Museums in Arizona
Name
Yuma Territorial
Prison
Location
County
Yuma
Yuma
Yuma
Yuma
Flagstaff
Coconino
Region
West
Coast
Area of
study
Prison
Website/Summary
Historic prison
Yuma
Quartermaster
Depot State
West
Coast
Military
Former United States Army
logistics facility
Historic Park
Wupatki National
Monument
North
Ethnic - Native
Includes Ancient Pueblo People
Central
American
ruins and visitor center museum
website, includes antique
World's Smallest
Museum
Superior
Pinal
Phoenix
area
History
household items, tools, movie
equipment, mining artifacts,
political memorabilia[11]
White Mountain
Apache Cultural
Whiteriver
Navajo
Northeast
Center & Museum
Ethnic - Native
American
website, history and culture of
the Apache, located inFort Apache
Indian Reservation
American West history and
Wells Fargo
History Museum
Phoenix
Maricopa
Phoenix
area
the Wells Fargo Company,
History
includes a 19th-century
stagecoach, art gallery of N.C.
Wyeth’s western-themed work
Walnut Canyon
National
Monument
Flagstaff
Coconino
North
Central
Includes cliff dwelling rooms
Archaeology
constructed by the Sinagua people
and visitor center museum
Name
US Army
Intelligence
Museum
Location
Fort
Huachuca
County
Region
Area of
study
Website/Summary
Evolution of the intelligence art
Cochise
Southern
Military
within the U.S. Army, located
at Fort Huachuca
Exhibits from its collections in
Contemporary American poetry
from the 1950s to the present,
University of
Arizona Poetry
Tucson
Pima
Southern
Literary
Center
collection also includes rare books,
limited-edition and artist books,
chapbooks, broadsides,
photographs, and audiovisual
recordings
University of
Arizona Museum
Emphasis on European and
Tucson
Pima
Southern
Art
of Art
American fine art from the
Renaissance to the present
University of
Arizona Mineral
Tucson
Pima
Southern
Geology
Minerals, meteorites, mining
Museum
website, operated by the Quartzsite
Tyson's Well
Stage Station
Quartzsite
La Paz
Museum
Tuzigoot National
Monument
Park
Coast
History - Local
Historical Society, includes history
and equipment for mining for gold,
lead and mercury, minerals
Clarkdale
Tumacácori
National Historical
West
Nogales
Yavapai
Santa
Cruz
North
Central
Southern
Archaeology
History
Pueblo ruins and visitor center
museum
Ruins of three Spanish mission
communities and a museum,
Name
Location
County
Region
Area of
study
Website/Summary
consists of 360 acres (1.5 km2) in
three separate units
Tucson Rodeo
Parade Museum
Tucson Museum
of Art
website, includes cowboy gear,
Tucson
Pima
Southern
History
rodeo memorabilia,horse-drawn
vehicles
website, collection includes art of
Tucson
Pima
Southern
Art
American West, the Americas,
modern and contemporary art
Includes ruins of the Tubac
Tubac Presidio
State Historic Park
Tubac
Santa
Cruz
Southern
History
Presidio, furnished 1885
schoolhouse, museum about the
area's historic periods
Tubac Center for
the Arts
Trail Dust Town
Tubac
Tucson
Tonto National
Santa
Cruz
Pima
Gila
Monument
Southern
Art
Southern
Multiple
North
Ethnic - Native
Central
American
Southern
History
website, includes exhibit gallery
Includes the Museum of the Horse
Soldier, Trail Dust Town Railroad
Includes 13th to 15th century
Salado culture cliff dwellings and
visitor center museum
Tombstone
Courthouse State
Historic Park
Tombstone
Cochise
Restored 1880s courthouse
Name
Tohono O'odham
Nation Cultural
Center & Museum
Location
County
Region
Pima
Southern
Area of
Website/Summary
study
Tohono
O'odham
Indian
Ethnic - Native
information, history and culture of
American
the Tohono O'odham
Reservation
Botanical garden with collections of
