Museum of Indigenous People (formerly Smoki Museum of American Indian Art and Culture)

The Museum of Indigenous People, formerly the Smoki Museum of American Indian Art and Culture, is a museum in Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona, with rotating exhibits on the history and culture of regional Native American tribes. The Smoki name was invented by local settlers, not by Native people, for a fictitious tribe whose members staged annual shows imitating Hopi rituals. The museum's archaeological collection grew out of that group, and the museum was founded in 1935.

Where it is

Museum of Indigenous People (formerly Smoki Museum of American Indian Art and Culture) is a museum near Prescott, in Yavapai 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 Museum of Indigenous People (formerly Smoki Museum of American Indian Art and Culture), 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 low 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

• 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.museumofindigenouspeople.org/(opens in a new tab)

Record last verified 2026-08-12.