The Metropolitan Phoenix area is filled with fascinating museums. The Heard Museum is known for its American Indian culture and art exhibits and the Phoenix Art Museum's permanent collection contains more than 13,000 objects.

Pueblo Grande Museum, the Scottsdale Center of the Arts, the Arizona Science Center all house interesting exhibits. Discover the desert at the Desert Botanical Garden, visit the Phoenix Zoo, explore the environment at Biosphere - all these, plus many more attractions will provide hours of fun.

Adobe Mountain Railroad Museum & Desert Railroad
Archaeological Research Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Arizona Capitol Museum Children and adults can explore Arizona's early residents and significant events at exhibits at the Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park, the Heard Museum, the Arizona Capitol Museum and Arizona Historical Society museums
Arizona Doll & Toy Museum
Adobe Mountain Railroad Museum & Desert Railroad
Arizona Historical Foundation
Arizona Historical Society
Arizona Mining & Mineral Museum
Arizona Museum for Youth, Mesa, AZ
American Museum of Nursing
Arizona Science Center, Phoenix, AZ
Arizona State University Art Museum
Arizona State University 1907 Archive Gallery
Arizona State University Museum of Anthropology
Arizona Street Railway Museum
The Bead Museum
Boyce Thompson Arboretum
Buckeye Valley Museum
Butterfly Lodge Museum
Casa Grande Valley Historical Society
Cave Creek Museum
Champlin Fighter Aircraft Museum
Chandler Museum
Deer Valley Rock Art Center, Phoenix, Arizona
Desert Botanical Garden
Desert Caballeros Western Museum
The Fleischer Museum
Fleischer Museum of American and Russian Impressionism
George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center
Glendale Arizona Historical Society
Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona
Heard Museum North
Manistee Ranch
Sahuaro Ranch
Glendale Community College Art Collection
Hall of Flame
Halle Heart Center at the American Heart Association

The Heard Museum emphasizes Southwestern cultures and has collections of American Indian fine art from throughout North America, including drawings, paintings and sculpture.
Archaeologists have dated nomadic hunters in the Southwest back at least 11,000 years.

They exhibit Indian footwear at many walks of life.
Heritage Square
Teeter House
Rosson House
The Medical Museum
Mesa Historical Museum
Mesa Southwest Museum
Sirrine House
Phoenix Art Museum
Phoenix Museum of History
Phoenix Police Museum
Pioneer Arizona Living History Museum
Pueblo Grande Museum Located on 1,500-year-old Hohokam village ruins in modern Phoenix, the Pueblo Grande Museum features an 800-year-old platform mound possibly used by the Hohokam for ceremonies or as an administrative center, an excavated ball court and full-scale reproductions of prehistoric Hohokam homes.
Sahuaro Ranch Foundation
Scottsdale Historical Museum
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Shemer Art Center
Sky Harbor Art Program
SRP Heritage History Center
Sunnyslope Historical Society
Superior Historical Society, Inc., Bob Jones Museum
Sylvia Plotkin Judaica Museum
Telephone Pioneer Museum
Arizona State University Art Museum
Tempe Historical Society
Petersen House Museum
Tempe Historical Museum
Niels Peterson House Museum
West Valley Art Museum
Wells Fargo
Museum of Geology
History of Pharmacy Museum
Museum of Astrogeology at Meteor Crater

There are Festivals galore! This is a fun place!

Visitors' Hotline (602) 252-5588.