Tohono Chul
Casas
Adobes
the Sonoran Desertand changing
Pima
Southern
Natural history
art exhibits illustrating the
connections between nature, art
and culture in the Southwest
Titan Missile
Museum
Tempe History
Museum
Tempe Center for
the Arts
Taylor Pioneer
Museum
Taliesin West
Sylvia Plotkin
Judaica Museum
Sahuarita
Pima
Tempe
Maricopa
Tempe
Maricopa
Taylor
Navajo
Scottsdale
Maricopa
Scottsdale
Maricopa
Southern
Phoenix
area
Phoenix
area
Northeast
Phoenix
area
Phoenix
area
Military
History - Local
Art
History - Local
Historic house
Former ICBM missile site and
missile exhibits
website, city history, community art
gallery
Includes the Gallery at TCA, a free
public visual art gallery
information, information
Architect Frank Lloyd
Wright's winter home and school
website, Jewish culture, history and
Jewish
art, operated byCongregation Beth
Israel
Name
Location
County
Region
Area of
Website/Summary
study
website, complex includes
reproductions of 19th century
Superstition
Apache
Mountain Museum
Junction
Maricopa
Phoenix
area
Multiple
businesses, area rock specimens,
displays about area natural history,
Native American, and military
history.
Superstition
Mountain Lost
Apache
Dutchman
Junction
Maricopa
Phoenix
area
Mining
website, mining equipment and
tools
Museum
Sunnyslope
Historical Society
Phoenix
Maricopa
Snowflake
Navajo
Museum
Stinson Pioneer
Museum
Phoenix
area
Northeast
History - Local
website
History - Local
information
Navajo culture of the early 20th
St. Michaels
Museum
St. Michaels
Apache
Northeast
Ethnic - Native
century, located in the 1898 St.
American
Michaels Mission of Francison
Friars[10]
Southwest
website, mostly a research facility,
Museum of
Engineering,
Communications
and Computation
Glendale
Maricopa
Phoenix
area
Technology
call before visiting, technological
devices related to communications
and computation
Name
Location
County
Region
Area of
study
Located in a depot, includes a
Southern Arizona
Transportation
Tucson
Pima
Southern
Railroad
Museum
Sosa-CarrilloFremont House
Smoki Museum
Website/Summary
steam locomotive, railroad and
Arizona transportation history
exhibits
Late 19th-entury adobe house,
Tucson
Pima
Southern
Historic house
open by appointment theArizona
Historical Society
Prescott
Yavapai
North
Ethnic - Native
Central
American
Artifacts, art and culture of the
indigenous cultures of the
Southwest
Complex includes adobe ranch
Slaughter Ranch
Douglas
Cochise
Southern
Historic house
house, ice house, wash house,
granary, commissary, and car shed
Sirrine House
Show Low
Museum
Mesa
Maricopa
Show Low
Navajo
Shemer Art Center Phoenix
Sharlot Hall
Museum
Prescott
Maricopa
Yavapai
Phoenix
area
Northeast
Phoenix
area
North
Central
Historic house
History - Local
website, 1896 Victorian period
house, open for special events
website, operated by the Show
Low Historical Society
Arts education center and
Art
contemporary arts museum of
Arizona art
Includes several 19th century
Open air
period buildings and homes and a
history museum
Name
Sedona Heritage
Museum
Location
County
Sedona
Yavapai
Scottsdale
Maricopa
Scottsdale
Maricopa
Scottsdale
Maricopa
Scottsdale's
Museum of the
West
Scottsdale
Museum of
Contemporary Art
Scottsdale
Historical Museum
Region
North
Central
Phoenix
area
Phoenix
area
Phoenix
area
Area of
study
History - Local
Multiple
Art
History - Local
Website/Summary
website
website, art, culture and history of
19 Western states
Contemporary and modern art,
architecture, and design
website
website. operated by the Arizona
Sanguinetti House
Museum
Yuma
Yuma
West
Coast
History - Local
