Mesa through over 200 historic photographs, unique artifacts, biographies, oral histories, and hand-on experiences. Visitors will follow Mesa's rise to become the 40th largest city in the U.S.

The Schuff Perini Climber

Presented by Children's Museum of Phoenix at Children's Museum of Phoenix

May 21, 2010 - Ongoing

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The Children's Museum of Phoenix will open its most amazing exhibit ever: The Schuff-Perini Climber, a 37 foot tall, 50 ton, jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring, nothing-like-it-anywhere-else-in-the-world climbing structure. The iconic exhibit is a much-anticipated milestone for the nearly two-year-old museum.

Made of 50 tons of steel, the installation of the Climber began late September, 2009. Since then, visitors have watched the Museum's three-story-high atrium transform from an...

Building Big

Presented by Children's Museum of Phoenix at Children's Museum of Phoenix

March 11, 2010 - Ongoing

The Children's Museum of Phoenix unveiled a new exhibit recently called Building Big. This active, inventive zone highlights one of those favorite childhood activities that we all remember - building forts! Using everyday items like blankets, pillows, crates, pool noodles, and foam planks, children create all sorts of nooks, crannies and secret places: from small snug hiding spots, to large, long, tunnels. The room's centerpiece is a large tree-like structure which children can climb...

Best of the West Art Exhibition

Presented by Desert Caballeros Western Museum at Desert Caballeros Western Museum

May 21, 2010 - Ongoing

Join Desert Caballeros Western Museum in an art exhibition, Best of the West.

All About Me

Presented by Arizona Science Center at Arizona Science Center

September 27, 2010 - Ongoing

Arizona Science Center is proud to announce the opening of its newest permanent gallery offering, All About Me, which opens in the Steele Foundation Gallery! Made possible through the $30 million The Future of Education is Science capital and endowment program, this exciting new gallery offers guests a dynamic experience to further inspire, educate and entertain people of all ages about science!

All About Me explores the complexities of the human body, showcase a new,...

Choices and Change: American Indian Artists in the Southwest

Presented by Heard Museum North Scottsdale at Heard Museum North Scottsdale

September 1, 2011 - Ongoing

Change is an underlying premise of American Indian art that is often overlooked. In this exhibition, art is clearly shown to be the bridge between a past rich in tradition and a dynamic, ever-changing current and future culture. See jewelry, sculpture, pottery and paintings from the Heard's collection that exemplify the innovations and the vast differences in the artists' personal creations.

The Finley Boys: Arizona's Royal Family of Rodeo

Presented by Tempe History Museum at Tempe History Museum

April 18, 2011 - Ongoing

The Finley Boys: Arizona's Royal Family of Rodeo tells the story of three brothers from a local ranching family who grew up to be national rodeo stars from the 1930s through the 1950s. Learn about the Finleys and the history of rodeo through displays and interactive elements that will appeal to all ages. The exhibit is open through 2011.

Someplace

Presented by Children's Museum of Phoenix at Children's Museum of Phoenix

November 25, 2011 - Ongoing

Someplace where make-believe creations reside, is scheduled to open to the general public last November 25 at the Children's Museum of Phoenix. This is the Museum's first new exhibit opening since the grand opening of their one-of-a-kind climbing structure, the Schuff-Perini Climber, in May, 2010.

The exhibit is created by the Museum's artist-in-residence Pete Goldsmith and the Museum's Exhibits Team. The artist-in residence program is made possible through grants received...

Beyond Geronimo: The Apache Experience

Presented by Heard Museum at Heard Museum

February 11, 2012 - Ongoing

The name "Geronimo" has become known internationally as both the name of a legendary Apache leader and as a synonym for anything "Apache." Common stereotypes relating to Geronimo have persisted in hundreds of books and television and movie scripts. Beyond Geronimo examines the celebrity attached to Geronimo, and the resulting misrepresentations of Apache culture and heritage that followed the intense media attention focused on one man and his battle with the U.S. government. Beyond...

Elegance From Earth: Hopi Pottery

Presented by Heard Museum at Heard Museum

March 24, 2012 - Ongoing

This exhibit features families of Hopi potters, who often learn pottery techniques from elders and share designs. These superlative artists truly create elegance from earth. Potters with artworks on display in the exhibit include Nampeyo, Helen Naha and Joy Navasie, among others.

