Heard Museum

Rank in Arizona: #207of 727 ranked
Overall score: Score 45.6 out of 100medium confidence
Category: Museum

The Heard Museum is a private, not-for-profit museum in Phoenix, Arizona, devoted to the advancement of American Indian art. It presents the stories of American Indian people from a first-person perspective, alongside exhibitions of traditional and contemporary work by American Indian artists and by artists influenced by American Indian art. The museum formerly ran two branches: Heard Museum West in Surprise, which closed in 2009, and Heard Museum North Scottsdale, which closed in May 2014. The Phoenix building is designated a Phoenix Point of Pride.

Where it is

Heard Museum is a museum near Phoenix, 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

No official visitor count is published for Heard Museum, so its score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. That is why the medium confidence above is not higher. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page, and every axis is broken out under Facts and sources at the foot of this page.

Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.

Sources

Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
Coordinates and designations: Wikidata(opens in a new tab)
County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
Official site: http://www.heard.org/(opens in a new tab)

Record last verified 2026-08-12.

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