Historical Society, history of the
Lower Colorado River from the
1540s to the present
Sahuaro Ranch
Park Historical
Glendale
Maricopa
Area
Rosson House
Phoenix
Maricopa
Phoenix
area
Phoenix
area
Late 19th century fruit ranch with
Farm
13 original buildings, a rose
garden, barnyard and orchards
Historic house
Victorian period house, located in
Historic Heritage Square
website, Yavapai culture,
River of Time
Fountain
Museum
Hills
Maricopa
Phoenix
area
Multiple
archaeology, geology, mining,
pioneers, Fort McDowell,
Roosevelt Dam
Name
Riordan Mansion
State Historic Park
Location
Flagstaff
County
Coconino
Region
North
Central
Area of
study
Historic house
Website/Summary
1904 Arts and Crafts style mansion
website, operated by the Northern
Rim Country
Museum
Payson
Gila
North
Central
History - Local
Gila County Historical Society,
complex includes museum
and Zane Grey cabin
Rex Allen Arizona
Cowboy Museum
and Willcox
Willcox
Cochise
Phoenix
Maricopa
Page
Coconino
Southern
Biographical
Cowboy Hall of
Memorabilia of Western actor and
singer Rex Allen
Fame
Pueblo Grande
Museum
Archaeological
Phoenix
area
Archaeology
1,500 year-old Hohokam village
ruins and excavated artifacts
Park
Powell Museum
Postal History
Foundation
Planes of Fame
North
Central
History - Local
website, includes exhibits on
explorations of John Wesley Powell
website, includes turn-of-theTucson
Pima
Southern
Philatelic
century frontier post office and
postal exhibits
Valle
Coconino
North
Central
Aerospace
Features rare and one-of-a-kind
classic aircraft
Name
Location
County
Pipe Spring
National
Kaibab
Mohave
Monument
Pioneer Living
History Village
Pinetop-Lakeside
Historical Society
Museum
Pine-Strawberry
Museum
Phoenix
PinetopLakeside
Pine
Pimeria Alta
Historical Society
Nogales
and Museum
Maricopa
Navajo
Gila
Santa
Cruz
Region
North
Central
Phoenix
area
Northeast
North
Central
Southern
Pima County
Sports Hall of
Museum
Phoenix Police
Museum
Phoenix Art
Museum
study
Multiple
Living history
19th century Old West town
History - Local
website
website, includes prehistoric and
History - Local
pioneer artifacts, period antiques
and room displays
History - local
Hall of fame -
Southern
Tucson
Pima
Southern
Aerospace
Phoenix
Maricopa
Phoenix
Law
area
enforcement
Phoenix
Maricopa
area
Paiute Indians,Mormons, pioneer,
natural history, historic fort tours
Pima
Phoenix
Website/Summary
Includes exhibits about the Kaibab
Tucson
Fame
Pima Air & Space
Area of
Sports
Art
website, located in the Historic
1904 Courthouse
website, Arizona sports history
Includes over 275 commercial and
military aircraft and spacecraft
website
Collection includes American,
Asian, European, Latin American,
Name
Location
County
Region
Area of
Website/Summary
study
Western American, modern and
contemporary art, and fashion
design
website, includes permanent
Phoenix Airport
Museum
Phoenix
Maricopa
Phoenix
area
Art
pieces and changing exhibits in the
terminals of Phoenix Sky Harbor
International Airport
Phippen Museum
Prescott
Yavapai
North
Central
website, American Western art
Art
including works byGeorge
Phippen and Solon Borglum
Includes dinosaur and fossil
Petrified Forest
Navajo
National Park
Northeast
Natural history
exhibits in the Rainbow Forest
Museum, and exhibits in
the Painted Desert InnMuseum
Petersen House
Museum
Tempe
Old Trails Museum Winslow
Navajo National
Monument
Navajo Nation
Window
Museum
Rock
Maricopa
Phoenix
area
Navajo
Northeast
Navajo
Northeast
Apache
Northeast
Historic house
History - Local
Late 19th century Victorian period
house
website, operated by the Winslow
Historical Society
Ethnic - Native
