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Arizona Museum of Natural History
A museum in Mesa exhibiting the natural and cultural history of the South-West, and the only natural history museum in greater Phoenix.
Mesa Arts Center
A performing and visual arts complex in downtown Mesa, completed in 2005 at a cost of $95 million and the largest in the state.
- Rank in Arizona
- #413of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 37.6 out of 100medium confidence
- Category
- Museum
The Mesa Arts Center is a performing and visual arts complex in downtown Mesa, Arizona. Completed in 2005 at a cost of $95 million, and covering more than 210,000 square feet (20,000 m2), it is the largest comprehensive arts campus in the state. It holds four performance venues, from the 99-seat Farnsworth Studio Theater to the 1,600-seat Ikeda Theater, and 14 classroom studios for the visual and performing arts. The Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, based at the centre, has five galleries with 5,500 square feet (510 m2) of exhibition space. Multi-use areas across the campus provide indoor and outdoor space for gatherings and presentations, and the site includes contemporary public art.
Where it is
Mesa Arts Center is a museum near Mesa, 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 Mesa Arts Center, 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: Wikivoyage(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
- Official site: https://www.mesaartscenter.com/(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Museum
- Destination
- Mesa
- County
- Maricopa County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 37.6 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 16.8
- Significance score
- 55.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Official website
- mesaartscenter.com(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 33.4144, -111.8305
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12