Museums in Phoenix
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If you’re looking for a place to buy an action figure, McFarlane, located at Westgate in Glendale, is it. That is assuming that you’re not interested in child-friendly toys like My Little Pony (though they have that, too) and are interested in life-like action figures of American soldiers or a bound, blindfolded and buxom S&M […]
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This privately-funded museum located in North Scottsdale opened in April 2010 and totally delivered on the hype preceding it. It’s a beautiful, open and inviting space with a contemporary Southwestern vibe and their collection of more than 15,000 instruments includes examples of musical artifacts from nearly every nation on the globe. The best part about […]
There are a lot of nice cars in Scottsdale, that’s for sure. But there’s only one place where you can oogle the goods of the most winning cars in the history of racing. In case you’re not a racing fan the aforementioned “winners” refers to the Penske Racing Team, which has in fact been awarded […]
If you’re a responsible traveler you probably arrive at Sky Harbor Airport more than two hours before your flight. Good for you, you won’t have to run to your gate. That also means you have time to check out the Phoenix Airport Museum before you board your plane. The airport’s collection of art includes almost […]
Located on the Central Avenue Corridor, a historic strip of Downtown Phoenix, the Phoenix Art Museum offers plenty to see for art aficionados and amateurs alike. It’s the largest museum for visual art in the Southwest and offers 285,000-square-foot of collections that include more than 17,000 works of American, Asian, European, Latin American, Western American, […]
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Exhibits about Valley law enforcement, circa 1881 to the present.
Located in Tucson, the Pima Air and Space Museum houses a collection of more than 300 air and space crafts. It’s one of the largest air and space museums in the world and the largest non-government funded aviation museum. Many of the crafts on display carry historical and technological significance and the museum is also […]
“The Hohokam: The Land and the People,” the museum’s main exhibit, has recently reopened in a new gallery space. Other standing installations include artifacts excavated at the site — a Hohokam ruin — in 1925, plus archaeological site maps and reconstruction drawings.
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We can all thank Martha Shemer, a longtime Phoenix resident, for this picturesque art museum. Built in the 1920s the stucco home was purchased by Shemer in 1984 at which time she donated the property at no cost to the City of Phoenix. The only condition was that she wanted it to used to house […]
Displayed in the museum’s main gallery are videos, spinner games and other interactive exhibits on the history of Tempe.