Three intact cliff dwellings of the
American
Ancestral Puebloan people
Ethnic - Native
History and culture of the Navajo
American
Nation[8][9]
Name
Navajo Interactive
Museum
Location
County
Tuba City
Coconino
Holbrook
Navajo
Phoenix
Maricopa
Phoenix
Maricopa
Flagstaff
Coconino
Tucson
Pima
Region
Area of
study
North
Ethnic - Native
Central
American
Northeast
History - Local
Navajo County
Historical Society
Museum
Mystery Castle
Musical Instrument
Museum
Museum of
Northern Arizona
Phoenix
area
Phoenix
area
Historic house
Music
North
Ethnic - Native
Central
American
Southern
Art
Website/Summary
website
website, located in the former
county courthouse
1930s 18-room, three story castle
Musical instruments from around
the world
Also natural history displays
Museum of
Contemporary Art,
Tucson
website, complex includes local
history museum with exhibits of
Museum of Casa
Casa
Grande
Grande
Pinal
Phoenix
area
railroads, agriculture, mining, a
Multiple
schoolhouse, a stone church, a
barn and vintage fire engines,
operated by the Casa Grande
Valley Historical Society
Muheim Heritage
House Museum
website, operated by the Bisbee
Bisbee
Cochise
Southern
Historic house
Mining and Historical Museum,
early 20th century period home
Name
Location
County
Camp Verde
Yavapai
Monument
Mohave Museum
of History and Arts
Modified Arts
Area of
Website/Summary
study
Preserved cliff dwellings built by
Montezuma Castle
National
Region
North
Ethnic - Native
the pre-Columbian Sinagua people
Central
American
around 700 AD and a museum
about the builders
Kingman
Mohave
Phoenix
Maricopa
West
Coast
Phoenix
area
History - Local
Art
website, also changing exhibits of
local art, collections online
Contemporary art gallery, music
venue and performance space
website, over 300 antique and
Mini Time Machine Tucson
Pima
Southern
Doll
contemporary dollhouses and
roomboxes
Mine Museum
Jerome
Yavapai
North
Central
History - Local
website, operated by the Jerome
Historical Society
website, part of Eastern Arizona
College, collection of ancient
Mills Collection
Thatcher
Graham
Southeast
Archaeology
Native American pottery,
arrowheads, jewelry and artifacts
on public display
Visitor center exhibits about space,
Meteor Crater
Winslow
Coconino
Northeast
Natural history
meteorites and asteroids, the solar
system, and the Shoemaker-Levy 9
comet
Mesa Historical
Museum
Mesa
Maricopa
Phoenix
area
History - Local
Name
Mesa Arts Center
McFarland State
Historic Park
Location
Mesa
Florence
County
Maricopa
Pinal
Region
Phoenix
area
Phoenix
area
Area of
study
Art
Website/Summary
Includes Mesa Contemporary Arts,
which houses five art galleries
Historic courthouse and jail,
History
exhibits about Arizona's Territorial
history and law and order
Includes a 15" gauge railroad, a
McCormickStillman Railroad
Scottsdale
Maricopa
Park
Phoenix
area
Magma Arizona Railroad
Railroad
locomotive, a railroad museum,
three model railroad clubs and a
7.5" gauge live steam railroad
Maynard Dixon
Museum
Martin Auto
Museum
Manistee Ranch
Lauridsen Aviation
Museum
Lake Havasu
Museum of History
La Pilita Museum
website, works by artist Maynard
Tucson
Pima
Southern
Art
Dixon, including original oils,
watercolors, drawings and poetry
Phoenix
Maricopa
Glendale
Maricopa
Buckeye
Maricopa
Lake Havasu
Mohave
Tucson
Pima
Phoenix
area
Phoenix
area
Phoenix
area
West
Coast
Southern
website, numerous historic
Automobile
automobiles, 100+ years worth of
automobile history
Historic house
Operated by the Glendale Arizona
Historical Society
Aviation
Vintage and World War II aircraft[7]
History - Local
website
History - Local
website
Name
Location
