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If you're a history buff, art aficionado, archaeology fiend, or dabbler in the sciences, our museum picks are perfect for a rainy day or afternoon excursion! Our selections center around notable collections of historical and cultural items. Many have excellent rotating displays in addition to exceptional permanent collections.
Category: Museums - Tucson Attractions & Activities
Address: 2100 N Amerind Rd, Dragoon, AZ 85609
The name "Amerind," a contraction of American Indian, illustrates the purpose of this Foundation, which is devoted to the study of Native American cultures. Located an hour's drive from Tucson in the rural and beautiful southeastern corner of Arizona, the research facility and museum focus on American Indian history. Here you can view some of the...
Arizona Historical Society Museum
Category: Museums - Tucson Attractions & Activities
Address: 949 E 2nd St, Tucson Main Museum, Tucson, AZ 85719
The Arizona Historical Society's museum adjacent to the University of Arizona campus offers information about the development of Arizona from the first arrival of Europeans in 1540 through the times under Spain and Mexico, to territorial Arizona in the 1800s and beyond. Branch museums at Fort Lowell on the east side, and at the...
Category: Museums - Tucson Attractions & Activities
Address: 1013 E University Blvd, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
Since 1893, the Arizona State Museum has been collecting, preserving, researching and interpreting the cultures of the Greater Southwest, including Arizona and northern Mexico. It is the oldest and largest anthropological museum in the region, was one of the very first departments at the University of Arizona, and houses absolutely vast...
Center for Creative Photography
Category: Museums - Tucson Attractions & Activities
Address: 1030 N Olive Rd, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0103
A major addition to the arts complex at the University of Arizona, the Center for Creative Photography was conceived by Ansel Adams and is now the chief repository for his work. The photograph collection of the Center is one of the finest and largest in the world, with more than 60,000 photographs. Although the collection's main strength is...
Category: Museums - Tucson Attractions & Activities
Address: 4800 W Gates Pass Rd, Tucson, AZ 85745
It may seem a bit unorthodox these days to center a museum around a collection of stuffed and preserved animals and insects, but this one actually succeeds. Starting with the holdings of numerous educational institutions and individuals, the curators here have developed an engaging, hands-on learning experience. True, the taxidermists' craft is...
Category: Museums - Tucson Attractions & Activities
Address: 6000 E Valencia Rd, Tucson, AZ 85706
Aviation buffs, this one's for you. The Museum opened to the public in May, 1976, with 75 aircraft on display. Since then the collection has grown to over 250 aircraft occupying 80 acres of land. The entire museum property covers about 150 acres. One plane of interest is the Lockheed Tristar, used by John Kennedy as Air Force One on short flights...
Category: Museums - Tucson Attractions & Activities
Address: 3861 N Oracle Rd, Tucson, AZ 85705
Although the T Rex Museum definitely strives to entertain and educate the under-12 set, there are plenty of adults who will find it engaging. The private museum is packed with cool stuff – fossils, dino replicas, displays of live insects and reptiles (for perspective), hands-on exhibits, and activities. At the end, venture in to the Paleo Pits...
Category: Museums - Tucson Attractions & Activities
Address: 200 S 6th Ave, Tucson, AZ 85702-2609
This Tucson institution is brimming with fun learning activities that cover several topics. The Dinosaur World exhibits make this the perfect companion to the T Rex Museum for your little paleontologist. If you have a budding train engineer or firefighter on your hands, they'll love being able to dress up like their heroes and role play. Young...
University of Arizona Museum of Art
Category: Museums - Tucson Attractions & Activities
Address: 1031 N Olive Rd, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
The University of Arizona Art Museum's collection is wide-ranging and impressive, to say the least. From 15th century Spanish master Fernando Gallego to European renaissance paintings to modern masters such as Pollock, O'Keeffe and Kandinsky, there are pieces here that will appeal to virtually everyone. Other artists represented in the collection...
University of Arizona Poetry Center
Category: Museums - Tucson Attractions & Activities
Address: 1600 E 1st St, Tucson, AZ 85721
The remarkable collection at this campus library/museum includes multiple titles for most of the major poets of the 20th century: Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Lowell, Marianne Moore and numerous others. The Poetry Center also holds photographs, records, audiotapes, and CDs,...