Peabody Energy, the world's largest private-sector coal company, has come on board as sponsor for the new exhibition, Elegance From Earth: Hopi Pottery, which opens at the Heard Museum on March 24 and...

Good to Grow! Food, Health and Art

Presented by Arizona Museum For Youth at Arizona Museum For Youth

September 27, 2013-January 5, 2014

Arizona Museum For Youth presents Good to Grow! Food, Health and Art.

Around the World (Art About Travel)

Presented by Arizona Museum For Youth at Arizona Museum For Youth

May 24-September 8, 2013

Arizona Museum For Youth presents Around the World (Art About Travel).

Rulers of the Prehistoric Skies

Presented by Arizona Museum of Natural History at Arizona Museum of Natural History

February 4, 2012-July 4, 2013

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it's a Pterosaur!

From the size of a sparrow to the size of an airplane meet the flying reptiles from Earth's distant past as they soar into the Arizona Museum of Natural History. Pterosaurs were the coolest things that were ever in the air; and they were the first vertebrates to fly. They did it long before birds and bats. And in terms of size, they pushed the envelope with Quetzalcoatlus. AzMNH is in the process of purchasing a replica skeleton of...

Dragons and Fairies: Exploring Vietnam through Folktales

Presented by Arizona Museum For Youth at Arizona Museum For Youth

February 8-May 5, 2013

Arizona Museum For Youth presents Dragons and Fairies: Exploring Vietnam through Folktales.

Playball - The Cactus League Experience Exhibit

Presented by Arizona Historical Society Museum at Papago Park at Arizona Historical Society Museum at Papago Park

February 11, 2011-March 31, 2013

The exhibit features photos and objects from your favorite teams and players that you won't see anywhere else in America! Fans ready for spring training won't want to miss this nostalgic look at the Cactus League story. Mark your calendars for Play Ball's big opening day.

Namingha Family: Landscape, Form and Light

Presented by Heard Museum at Heard Museum

February 25, 2012-February 28, 2013

Phoenix, AZ: Spanning two generations and embracing a rich variety of media, Namingha Family: Landscape, Form and Light, which opens on February 25 at the Heard, will explore contemporary expressions of Tewa/Hopi tradition as seen through the works of three remarkable artists.

Dan Namingha has won international acclaim for his painting and sculpture, which contextualizes traditional Hopi imagery within the artist's own distinctive visual style. Dan's work will be seen...

Show Me the Money

Presented by Arizona Museum For Youth at Arizona Museum For Youth

September 28, 2012-January 20, 2013

Arizona Museum For Youth presents Show Me the Money at North Gallery.

The Pictures Tell the Story: Continuity and Change in Tempe

Presented by Tempe History Museum at Tempe History Museum

January 7-December 31, 2012

Visit the Tempe History Museum's Arizona Statehood Centennial photo exhibit hanging in the Museum's community room. Guest curated by local photographer Dick George, this photo-story tells of the ordinary people, events, and trends that have shaped Tempe over the last 100 years.

Public Opening: Saturday, January 7, open at 10:00am, Dick George will give a short presentation at 11:00am.

Through the Lens: Dine Photographers

Presented by Heard Museum North Scottsdale at Heard Museum North Scottsdale

June 12-November 25, 2012

On loan from the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, Arizona, this thought-provoking exhibition of work by contemporary Navajo photographers marks the first time ever that a show curated by a regional museum of American Indian arts and culture has traveled to the Heard. This juried show will present a fascinating and diverse range of photographers and subject matter.

"100 Years, 100 Ranchers" Centennial Exhibition

Presented by Desert Caballeros Western Museum at Desert Caballeros Western Museum

March 17-October 7, 2012

Come to Desert Caballeros Western Museum for the 100 Years, 100 Ranchers Centennial Exhibition.

Metals and More

Presented by Phoenix Airport Museum at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport

April 1-September 30, 2012

This exhibition presents the work of fourteen artists who carry on the ancient tradition of metalsmithing. This ever changing art form presents contemporary artists the opportunity to pair convention with innovation.

Working with traditional materials such as silver, brass, copper and gemstones, these artists may also integrate other materials such as cork, wood, plastics or found objects such as vintage photographs and toys from vending machines. With creative combinations of new...