County
L. Ron Hubbard
House at
Phoenix
Maricopa
Camelback
Region
Phoenix
area
Area of
Website/Summary
study
website, house where L. Ron
Biographical
Hubbard developed the theories
of Scientology
Tohono
Kitt Peak National
O'odham
Observatory
Indian
Pima
Southern
Science
Astronomy
Reservation
Kannally Ranch
House
John Bell Railroad
Museum
Jewish History
Museum
Jerome State
Historic Park
International
Wildlife Museum
Innovation Gallery
Oracle
Clarkdale
Pinal
Yavapai
Southern
Arizona
North
Central
Historic house
Part of Oracle State Park, 1930s
adobe ranch home
Located in the depot of the Verde
Railroad
Canyon Railroad, aheritage
railroad
Houses in a historic synagogue,
Tucson
Pima
Southern
Jewish
history of the Jewish community in
Arizona
Jerome
Yavapai
North
Central
History - Local
Exhibits include local history and
copper mining
website, dioramas of insects,
Tucson
Pima
Southern
Natural history
mammals and bird from around the
world
Tempe
Maricopa
Phoenix
area
Part of Arizona State University,
Anthropology
changing exhibits of culture, part of
the ASU Center for Archaeology
Name
Location
County
Region
Area of
Website/Summary
study
and Society, formerly the ASU
Museum of Anthropology[6][3]
I.d.e.a. Museum
Huhugam Ki
Museum
Huhugam Heritage
Center
Mesa
Scottsdale
Chandler
Maricopa
Maricopa
Maricopa
Phoenix
area
Focus is on fine art and creativity,
Children's
Youth
Ethnic - Native
area
American
Phoenix
Ethnic - Native
website, history and culture of
area
American
the Gila River Indian Community
Park
the O'odham (Pima) andPiipaash
(Maricopa)
Historic trading post and family
Ganado
Apache
Northeast
Historic house
Historic Site
Homolovi State
website, history and culture of
Phoenix
Hubbell Trading
Post National
formerly the Arizona Museum for
homestead with barn, bunkhouse,
guest hogan, historic farm
equipment and animals
Winslow
Navajo
Northeast
Archaeology
Artifacts from over 300 Ancestral
Puebloan archaeological sites
website, part of the University of
History of
Pharmacy
Arizona College of Pharmacy,
Tucson
Pima
Southern
Medical
Museum
includes bottles, original drug
containers, drug store fixtures and
historic artifacts
Historic Route 66
Museum
Kingman
Mohave
West
Coast
Evolution of travel along the 35th
Transportation
parallel that became Route 66,
located in a restored power plant
Name
Historic Fairbank
Schoolhouse
Hilltop Gallery
Henry Hauser
Museum
Heard Museum
Location
Fairbank
Nogales
Sierra Vista
Phoenix
Region
Cochise
Southern
School
Southern
Art
Southern
History - Local
Phoenix
Ethnic - Native
area
American
Santa
Cruz
Cochise
Maricopa
Halle Heart
Children's
Tempe
Maricopa
Museum
Hall of Flame Fire
Museum
Phoenix
Area of
County
Maricopa
Phoenix
area
Phoenix
area
study
Website/Summary
Restored one room schoolhouse,
exhibits about the ghost town[5]
website, community art gallery
website, operated by the Sierra
Vista Historical Society
Ancient and contemporary Native
American jewelry, baskets, kachina
dolls, ceramics, clothing and art
website, operated by the American
Medical
Heart Association, biology of the
heart, human body and health
Firefighting equipment, apparatus,
Firefighting
patches, helmets, uniforms,
memorabilia
Includes changing art exhibits in
the Kolb Studio, pioneer history
Grand Canyon
National Park
Grand
Canyon
Village
Coconino
North
Central
exhibits at the Verkamp's Visitor
Multiple
Center, geology exhibits at the
Yavapai Observation Station,
Native American exhibits at
the Tusayan Ruins and Museum
Name
Grace Museum of
America
Glendale Police
Museum
Gleeson Jail
Gilbert Historical
Museum
Location
Cave Creek
Glendale
