AZ Heritage Center at Papago Park
A museum that concentrates on Arizona's history in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Museum
- Destination
- Tempe
- County
- Maricopa County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 24.2 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- No data
- Significance score
- 55.0
- Confidence
- low
Visiting
- Official website
- arizonahistoricalsociety.org(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 33.4425, -111.9330
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12
Where it is
AZ Heritage Center at Papago Park is a museum near Tempe, in Maricopa County. It is one of the museums in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
This place scores 24.2 out of 100, at low confidence. No official visitor count is published for it, so the score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page.
Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.
Sources
- Description: Wikivoyage(opens in a new tab), used under CC BY-SA 4.0(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates and designations: Wikivoyage(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
- Official site: http://www.arizonahistoricalsociety.org/museums/tempe/(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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