County
Maricopa
Maricopa
Gleeson
Cochise
Gilbert
Maricopa
Tucson
Pima
Region
Phoenix
area
Area of
Website/Summary
study
Open by appointment only,
History
America's transition from pioneer to
modern life
website, located in the City of
Phoenix
Law
area
enforcement
Southern
Prison
Restored early 20th-century jail
History - Local
website
Phoenix
area
Glendale Public Safety Building
lobby
Gadsden-Pacific
Division Toy Train
Operating
Southern
Railroad
website, model train layouts and
equipment
Museum
Visitor center exhibits about
Fred Lawrence
Whipple
Amado
Observatory
Fort Whipple
Museum
Santa
Cruz
Southern
Science
astronomy and astrophysics,
natural science, and cultural
history, tours of the observatory
Prescott
Yavapai
North
Central
Medical
Medical and military artifacts of the
fort and military hospital
Includes three 1880s period
Fort Verde State
Historic Park
Camp Verde
Yavapai
North
Central
Multiple
historic house museums, exhibits
about the fort, military life, Indian
Scouts and Indian Wars era
Name
Fort Lowell
Museum
Location
Tucson
Area of
Website/Summary
study
Pima
Southern
Military
Society, military life on the Arizona
frontier
Fort
Museum
Huachuca
Historical Museum
Region
Operated by the Arizona Historical
Fort Huachuca
Fort Grant
County
Willcox
History of the US Army in the
Cochise
Southern
Military
Southwest, located at Fort
Huachuca
Graham
Southeast
Military
History of the former 19th-century
fort and current prison
Includes ruins of Fort Bowie, visitor
Fort Bowie
National Historic
center exhibits about the fort and
Bowie
Cochise
Southern
Military
Site
the conflict between
the Chiricahua Apacheand the U.S.
military
website, includes cultural center,
Fort Apache
Historic Park
Fort Apache
Navajo
Northeast
Native
museum, walking tour of the
American
historic district and nearby Kinishba
Ruins
website, part of Eastern Arizona
Discovery Park
Campus
Safford
Graham
Southeast
Science
College, includes an observatory,
exhibits about space, the solar
system and astronomy
Dinnerware
Artspace
Tucson
Pima
Southern
Art
Contemporary art gallery
Name
Location
County
Region
Area of
study
Website/Summary
website, includes Western art,
Desert Caballeros
Western Museum
Wickenburg
Maricopa
Phoenix
American
area
West
cowboy, pioneer and Native
American artifacts, gems and
minerals, period store and home
displays, history dioramas
DeGrazia Gallery
in the Sun Historic
Art gallery and artistic
Tucson
Pima
Southern
Art
District
constructed of Ettore DeGrazia
Located in Deer Valley Road, part
Deer Valley
Petroglyph
Phoenix
Maricopa
Preserve
Cowbelles
Museum
Copper Queen
Mine
Colossal Cave
Mountain Park
Clemenceau
Heritage Museum
manifestation and architectural
Phoenix
area
Archaeology
of Arizona State University,
features Native American rock art
and a petroglyph trail in the desert
Nogales
Bisbee
Vail
Cottonwood
Santa
Cruz
Cochise
Pima
Yavapai
information, contributions of
Southern
History
women in ranching, located in the
Historic 1904 Courthouse
Southern
Southern
North
Central
Mining
History /
Geology
History - Local
Underground tours of the mine
Includes La Posta Quemada
Ranch Museum, Civilian
Conservation Corps Museum
Operated by the Verde Historical
Society
Name
Location
County
Clarkdale
Yavapai
Phoenix
Maricopa
Clarkdale
Historical Society
and Museum
Children's
Museum of
Phoenix
Region
North
Central
Phoenix
area
Area of
study
Website/Summary
History - Local
website
Children's
website
Located in the McCullough-Price
House, changing exhibits on
Chandler Museum
Chandler
Maricopa
Phoenix
area
History - Local
culture, history and art, also
Tumbleweed Ranch featuring a
1917 home, a historic grocery store
and farm equipment
Chandler Center
for the Arts
Center for
Meteorite Studies
Chandler
Maricopa
Tempe
Maricopa
Tucson
Pima
Cave Creek
Maricopa
Phoenix
area
Phoenix
area
Art
Geology
Center for
Creative
Southern
Art
Photography
Cave Creek
Museum
Castle Dome
Mines Museum
and Ghost Town
Castle Dome
Landing
Yuma
Phoenix
area
West
Coast
History - Local
Open air
Includes the Vision Gallery and art
exhibits in the Exhibition Hall
Part of Arizona State University,
collection of meteoriteson display
Part of the University of Arizona,
photography
website, exhibits include pioneers,
mining, Hohokam artifacts
Historic lead mining town and
museum
Name
Casa Malpais
Location
Springerville
County
Region
Apache
Northeast
Coolidge
Pinal
Monument
Canyon de Chelly
National
Monument
Archaeology
Ancient pueblo ruin and museum
with artifacts
Phoenix
area
Multiple
structures built in the 13th century,
visitor center exhibits about the
Hohokam and artifacts
Navajo
Nation
Apache
Camp Verde
Historical Society
Website/Summary
study
Includes ruins of multiple Hohokam
Casa Grande
Ruins National
Area of
Camp Verde
Yavapai
Museum
Northeast
North
Central
Archaeology
History - Local
Ancient pueblo ruin and museum
with artifacts
information
website, 1913 hunting lodge cabin,
Butterfly Lodge
Museum
Greer
Apache
Northeast
Historic house
home to authorJames Willard
Schultz and artist son Hart Merriam
Schultz
Bullion Plaza
Cultural Center &
Miami
Gila
Buckeye
Maricopa
Museum
Buckeye Valley
Museum
Bonelli House
Kingman
Mohave
North
Central
Phoenix
area
West
Coast
History - Local
website
History - Local
[4]
Early 20th century period house,
Historic house
operated by the Mohave County
Historical Society
Name
Bisbee Mining &
Historical Museum
Bird Cage Theatre
Location
Region
Bisbee
Cochise
Southern
Multiple
Tombstone
Cochise
Southern
History
Tempe
Maricopa
Phoenix
Hall of fame -
Arizona State University athletes,
area
Sports
coaches, teams, memorabilia[3]
Bill and Judy
Schaefer Sports
Area of
County
Hall of Fame
Website/Summary
study
website, local history, copper
mining
1880s theater, saloon, gambling
parlor and brothel
website, includes partially
Besh-Ba-Gowah
Archaeological
Globe
Gila
Park
North
Central
reconstructed Salado pueblo
Archaeology
village with a museum displaying
artifacts from excavations on the
site
website, operated by the San
Benson Museum
Benson
Cochise
Southern
History - Local
Pedro Valley Arts and Historical
Society
Barbara Anderson
Girl Scout
Phoenix
Maricopa
Museum
Phoenix
area
website, tours by appointment, Girl
Scouting
Scout uniforms, handbooks, photos
and memorabilia from 1912 on
Operated by Arizona State
ASU West
ArtSpace
Glendale
Maricopa
Phoenix
area
University, hosts a variety of
Art
interdisciplinary and experimental
artistic works, from visual to
performance and installation art[3]
Name
Location
County
Region
Area of
study
Website/Summary
Operated by Arizona State
ASU Galleries
Tempe
Maricopa
Phoenix
area
University includes the Step
Art
Gallery, Northlight Gallery, Gallery
100, Harry Wood Gallery, Hispanic
Research Center Art Gallery[3]
Asarco Mineral
Discovery Center
website, Asarco copper mining,
Sahuarita
Pima
Southern
Mining
mining history of Arizona and the
Western United States
Combined zoo, natural history
Arizona-Sonora
Desert Museum
Tucson
Pima
Southern
Natural history
museum and botanical garden,
features plants, animals, minerals
and fossils of the Sonoran Desert
website, aircraft include bombers,
Arizona Wing
Commemorative
Mesa
Maricopa
Air Force Museum
Arizona Street
Railway Museum
Phoenix
Maricopa
Museum
sub hunters, fighters, attackers,
escorts, trainers, gliders, cargo,
Phoenix
area
Transportation
Restored trolley cars
Contemporary art, new media,
Tempe
Maricopa
Museum
Arizona State
area
Aviation
utility and other
Arizona State
University Art
Phoenix
Phoenix
area
Art
ceramics and other crafts, prints,
art from Arizona and the Southwest
and art of the Americas
Tucson
Pima
Southern
Ethnic - Native
American
Includes Southwest Indian pottery,
artifacts, exhibits of religion and
culture
Name
Arizona Science
Center
Arizona Rangers
Museum
Arizona Railway
Museum
Arizona Museum
of Natural History
Location
Phoenix
Nogales
Chandler
Mesa
County
Maricopa
Santa
Cruz
Maricopa
Maricopa
Region
Phoenix
area
Area of
Website/Summary
study
Science
Located in Historic Heritage
Square
website, history of the Arizona
Southern
Military
Rangers, located in the Historic
1904 Courthouse
Phoenix
area
Phoenix
area
Railroad
Closed in summer, collection
railroad rolling stock and artifacts
Dinosaurs, Native Americans,
Natural history
ancient cultures of Mexico and the
Hohokam, Mars
website, located at Papago
Arizona Military
Museum
Phoenix
Maricopa
Phoenix
area
Park Military Reservation, operated
Military
by the Arizona National Guard
Historical Society, Arizona's
military history
Operated by the Arizona Historical
Arizona History
Museum
Tucson
Pima
Southern
History - Local
Society, southern Arizona history
from Spanish colonial through
territorial eras
Arizona Historical
Society Pioneer
Museum
Flagstaff
Coconino
North
Central
History - Local
Flagstaff and northern Arizona
history
Name
Location
County
Arizona Historical
Society Museum
Tempe
Maricopa
at Papago Park
Region
Phoenix
area
Area of
study
Central Arizona’s history with
History - Local
special emphasis on the 20th
Century
Exhibits include early Tucson
Arizona Historical
Society Downtown
Website/Summary
Tucson
Pima
Southern
History - Local
History Museum
businesses and home displays,
including a drugstore, police and
fire department, and a barbershop
website, located in the Hayden
Library at Arizona State University,
Arizona Historical
Foundation
Tempe
Maricopa
Phoenix
area
History
changing exhibits of historic
documents, photographs and
printed materials from its
collections
Arizona Doll & Toy
Museum
Arizona Capitol
Museum
Glendale
Maricopa
Phoenix
Maricopa
St. Johns
Apache
Phoenix
area
Phoenix
area
Toy
History
Facebook site
Arizona state history, heritage and
culture
Apache County
Historical Society
Northeast
History - Local
website
Museum
Native American archaeology, art,
Amerind Museum
Dragoon
Cochise
Southern
Ethnic - Native
American
history and culture; Fulton-Hayden
Memorial Art Gallery features
paintings by 20th century Anglo
and Native American artists
Name
Ak-Chin Him-Dak
Eco-Museum
Location
County
Maricopa
Pinal
Scottsdale
Maricopa
African American
Multicultural
Museum
Region
Area of
study
Website/Summary
Phoenix
Ethnic - Native
Includes tribal crafts and history of
area
American
the Ak-Chin Indian Community[2]
Phoenix
Ethnic -African
area
American
website
website, includes equipment,
model railroad layout, photographs
and memorabilia, miniature railway
Adobe Mountain
Desert Railroad
Glendale
Maricopa
Park
Phoenix
area
Railroad
rides by the Maricopa Live
Steamers; operated by the
Sahuaro Central Railroad Heritage
Preservation Society, located
inAdobe Dam Regional Park[1]
website, operated by the Oracle
Historical Society, exhibits include
Acadia Ranch
Museum
local cattle ranch, health resort and
Oracle
Pinal
Southern
History - Local
mining histories, prehistoric
artifacts